Crash..

AS most of you know, I am a member of a local Search and Rescue team here in Washington. What some of you may not know is that we also do Air Rescue. We actually go out in helos and high-wing planes and find planes that have crashed in the mountains.

So, this story is of special interest to me:

TORONTO - A jetliner carrying 309 people skidded off a runway while landing in a thunderstorm Tuesday, sliding into a ravine and breaking into pieces, but remarkably everyone aboard survived by jumping to safety in the moments before the plane burst into flames...

...The plane, carrying 297 passengers and 12 crew, overshot the runway by 200 yards at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, said Steve Shaw, a vice president of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority.

The aircraft skidded down a slope into a wooded area next to one of Canada's busiest highways, and some survivors said that passengers scrambled up to the road to catch rides with passing cars.

Wow.. Everybody survived. That's so great! Ya just don't hear good news like this very often. But there will be the blame game. They almost ALWAYS say it's Pilot error. Rather than Pilot error, I would say the Pilot and Flight Crew did EVERYTHING right this time.

4 Days, 5 hours and counting..