>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhZwsYtNDE
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>It never ceases to amaze me that whenever something like this happens, there's almost always someone who has photos, videos etc. I guess it's the enthusiasts who hang around airports day in/day out.
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>I think the real achievement in aviation and engineering is not that a aircraft weighing hundreds of tons can jump off a runway and fly through the air, but that's it's done thousands of times each day

So how come any time I'm going to have to fly somewhere, the newspapers print nothing for the 2 weeks prior to my take-off than air crash stories? Pages upon pages of them. ;)

> and is completely routine. A bird strike/engine failure during takeoff (especially with a twinjet) is one of the most serious emergency scenarios, but these guys make it sound just like another day at the office. My hat's off to them.

9KhZwsYtNDE