Friday, February 13, 2009

又一台掉下來

Geeeesss...all these planes just keep on falling off the sky...I guess road trip and boat house is the way to go from now.

(以下新聞轉貼)
A commuter plane dropped out of the sky without warning and nose-dived into a suburban Buffalo house in a fiery crash that killed all 49 people aboard and one person in the home. It was the nation's first deadly crash of a commercial airliner in 2 1/2 years.

The cause of the disaster was under investigation, but other pilots were overheard around the same time complaining of ice building up on their wings — a hazard that has caused major crashes in the past.

The twin turboprop aircraft — Continental Connection Flight 3407 from Newark, N.J. — was coming in for a landing when it went down in light snow and fog around 10:20 p.m. Thursday about five miles short of the Buffalo Niagara International Airport.

Witnesses heard the plane sputtering before it plunged squarely through the roof of the house, its tail section visible through flames shooting at least 50 feet high.
"The whole sky was lit up orange," said Bob Dworak, who lives less than a mile away. "All the sudden, there was a big bang, and the house shook."


Two others in the house escaped with minor injuries. The plane was carrying a four-member crew and an off-duty pilot. Among the 44 passengers killed was a woman whose husband died in the World Trade Center attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

(很慘...一個在9/11失去老公的女生跟老公會面去了...看來該來的還是會來...躲不掉...有點像是Final Destination演的結局--you can't cheat death.)

Federal investigators searched through the wreckage of the plane and demolished house for the black box recorders that could shed light on what went wrong, but they said the smoldering debris was still too hot to look for bodies.

No mayday call came from the pilot before the crash, according to a recording of air traffic control's radio messages captured by the Web site LiveATC.net. Neither the controller nor the pilot showed concern that anything was out of the ordinary as the airplane was asked to fly at 2,300 feet.

A minute later, the controller tried to contact the plane but heard no response. After a pause, he tried to contact the plane again.

Eventually he told an unidentified listener to contact authorities on the ground in the Clarence area.

Erie County Emergency Coordinator David Bissonette said it appeared the plane "dove directly on top of the house."

"It was a direct hit," Bissonette said. "It's remarkable that it only took one house. As devastating as that is, it could have wiped out the entire neighborhood."

The 74-seat Q400 Bombardier aircraft in Thursday's disaster was operated by Colgan Air, based in Manassas, Va. Colgan's parent company, Pinnacle Airlines of Memphis, Tenn., said the plane was new and had a clean safety record.

The nearly vertical drop of the plane suggests a sudden loss of control, said William Voss, a former official of the Federal Aviation Administration and current president of the Flight Safety Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy group.

Voss suggested that icing or a mechanical failure, such as wing flaps deploying asymmetrically or the two engines putting out different thrust, might have caused the crash, he said.

After the crash, at least two pilots were heard on air traffic control messages saying they had been picking up ice on their wings. "We've been getting ice since 20 miles south of the airport," one said.


Ice on the wings of a plane can alter aerodynamics and interfere with lift and handling. The danger is well known among pilots.

In 1994, an American Eagle commuter plane crashed in Roselawn, Ind., killing all 68 people aboard. Investigators said an ice buildup on the wings caused the aircraft to suddenly roll out of control.

In 1982, an Air Florida plane crashed into Washington's Potomac River just after takeoff, killing 78 people. Investigators blamed improper de-icing.

In 1997, a Comair twin-engine plane went down on approach to Detroit, killing all 29 people aboard. The NTSB blamed ice on the wings.

The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team of investigators to Buffalo. The Department of Homeland Security said there was no indication of terrorism.
(幸好不是恐怖份子,不然媽媽又不會讓我岀門了...;P)

While residents of the neighborhood were used to planes rumbling overhead, witnesses said it sounded louder than usual, sputtered and made odd noises.

David Luce said he and his wife were working on their computers when they heard the plane come in low. "It didn't sound normal," he said. "We heard it for a few seconds, then it stopped, then a couple of seconds later was this tremendous explosion."

Dworak drove to the site, and "all we were seeing was 50- to 100-foot flames and a pile of rubble on the ground. It looked like the house just got destroyed the instant it got hit."

One person in the home was killed, and two others inside, Karen Wielinski, 57, and her 22-year-old daughter, Jill, escaped with minor injuries.

The plane was carrying 5,000 pounds of fuel and apparently exploded on impact, Erie County Executive Chris Collins said.

Firefighters got as close to the plane as they could, he said. "They were shouting out to see if there were any survivors on the plane. Truly a very heroic effort, but there were no survivors," Collins said.

It was the first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in the United States since Aug. 27, 2006, when 49 people were killed after a Comair jetliner mistakenly took off from a Lexington, Ky., runway that was too short.

About 30 relatives and others who arrived at the Buffalo airport overnight were escorted into a private area and then taken by bus to a senior citizens center in the neighboring town of Cheektowaga, where counselors and representatives from Continental waited to help.

The 9/11 widow on board was identified as Beverly Eckert. She was heading to Buffalo for a celebration of what would have been her husband's 58th birthday, said Mary Fetchet, a 9/11 family activist.

Clarence is a growing eastern suburb of Buffalo, largely residential but with rural stretches. The crash site is on a street of older, single-family homes about 20 to 25 feet apart that back up to a wooded area.

The crash came less than a month after a US Airways pilot guided his crippled plane to a landing in the Hudson River in New York City, saving the lives of all 155 people aboard. Birds had apparently disabled both its engines.

On Dec. 20, a Continental Airlines plane veered off a runway and slid into a snowy field at the Denver airport, injuring 38 people.

結論呢...如果真的要搭飛機的話,我看不要搭Continental還有華航吧...

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

笑到爆的MV

給我抓到一ㄓ很舊的MV,雖然很老的片子了,但是還是讓我笑到爆:

如果我是吸血鬼...

If I could be a vampire and live forever, I'd be a RocknRolla!!! Rule the audience on thousands of performance and steal their hearts with my deep, dark songs and lyrics...哇哈哈哈哈...不過如果我真的是吸血鬼的話,and I can live for a long time, I'd like to learn ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. Because then, I wouldn't have to worry about I don't have enough time to learn this and that. I will have lots of time to try out and never need to worry about I won't success because from all these examine, I'd get the result I want one day. Ahhh, now the question is, where can I find a pure blood vampire to give me my eternal entity?

抓一首很吸血鬼的MV來搭配我的吸血鬼心情:

Monday, February 09, 2009

自創的早點

上個禮拜五看到Dunkin' Donuts新岀的早點--waffle breakfast sandwich,看的我一整天心神不寧,想吃的不得了,偏偏又吃不到!!!因為加州沒有Dunkin' Donuts的分店...真是可惡! We are living in the United State for crying out loud!!連鎖快點給我連過來吧!!! 難道有錢給你賺還不要咩? 什麼道理阿...我就在想如果我有私人的jet,我一定給他飛過去買一個來嚐鮮...問題是我還不到擁有private jet的level, so I will have to be create here...星期五下班我馬上就衝去超市買冷凍的waffles,smoked honey ham, American cheese and eggs. 星期六起了個大早就在那邊研發我的Waffle Breakfast Sandwich...將將將~~~我的成品跟Dunkin' Donuts的比起來不相上下勒~(自己做的還可以加大)ㄎㄎㄎ~~從此我又多了一樣我愛吃的早點!!!



Monday, February 02, 2009

Australian Open 2009

今年給我想到要看澳洲公開賽,所以我回家有想到的時候我就給他鎖定一下,今年女子單打跟雙打沒什麼好看的,因為不用看就知道一定又是 Williams 姊妹獨領風騷,果然,沒錯!!這種要是下注在他們身上的話,收回來的%沒有多少,因為是鐵定贏的咩!但是男生的就很不錯看囉~我其實一開始就很看好這個西班牙小生-Nadal. 除了他是新進球員之外,他總共打過這麼多場球賽,只有輸過一盤,當他打進決賽要跟 Federer 比的時候,我就知道 Federer 完蛋了...也不是說人家 Federer 球技不好啦, 你看他在決賽那一天救了蠻多球的,但是越往後面看,你就看他好像有點panic,也有可能是有點累了...其實我比較累好不好...我星期天凌晨實在是超想睡的,可是看到人家在那邊打的很精采,每一球都是很有技巧的靠邊球,所以我就在那邊硬撐啦~我一開始看覺得時候我就覺得 Nadal 會贏, Nadal 比較年輕阿,體力旺盛; 當初阿格西會輸溫布頓球賽也是輸在體力上...其實 Nadal 笑起來蠻可愛的說,嘻! 我覺得 Federer 應該要趕快趁現在還紅的時候多撈一點 endorsement, 醬子以後退休了也就不用擔心太多了~(嗯,我比較喜歡 Nadal 還因為...他的屁股比較翹, 嘿嘿!)

阿,等不及三月的世界棒球盃了啦!!!

有笑窩的 Nadal~


Federer 展現他的切球技巧!


"I WON!!!"