Funny thing. After that U.S. Air flight landed in the Hudson lastweek, I was wondering what an emergency landing would be like. Then Iboarded Uniteds commuter flight UA 6543 from Denver to Albuquerque, onthe way back from covering the X Games in Aspen. During takeoff, therewas a loud vibration. It sounded and felt like we were driving on replica cartier Tank Americaine watches afreeway rumble strip at 80 miles per hour. Then we lifted off and itwent quiet. There was snow and ice on the runway, so we all thought itthe sound was coming from the ground, not our Canadair CRJ 200. Everything wasnormal until about halfway through the beverage service, when the pilotcame over the loudspeaker.
He told us the sound on takeoff may havebeen our front tire blowing out. This worried me a lot because losing the front wheelmeans youre in for a belly landing. Anybody remember that Jet Blueincident from a few years ago? I sure did. The flight replica cartier Tank Francaise watches attendant stoppedher beverage service and had us all take out our flight safety cardsand go over them and then practice our brace positions and take allsharp objects out of our pockets, take off eye glasses, and so on. Shealso re-asked everyone in the exit rows whether they were up to thetask. One person asked to be reseated.
Then the pilot came on again andtold us that when we reached 500 feet of elevation hed come on and sayBrace. Brace. Brace. As with that incident on the Hudson, everythingwas shockingly calm, which kind of made me want to panic. But after afew seconds, the feeling passed. The pilot gave his brace command; theflight attendant kept commanding, Heads down, stay down it until wetouched down at Peterson Air Force Base, which replica omega Omega Seamaster Special Edition watches apparently had a betteremergency team for aircraft emergencies. The rumbling sound was loud,and the plane shuddered, but it was otherwise uneventful. We came torest with a slight lean to the right, and men in silver fire suitsswarmed the plane. The pilot came back on and, turns out it was a rearright wheel that had blown. This one was a routine landing compared with the Hudson, but we didnt know that in the air.
