Power Outage Montogomery County

[Anonymous]

The story doesn't get any less fraught. That fog = not good.

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Anonymous wrote:They haven’t been rescued. They’ll need to shut down the power to the lines first. Can’t believe they’ve been hanging there 3 hours. They must be cold.

Poor them. Just like the people whose houses now have no heat thanks to them knocking out the power. Or the patients that can't go to the MedStar Montgomery ER because it's on "mini disaster" mode.

So I agree that this situation is inconvenient for a lot of people, but....

It is 50 degrees outside. Nobody who would otherwise have heat is freezing. Nobody is unable to get medical treatment.
I could be interpreting you wrong, but are you blaming the people in that plane?

Yes. Occam's razor from the flight path suggests that the pilot screwed up the landing approach and came in too low which took him into a power line. The pilot is easy to find on Google since they released the registration number. He has previous form for crashing a plane in the '90s due to (wait for it) flying too low.

Well how old is this dude now?

In his 60s.

The dude is 65, an arrogant lawyer-type who looks in his Twitter pic like he thinks he's hot shit. Had a 66-year-old Grandma as a passenger.

Well, another lawyer famously crashed his plane into the ocean 20-some years ago. But no one was inconvenienced back then, save for the rescue crews..

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They haven’t been rescued. They’ll need to shut down the power to the lines first. Can’t believe they’ve been hanging there 3 hours. They must be cold.

Poor them. Just like the people whose houses now have no heat thanks to them knocking out the power. Or the patients that can't go to the MedStar Montgomery ER because it's on "mini disaster" mode.

So I agree that this situation is inconvenient for a lot of people, but....

It is 50 degrees outside. Nobody who would otherwise have heat is freezing. Nobody is unable to get medical treatment.
I could be interpreting you wrong, but are you blaming the people in that plane?

Yes. Occam's razor from the flight path suggests that the pilot screwed up the landing approach and came in too low which took him into a power line. The pilot is easy to find on Google since they released the registration number. He has previous form for crashing a plane in the '90s due to (wait for it) flying too low.

Well how old is this dude now?

In his 60s.

The dude is 65, an arrogant lawyer-type who looks in his Twitter pic like he thinks he's hot shit. Had a 66-year-old Grandma as a passenger.

Well, another lawyer famously crashed his plane into the ocean 20-some years ago. But no one was inconvenienced back then, save for the rescue crews..

Link?

Also, isn't it interesting that many large corporations have mandatory retirement dates...64/65 and yet we let this guy fly a death machine?

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Anonymous wrote:They haven’t been rescued. They’ll need to shut down the power to the lines first. Can’t believe they’ve been hanging there 3 hours. They must be cold.

Poor them. Just like the people whose houses now have no heat thanks to them knocking out the power. Or the patients that can't go to the MedStar Montgomery ER because it's on "mini disaster" mode.

So I agree that this situation is inconvenient for a lot of people, but....

It is 50 degrees outside. Nobody who would otherwise have heat is freezing. Nobody is unable to get medical treatment.
I could be interpreting you wrong, but are you blaming the people in that plane?

Yes. Occam's razor from the flight path suggests that the pilot screwed up the landing approach and came in too low which took him into a power line. The pilot is easy to find on Google since they released the registration number. He has previous form for crashing a plane in the '90s due to (wait for it) flying too low.

Well how old is this dude now?

In his 60s.

The dude is 65, an arrogant lawyer-type who looks in his Twitter pic like he thinks he's hot shit. Had a 66-year-old Grandma as a passenger.

Well, another lawyer famously crashed his plane into the ocean 20-some years ago. But no one was inconvenienced back then, save for the rescue crews..

Why is she a grandma at 66 and he’s an arrogant lawyer type?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plane may be a piper cherokee so this isn’t someone’s first plane nor is it a starter plane like a Cessna 152

It’s a powerful plane, but that can be a rich persons first or 2nd plane - it left out of Westchester, NY, which is known for being wealthy.

The pilot probably got stuck in worse conditions than they anticipated, and either tried to fly under it to the airpark, or was inbound for landing and was way below glide slope.

[Anonymous]

Wait so are they still in the plane?

[Anonymous]

So how many people will sue this pilot for losing all of the food in their refrigerator for losing power for over 4 hours? Assume that pilots have insurance.

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https://twitter.com/PatrickMerkle/

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Anonymous wrote:Wait so are they still in the plane?

Because they have to make sure the power is off.

They have to send people up to test that and ground the lines (IDK what that means but I read it).

They have to secure the plane to the tower before attempting removal.

They have to get the equipment to do these things.


I don't understand the ageism and "sue the pilot" talk. Apparently he crashed where he did to avoid hitting a neighborhood. 65 isn't exactly at death's door. Maybe he was drunk or whatever, but maybe he had a plane malfunction. Isn't that far more likely? Yes, it's irritating to lose power. But these things happen. Have some compassion. Or go to a hotel in VA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/PatrickMerkle/

I;m impressed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait so are they still in the plane?

Yes. They haven’t even begun to rescue them. They must be waiting for the crane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/PatrickMerkle/

Make sure you click over to the tweets and replies page.

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Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/PatrickMerkle/

Make sure you click over to the tweets and replies page.

No, don't y'all. This thread will get locked if we continue down this road.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait so are they still in the plane?

Because they have to make sure the power is off.

They have to send people up to test that and ground the lines (IDK what that means but I read it).

They have to secure the plane to the tower before attempting removal.

They have to get the equipment to do these things.


I don't understand the ageism and "sue the pilot" talk. Apparently he crashed where he did to avoid hitting a neighborhood. 65 isn't exactly at death's door. Maybe he was drunk or whatever, but maybe he had a plane malfunction. Isn't that far more likely? Yes, it's irritating to lose power. But these things happen. Have some compassion. Or go to a hotel in VA.

The bolded - where did you get that?

I’m sympathetic to the pilot and passenger (NP here), but it seems he was flying in conditions he wasn’t prepared for. The weather looked bad all day - and I grew up with a dad who is a private pilot and flew a lot as a kid and college kid. The weather today was not good for a flight.