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Post by PhantomWolf on Mar 8, 2007 16:25:11 GMT -4
and was getting ready to land in Latrobe under order from air traffic control.
Interesting you bolded this, so was the crew of the Falcon before they were told to go and look.
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Post by feelfree222 on Mar 8, 2007 17:33:52 GMT -4
Nomuse might not have been correct but he was closer to the truth than you who expected all the planes to have been on the ground in minutes, after an hour many planes were still in the air. I never said all the planes would be on the ground in minutes. I was talking about 2 minutes for safely clear a runway ready for another plane to land. Edited to add (I expected whitout saying it that it would take about 1 hour 15 minutes for landing all the planes based on my approximation and the number of available airports in the US territory)
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Post by feelfree222 on Mar 8, 2007 17:36:35 GMT -4
and was getting ready to land in Latrobe under order from air traffic control.Interesting you bolded this, so was the crew of the Falcon before they were told to go and look. But as I said if it was on a search mission (thing i do not know when I posted)that solve the problem. The other discussion was about the time needed to land all these planes over the US territory and was not linked directly to the Falcon jet.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Mar 8, 2007 18:21:49 GMT -4
The other discussion was about the time needed to land all these planes over the US territory and was not linked directly to the Falcon jet.
Well that answer to that appears to be several hours.
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Post by feelfree222 on Mar 9, 2007 0:22:28 GMT -4
The other discussion was about the time needed to land all these planes over the US territory and was not linked directly to the Falcon jet.Well that answer to that appears to be several hours. Any reference about that? Because I cited a reference in a previous post about 75 % of the planes have landed inside 60 minutes
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Post by PhantomWolf on Mar 9, 2007 5:32:33 GMT -4
Any reference about that? Because I cited a reference in a previous post about 75 % of the planes have landed inside 60 minutes
It was a rough guessimate that the last ones would have been down within a couple of hours. Based on the figure on the previous page, probably about an hour and a half.
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Post by scooter on Mar 9, 2007 12:04:07 GMT -4
A thinkabout... Some of the flights may have been very heavy on fuel, such as a London-LAX flight approaching Gander. They would need to burn off fuel or dump a bunch (if they can still do that)...holding to "adjust gross weight" takes a long time. Most transoceanic tracks enter North America in Canada, so Canadian airports capable of handling and servicing heavies were the logical choice...and while Canada has very many airports, those so capable are indeed limited. Our friends to the North put on one hell of a show that day, they really opened the doors for all the sudden "refugees"...real proud of them.
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Post by feelfree222 on Mar 9, 2007 17:27:36 GMT -4
Any reference about that? Because I cited a reference in a previous post about 75 % of the planes have landed inside 60 minutesIt was a rough guessimate that the last ones would have been down within a couple of hours. Based on the figure on the previous page, probably about an hour and a half. I have figured about 1 hour 15 minutes before knowing the figure on the previous page. « Reply #166 Nomuse might not have been correct but he was closer to the truth than you who expected all the planes to have been on the ground in minutes, after an hour many planes were still in the air. I never said all the planes would be on the ground in minutes. I was talking about 2 minutes for safely clear a runway ready for another plane to land. Edited to add (I expected whitout saying it that it would take about 1 hour 15 minutes for landing all the planes based on my approximation and the number of available airports in the US territory)
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