Plane crashes to avoid dog on runway...

[Ayahuasca]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8100209.stm

My wife once crashed a car because she swerved to avoid a rabbit - this pilot seems to crash his plane to avoid a dog on the runway!

[VxDuncan]

Hardly surprising! I've flown from that airport, and it's very wild west! Was somehow expecting the to be Muruti air not Express air - when I flew with them in papua they shut they started taxiing a couple of seconds after I got on the plane, and most of us hadn't sat down before they took off! Interesting air safety...

[asbo]

Why the hell would he risk the life of his passengers and himself to avoid what is presumeably going to be someone's lunch anyway?

[Flanders.]

I don't think that dog had anything to do with it. There had to be another reason why the pilot done that.

[IforB]

Jesus. Allowing them to exit the aircraft on the same side of the still rotating prop.......... Reminds me why I don;t fly with airlines from "less developed" countries.

I don't think the dog had anything to do with it, looked more like a tyre blowout.

[Nero601]

Flanders. said:

I don't think that dog had anything to do with it. There had to be another reason why the pilot did that.

EFG

[Cpn Jack Spanner]

IforB said:

...Reminds me why I don;t fly with airlines from "less developed" countries.

Like Spain?

[IforB]

They are part of the JAA and EASA. So, Spain should have the same standards as us. PNG is a whole different world.

I trained with a whole bunch of Aussies who'd flown out there for a few years. To say their tales were hair-raising is an understatement of monumental proportions!

[mybrainhurts]

Nero601 said:

Flanders. said:

I don't think that dog had anything to do with it. There had to be another reason why the pilot did that.

EFG

[mybrainhurts]

Nothing to do with the dog...

He was clearly trying a handbrake turn...

[Nickyboy]

Cpn Jack Spanner said:

IforB said:

...Reminds me why I don;t fly with airlines from "less developed" countries.

Like Spain?

[vrb]

mybrainhurts said:

Nothing to do with the dog...

He was clearly trying a handbrake turn...

That's what I thought. There's also a bit of the video missing.

That was also a very big dog!!

[Flanders.]

mybrainhurts said:

Nero601 said:

Flanders. said:

I don't think that dog had anything to do with it. There had to be another reason why the pilot did that.

EFG

[Daisy Duke]

IforB said:

Jesus. Allowing them to exit the aircraft on the same side of the still rotating prop.......... Reminds me why I don;t fly with airlines from "less developed" countries.

Same here, although I've flown with someone in Florida who was quite happy to taxi with the doors open, which I can't see being acceptable here either.

IforB said:

I don't think the dog had anything to do with it, looked more like a tyre blowout.

That's what I thought too.

[Mattygooner]

He looked like he was going for an over take.

[FourWheelDrift]

At least it wasn't a cow, they could really hurt.

Indonesia - http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/01/28/airp...
Nigeria - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4659281.st...
UK - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGYCnowBC2g

Not the same cow.

[JRM]

It had nothing to do with the dog, how stupid are the BBC? Oh hang on....

[JRM]

It had nothing to do with the dog, how stupid are the BBC? Oh hang on....

[FourWheelDrift]

Damn, another BBC repeat.

[Ayahuasca]

JRM said:

It had nothing to do with the dog, how stupid are the BBC? Oh hang on....

In fairness to the BBC, 'Dog runs across runway just before a plane, in a probably unrelated incident, crashes' probably does not make that good a headline.