Un avion de US Airways heurte un coyote à l'atterrissage
Medford (Oregon/USA) - Un avion de la compagnie aérienne régionale américaine Mesa Airlines, qui effectuait un vol pour le compte de la compagnie aérienne US Airways (US Airways Express) a heurté un coyote quelques instants après son atterrissage sur l'aéroport international de Medford (Oregon).
L'avion, un Bombardier Regional Jet CRJ200, vol ASH2866, qui venait d'effectuer la liaison entre l'aéroport international McCarran de Las Vegas (Nevada) et l'aéroport international Rogue Valley de Medford, venait de se poser, vers 2h00 du matin, heure locale, lorsque les pilotes ont noté avoir heurté un animal lors de la course de décelleration. Les pilotes n'ont pas eu de problèmes à contrôler l'appareil jusqu'à l'arrêt total.
Il n'y a pas eu de blessé hormis le coyote qui a été retrouvé, mortellement blessé, gisant sur la piste. Sans doute l'animal devait être en train de chasser les lapins qui pullulent sur les aéroports et n'a pas vu l'avion arriver, perturbé par les mauvaises conditions atmosphériques qui régnaient cette nuit-là.
J'ai du déjà vous le dire mais a TUS on voit des coyotes de temps en temps sur les pistes. L'année dernière il y a meme eu un ours noir, du coup il y a eu un article dans le journal.
manuel d'exploitation du Coyote, était il en respect avec les procédures pour mouvement au sol ?
It's an eternal battle of need versus speed, aggravation versus acceleration.
Rule 1: Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going "Beep! Beep!"
Rule 2: No outside force can harm the Coyote -- only his own ineptitude or the failure of Acme products.
Wile E.'s ineptitude, possibly a by-product of his distracted obsession with catching Road Runner, is compounded only by the Acme company's products - which may work for other customers, but seem never to work for Wile E., who repeatedly risks life and limb counting on their effectiveness. In Operation: Rabbit, for example, Wile E. constructs an elaborate Acme-manufactured contraption guaranteed to catch Bugs Bunny. Inevitably, the apparatus fails and Wile E. is defeated once again.
Rule 3: The Coyote could stop anytime -- IF he was not a fanatic.
(Repeat: "A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim." - George Santayana) Of course he can't quit; he's certain that the next attempt is sure to succeed. He's the personality type that twelve-step programs are made for. Of course, first you have to want to quit.
Rule 4: No dialogue ever, except "Beep! Beep!"
Oh, and the occasional dialog sign that comes in handy just as Wile E. realizes that his efforts are going to bring him nothing but big pain.
Rule 5: Road Runner must stay on the road - for no other reason than that he's a roadrunner.
Rule 6: All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters -- the southwest American desert.
That's because there's everything you need for a funny cartoon in one place: winding roads, peaks, canyons, cacti, and boulders, all of which defy conventional physics. In Chuck Jones' classic There They Go-Go-Go!, the starving Wile E. resorts to creating a chicken out of the desert mud. When the speedy Road Runner whizzes by, friction causes the road and Wile E.'s feet to catch on fire, sending the coyote into a frantic craze, in which he attempts to capture his prey with a rope, a sling-shot, a rotating circle of spiked balls, a booby-trapped ladder, and a pile of rocks.
Rule 7: All tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme Corporation. Talk about the first real example of "branding" in American commerce! Of course, not even an Acme brand Burmese tiger trap, an Acme brand steel wall, or Acme brand muscle-building vitamins can help Wile E. catch-up to the supersonic Road Runner in Stop! Look! Hasten!
Rule 8: Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote's greatest enemy.
Another Chuck Jones' classic, Scrambled Aches, has Wile E. watering a rock in order to grow it to boulder-size so he can crush Road Runner flat in his tracks. In true Wile E. style, the rock expands just as the tottering coyote lifts it over his head, letting gravity take its course. It's the law, you know.
Rule 9: The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.
Easy for you to say.
Rule 10: The audience's sympathy must remain with the Coyote.
From Beep, Beep to Zipping Along to Freeze Frame, and despite his constant failure, fans continue to love Wile E. Coyote and his always one-step-ahead costar, Road Runner.
captain Keskildi and hisse (burp) crue welcommme yu aboard this flight to Bordeaux, hic.... free drinks will be served JUST after takeoff, purser, I'll have a scotch please
mdrr! (au fait, il y a des coyotes a cote de ma maison en Illinois, je les entends l'ete; un petit chien a failli etre tue par un coyote ce soir--vu sur les nouvelles)
Ca tombe bien..car bien avant d'avoir lu ce post (01:05HL du 11Jan) j'etais montee au post du 747-400 CGO juste arrive a ORD.
L'equipage etait tres occupe avec leur check-list apres l'arrivee et ne savait meme pas que j'etais derriere eux (et elle!)
Apres qqs minutes, j'ai fait a haute voix "BEEP-BEEP"!! **
Ca a marche, ils se sont retournes vers moi, de gros sourires, car tout le monde reconnait ce "BEEP-BEEP".
ATIS ORD "Attn--opslady apercue sur des TWYS fret..perdue"
**je vais grandir un jour..mais c'est pas pour demain
L'humour n'est pas incompatible avec la competence.
(Old Irish Proverb, circa 1999)
