SAVANNAH -- Delta Air Lines flight 339 from Atlanta to Savannah skidded off the end of the runway in heavy rains at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport about 12:30 this afternoon.
There were no injuries.
Despite reports that the airplane had gone into the sand, airport spokeswoman Lori Lynah said it was her understanding that it never left the concrete safety area.
"The plane was towed to the gate and the passengers deplaned," she said.
Perhaps it was momentarily exciting for them, but this hardly rates a notice outside the boundaries of the airport itself.
With the constant overload of pointless and even rather important information to sort through in the course of a day, why burden us with this complete waste of attention?
Why read it if you're not interested? It's like a television -- if you don't want to watch it, don't turn it on. If you don't want to be bothered by "pointless information," don't click on the headline.
Delta better tighten up. They just had another runway incident over the weekend when all of the plane's landing gear wouldn't go down. Emergency landing at JFK.
CNN had an article where they were concerned that the newer autos that will have the latest wireless technology, may be threatened by hackers that can supposedly manipulate the vehicles controls with a computer. I wonder if this same technology is used in these airplanes? And can someone be manipulating them?
System security and Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) are going to be huge issues for automobiles in the near future. We just hope the system developers are being proactive instead of waiting to be reactive.
CSRAreader, it's only after reading something like this that one realizes what a waste of time it was. I'm from Savannah, I have family there, I'm interested if something newsworthy happens there.
Overshooting the runway without even leaving the pavement doesn't quality as anything but alarmist reporting.
Hey Fiat... I bet if you or your family were on the plane, it'd be worthy of making the news then. You'd probably even want more information included. How many people were on the plane and why it overshot the "safe landing" area. It even made the papers and TV in Savannah, so I guess they waste their time too. Sorry that nobody died to make this more of a worthy story for you. :-\
In Chatham County, it's news-- maybe. In Augusta, it's filler.
Get a grip, for pete's sake. NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.
(Uh, Rainbow, get a clue.)
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