Dixie Chicks aircraft in scare

[tinnypriv]

EDITED:

Dixie Chicks aircraft in scare

An aircraft carrying the American country rock band the Dixie Chicks has been involved in an accident at Glasgow Airport.
The wing of the twin-engined jet carrying them from a concert in Dublin struck an airport building while taxi-ing to its parking slot.

No-one was hurt in the incident and an investigation has been launched.

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The Dixie Chicks were due to play a sell-out concert at Glasgow's Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.

There were believed to have been 16 passengers and crew on board the aircraft.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3123792.stm

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Please form a line for the tin foil hats... (n/t)

[wryter2000]

2. Oh, man

I don't even want to contemplate the celebrations over at freeperville. I hope they're okay.

[flamingyouth]

3. On a small plane

Oh, merciful heavens. I cannot believe this...

[CMT]

4. this is terrible

they are all mothers too I think.

[htuttle]

5. Were they airborne?

Or on the ground at the time?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Exactly.

[Chico Man]

9. Good question

It's safe to assume the plane was landing (since they are scheduled to play..).. whether it was on the ground and taxiing to the gate or it was a crash landing will answer a lot of questions.

[pschoeb]

7. Seems like a minor accident

They should be OK

The wing of a twin-engined jet carrying them from a concert in Dublin struck an airport building while taxi-ing to its parking slot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3123792.stm

Patrick Schoeb

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. Exactly.

[alphafemale]

12. whew

Talk about an emotional roller coaster. THank's folks. That was one hell of a ride.

[Enraged_Ape]

8. OMFG

This has just gone beyond crazy. My tinfoil hat is now a nickel-plated Stetson.

[truthisfreedom]

10. let's hope they were on the ground, just rolling, with bad brakes or

something. or a chock wasn't place properly and they simply rolled into a building. let us hope.

[qb]

13. What kind of tabloid crap is this skynews outfit?

A minor mishap on the ground and they call it a "Jet Crash"???

[playahata1]

16. CONSIDER THE SOURCE.

Sky is a RUPERT MURDOCH outlet. The British version of FAUX News.

[tinnypriv]

17. Murdoch sensationalism I'm afraid

They were first with the story tho'.

[qb]

20. I'll bet the Freepers are just as pissed as we are -

got their hopes up for nothing.

[TrogL]

22. Freepers behaving themselves

(except for a couple of Wellstone digs)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/985680/posts

[RummyTheDummy]

24. I love how they're feigning concern and prayers....

When in reality they'd ALL LOVE to see the Dixie Chicks splattered across some corn field somewhere. I don't buy the care and concern bullshit for a nanosecond.

[JI7]

14. gave me a big scare reading this

so glad they are ok.

[MostlyBlackCat2]

15. Doesn't ANYONE here ever read the actual story??!!

"The wing of the twin-engined jet carrying them from a concert in Dublin struck an airport building while taxi-ing to its parking slot.

No-one was hurt in the incident and an investigation has been launched."

sorry for yelling. just seems like even many DUers have stopped thinking or looking at the evidence and are going off lately.

pouring myself some tea. deep breathing exercises now.

[VelmaD]

18. Yes we read it...

but the post was edited. The original story people were responding to had much less detail.

Darth Velma

[truthisfreedom]

19. the original posting had a link to a 3-line story which had no details.

the new story has all the details.

[Aristus]

21. It's too frickin' bad that Sky News is a Murdoch whore-house.

I was in love with one of their anchors a while back. Penny Somebody-or-other.

I'm SO glad the Chicks are safe.

[birdman]

23. Foil hatters

Leave woodwork immediately.

Begin rounding up usual suspects.

:tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat:

[Bake]

25. Limpnuts was "reporting" it breathlessly to the "20 million"

Then he had to "report" 15 minutes later that nobody was hurt. According to my wife, who heard it on the radio, Pigboy sounded quite disappointed.

May Limpnuts and his dittoheads burn forever in hell.

Bake

[tsipple]

26. Taxiing is Actually Hard

It seems strange, but plenty of aircraft accidents and incidents occur on the ground. Most are minor. It's the rough equivalent of automobile fender benders.

I was a student pilot aboard a four seat Cessna a few years ago, and I was sitting still with the brakes full on, waiting for another aircraft to pass. That aircraft (another Cessna) decided to run into me. The bottom edge of his left wing dug a groove into the top side of my left wing. Totally his fault, and fortunately it wasn't a huge repair bill.

Taxiing is surprisingly difficult, because an airplane is a rather awkward object to move on the ground. It's sometimes a problem to conceptualize the space it occupies. It certainly doesn't drive like a car on the ground.

I also got to see an airplane (yet another four seat Cessna) flip over, tail over nose, in high (~40 mph) winds. Everybody was OK, but the plane had a fair amount of damage.

No one really cares about bending metal in the end. Human life is the valuable part. I'd gladly give up the whole airplane if it meant walking away safe.