Butler Team Flight Makes Emergency Landing

[TallTitan34]

https://t.co/0si2X5fZyy

[MU82]

Wow, that is some freakin' story. Scary.

Rough night for the Bulldogs.

[Windyplayer]

Wow, that's terrible. Sounded positively terrifying. You know it's bad when the pilot said they were the "longest minutes" of his life.

EDIT: Noticed that they were to fly back to Indianapolis this afternoon. At first glance, I thought that must be incredibly difficult to do. On second thought, while maybe true, it's also the smartest thing to do, a la, drive again immediately after an accident. Don't let one statistical anomaly dictate your behavior moving forward.

[muwarrior69]

Brings back those dreadful memories when Marshall lost their football team.

[Jay Bee]

Guarantee Kamar Baldwin wasn't one of the guys crying.

Been in a few scary plane situations, but never had all masks dropped... yikes!

[4everwarriors]

Purple Aces too, hey?

[Jams]

Purple Aces too, hey?

Oklahoma State basketball.  Bill Hancock's son (Will) was one of the eight that perished in 2001.  Bill is currently the head of the College Football Playoff and worked with many of us in the MU Athletics Department on the 1996 and 1999 NCAA tournaments in Milwaukee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_State_Cowboys_basketball_team_plane_crash

[Windyplayer]

Purple Aces too, hey?

Per the Wiki page regarding the Evansville basketball team...

"Two weeks after the crash, the only member of the basketball team who was not on the DC-3 was killed after being hit by a drunk driver, leaving all of the members of the 1977 Purple Aces Basketball team dead."

Crazy.

[wadesworld]

Wow, that's terrible. Sounded positively terrifying. You know it's bad when the pilot said they were the "longest minutes" of his life.

EDIT: Noticed that they were to fly back to Indianapolis this afternoon. At first glance, I thought that must be incredibly difficult to do. On second thought, while maybe true, it's also the smartest thing to do, a la, drive again immediately after an accident. Don't let one statistical anomaly dictate your behavior moving forward.

Was on a family flight home from Sarasota, FL when I was like 6 or 7 years old.  Took off and shortly after the pilot came on and said we had to make an emergency landing in Tampa (about a 2 hour drive from Sarasota, I believe).  They had to dump a bunch of fuel and were having trouble with getting any landing gear down, eventually had to land with the emergency landing gear and there were fire engines lining the runway when we landed in Tampa.  My mom refused to fly after that, so my first time flying anywhere after that point was when I started coaching volleyball after my freshman year at MU.  The first flight I took had some horrible turbulence flying from Milwaukee to Denver (and then onto CA from there).  I was always told to look at the flight attendants if you're hitting turbulence or feel like something's wrong, they know when something's not right.  They definitely did not look calm.  It's a good thing we were delayed in Milwaukee and had had to run across Denver's airport or I might not have gotten on the connecting flight had I had time to sit around and think about the upcoming next flight.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/18429367/mechanical-issue-grounds-butler-bulldogs-flight-back-home

Now this....

[Tugg Speedman]

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/18429367/mechanical-issue-grounds-butler-bulldogs-flight-back-home

Now this....

If you believe luck is zero sum, hopefully all of them have used up their bad luck on planes for the rest of their life.

[real chili 83]

Wow, that is some freakin' story. Scary.

Rough night for the Bulldogs.

This happens to to me on a flight back from Dallas a couple of years ago.