Keep Fido on a lead!

[ozzy72]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8100209.stm

[specter177]

Honestly, I would have just run over the dog than possibly crash a 20 million dollar airplane.

[Fozzer]

..looks like it trashed its right-hand Turbo-Prop engine...!

.....expensive manoeuvre...to avoid a Dog!

Paul... 8-)...!

[beaky]

Weird- it doesn't look like the dog was really in the way at all...?

At any rate, a pro should know that whether it's a deer, a dog, or your own Gramma on the runway... to protect the lives of those on board, you have to just keep going. Might damage the plane but you will more likely maintain control.

[specter177]

Weird- it doesn't look like the dog was really in the way at all...?

At any rate, a pro should know that whether it's a deer, a dog, or your own Gramma on the runway... to protect the lives of those on board, you have to just keep going. Might damage the plane but you will more likely maintain control.

Well, I would stop if was my own Gramma, because in this case, no one was injured.

[Brett_Henderson]

It might be expertise after the fact.. as in, I know people react in strange ways to the unexpected.. and the very same pilot might have handled it differently, on a different day...

[beaky]

Weird- it doesn't look like the dog was really in the way at all...?

At any rate, a pro should know that whether it's a deer, a dog, or your own Gramma on the runway... to protect the lives of those on board, you have to just keep going. Might damage the plane but you will more likely maintain control.

Well, I would stop if was my own Gramma, because in this case, no one was injured.

But when you start skidding off the runway, you don't know that... had they gone left, instead of right, and the left engine got trashed, that prop assembly would have "walked" into the fuselage, not away from it...

[Brett_Henderson]

That's the funny thing.. and the reflex to training is so true.. you just "know" when you've got a good chunk of airspeed going, that the brakes are useless (they'll lock easily when the wings are taking weight off of them)...