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Ocean Landing episode

posted 8 years ago by 0DegreesKelvin
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Watching this episode now. Gotta give credit to Captain Leul Abate. The man had some serious guts to give it to the hijackers straight, as well as making the announcement to take on the hijackers. On top of that, gliding the plane down thousands of feet at 230 mph and making that water landing as well as he did, this man is definitely a hero. Major respect for the Captain. Too bad so many people drowned because they prematurely inflated their life jackets.

[–] jefgg 8 years ago

Despite the heroic actions of Captain Leul Abate and co-pilot Yonas Mekuria, 125 of the 175 passengers and crew members were killed.

I thought the hijackers were incredibly stupid for assuming that a plane flying from Addis Ababa to Nairobi had enough fuel to fly to Australia.