A nearly five-month-old Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner at Frankfurt, preparing for a flight to Los Angeles, experienced a nose landing gear collapse at the gate.
A U.S. Coast Guard C-130 from Air Station Clearwater performs a precision low-pass message drop. These aircraft can also deliver life rafts, medical supplies, survival gear, dewatering pumps, flares, and other emergency equipment to vessels in distress.
📹: theeducatedcaptain
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard a story like this. It’s probably a lot more common that people retain things in their hands that are useless in that moment of fight or flight than we may grasp.
Our ability to logic everything out in that kind of moment kind of goes out the door, I guess.