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'One Brick Short' Runway
When unmarked runway construction goes unreported
Crash of an MC-130H Talon-2 Special Operations plane in Iraq, Dec. 29, 2004
During the week prior to this runway accident, a C-23 Sherpa aircraft flew into this U.S. operated airfield in Iraq during the day and saw there was construction equipment on the runway. Yet there was no NOTAM (Notice To Airmen) posted to warn planes not to follow. A trench was being dug in the runway, and it was not marked. It's a long runway and the C-23 Sherpa landed just beyond the construction. The C-23 crews filed a safety hazard report that was immediately forwarded to higher headquarters and to the Air Force wing based there.
Construction continued, with no NOTAM posting, and on the night of Dec. 29, 2004 this USAF MC-130H Talon-2 Special Operations plane (following pictures, tail number 0012) didn't see the construction. It wound up going through what is now a large pit on the runway.
During the week prior to this runway accident, a C-23 Sherpa aircraft flew into this U.S. operated airfield in Iraq during the day and saw there was construction equipment on the runway. Yet there was no NOTAM (Notice To Airmen) posted to warn planes not to follow. A trench was being dug in the runway, and it was not marked. It's a long runway and the C-23 Sherpa landed just beyond the construction. The C-23 crews filed a safety hazard report that was immediately forwarded to higher headquarters and to the Air Force wing based there.
Construction continued, with no NOTAM posting, and on the night of Dec. 29, 2004 this USAF MC-130H Talon-2 Special Operations plane (following pictures, tail number 0012) didn't see the construction. It wound up going through what is now a large pit on the runway.
Just a small hole in the runway
'One Brick Short' Runway - the 'missing brick'
Hercules after the pit
Unbelievably there were no deaths - just several injuries and lifetime counseling needs for the passengers.
Ironically, this event occurred near the 50th Anniversary for the C-130 Hercules (on August 23, 2004).
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Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
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Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. - Victor Hugo
Music is the poetry of the air. - Jean Paul Richter
There is no flying without wings. - French Proverb
Conference: Hot air on a high level. - Gerald Barzan
Owning a drone does not a pilot make. - Alex Morritt
The only victory over love is flight. - Napoleon Bonaparte
On wings of wind came flying all abroad. - Alexander Pope
To elude by flight is a glorious victory. - Horace
Never eat spinach just before going on the air. - Dan Rather
The rest of the bricks and bracks on the mantle. - Archie Bunker
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. - Lord Kelvin
The press is like the air, a chartered libertine. - William Pitt The Elder
Air Travel: Seeing less and less of more and more. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Flight attendants don't die, they just fly higher. - Unknown
Flight Schedule: An entertaining work of paperback fiction - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I'm not afraid of flying, I'm afraid of not flying. - Unknown
There are bold pilots, and old pilots, but no old bold pilots. - Tom Clancy
Live in the sunshine
Swim in the sea
Drink the wild air - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air. - Johann C. F. von Schiller
We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't. - Dana Brunetti
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. - Steven Wright
All my life I thought air was free... until I bought a bag of chips. - Unknown
Our Air Corps reunion was held to rememmorate the great things we done. - Archie Bunker
Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man. Landing is the first. - Unknown
Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying... Spring Flight - Eileen Granfors
Pigs had just officially sprouted wings and were flying alongside airplanes. - Jennifer L Armentrout
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world. - Alexander Graham Bell
I love Halloween: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner. - Evan Peters
If God had intended us to fly he would have made it easier to get to the airport. - Jonathan Winters
Birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky. - Mehmet M Ildan
In the dark days of your life, you will need the wings of hope to continue flying. - Mehmet M Ildan
Birds find shelter during the rain, but eagles avoid rain by flying above the clouds. - Abdul Kalam
She would stay there, flying across the sea like a mermaid with wings, until the end. - Natalia Marx
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. - Chinese Proverb
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Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something. - Randy Pausch
I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet. - Michael Jordan
Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying, but the bird has already grown her wings. - Debasish Mridha
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. - Jack Benny
Nothing can move a man who is paid by the hour; how sweet the flight of time seems to his calm mind. - Charles D Warner
I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell. - Michael Moore
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him or her. - David Brinkley
I don't like all this fresh air: I'm from Los Angeles; I don't trust any air I can't see. - Bob Hope
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it. - Golda Meir
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. - Mark Russell
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. - Muhammad Ali
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. - Stephen Leacock
Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together. - Corrie Ten Boom
A drone is often preferred for missions that are too 'dull, dirty, or dangerous' for manned aircraft. - Nick Hahn
My parents have been visiting me for a few days. I just dropped them off at the airport. They leave tomorrow. - Margaret Smith
The blazing wings of dawn spirited me away, Dragon-swift above the suns-rise, flying to my destiny beyond the clouds. - Marc Secchia
The only people flying to Europe will be terrorists, so it will be, "Will you be sitting in armed or unarmed?" - Robin Williams
With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff. - Rodney Dangerfield
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau
It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. - Benjamin Franklin
Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air. - Daphne du Maurier
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. - Francis Bacon
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard
I put my air conditioner in backwards. It got cold outside. The weatherman on TV was confused. "It was supposed to be hot today." - Steven Wright
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be? It is the same the angels breathe. - Mark Twain
Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks; but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house. - Henri Poincare
From lessening negativity to boosting creativity, hiking in fresh air actually boosts brain power and can help certain parts of the brain grow. - Meredith Carey
Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato
If you decide to stop flying, it is wise to hang on to your wings, for you may need them one day, when one of your other qualities turns dangerous. - Am Leach
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. - Victor Hugo
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