Perhaps your watch today (Wednesday) says Feb 30 or March 2, but it's really March 1, the day after the 1-in-400-year leap day. So how many aircraft fell from the sky yesterday? Did we have any "incidents" or emergency landings?

Only thing I saw was a DC-8 with a possible tire problem. Oh yeah, and some '135s grounded with a gear problem that just has to be due to an embedded processor because of the date. Can't count the 9 reported by Squirrel Hunter since he still hasn't provided a link.

Seems like the number of aircraft problems reported on this forum have declined. So did all the doomers who normally report on this stuff hide in their bunkers on leap day? Or could it be .... that the number of incidents went down?

-- Mikey2k (mikey2k@he.wont.eat.it), March 01, 2000

Answers

On February 29 a ship just passing though
from the Andomeda galaxy got caught on a leap
day glitch and crashed into the Pacific
Ocean. I took this photograph to prove it.

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), March 01, 2000.

Hmmm. Bears an amazing resemblance to a hubcap from a 1936 Chevrolet.

-- Mikey2k (mikey2k@he.wont.eat.it), March 02, 2000.

-- Mikey2k

As always, you are so lame. Everybody knows its from a VW Bug! ;-)

-- PA Engineer (PA Engineer@longtimelurker.com), March 02, 2000.

No incidents or emergnecy landings. 3-4 since Feb, 21. Hey -- this is a peripheral matter, but for the record: the second half of my prediction FAILED! Big Time too. But as you know, on Feb. 15 I did call 5 MD-80 incidents before the end of the month; and later pomised to RAISE the level to 12-19 (additional! it was suicidal) IF the same five forecast events occured within a week. They did (although you, Mikey would probably argue that they DIDN'T, wherefore, YOU Mikey should not be holding me to the second half of my forecast. But that's quibbling. It was I who committed (yada, yada, yada) on the specious strength of events that barely qualified, etc. TO WIT: I was right on the five (and more than right) and wrong on the extra 12 (and more than wrong), and will eat my crow baked in humble pie.

THERE WILL BE MORE. >"<

THAT said, there is the small matter of yesterday's "non-incident triggered (!)" grounding of 198 C-135 and KC-135 in-flight refueling jets. Have you overlooked that? Obviously it doesn't qualify for an MD-80 "incident" but I've admitted my error so let's move on to this topic. Did you post on Hawk's thread below? Haven't checked in there this evening.

Finally, the "Nine Simultaneous Landings" thread was my effort at self-deprecating "net-tling" humor: poking fun at ME. I seem to have cuashgt a few tits in the wringer and maybe my own credibility at the same time. My sincere apologies to all. I figured it would be an obvious lampoon -- (and then after posting it, I jumped right in and gobbled up the "Clinton Recalls Quarters" spoof.) -- but LO and Behold! the next day the more extravagant story was true: 198 military jets grounded for Leap Day. Sheesh!!!

WHO has the last laugh here? Not me .... WHO?

>"<

-- Squirrel Hunter (nuts@upina.cellrelaytower), March 02, 2000.

spider-Cool answer

-- Johnny (jljtm@bellsouth.net), March 02, 2000.