Re: The Day It Rained Jigs on Jeddah

towbar <[email protected]> Sun, 7 Jan 2024 16:53:25 -0500
Newsgroups alt.disasters.aviation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/11/23 17:16, Byker wrote:
> Dramatized on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQhzEi2WAFg
> 
> Thirty-two years ago today...
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> I wonder if [email protected] would be interested in the ballistic
> coefficients and terminal velocities of Allah-worshiping Niggerians doing
> swan dives from 2,000 feet?
> 
> GREAT MOMENTS IN ISLAMIC AVIATION
> 
> On July 11th, 1991, a Nationair DC-8 charter, flying hajj pilgrim kaffirs
> back to de mutha country from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on behalf of Niggeria
> Airways, departed the gate with underinflated tires.  A long taxi, combined
> with a hot day, caused at least two tires to fail and one catch fire during
> the first 500 ft. of take-off roll.  If the air traffic controllers saw it,
> they didn't say shit, probably because they knew what was going to happen
> and that would mean 250 fewer kaffir ragheads they'd ever have to fuck with
> again.
> 
> Anyway, they lifted off, the gear was raised -- tire fire and all -- and at
> 2000-3000 ft. problems with the cabin pressure were reported, followed by a
> bursting tire and loss of hydraulics.  No doubt the crew knew something was
> up when the passengers were bowing toward Mecca at a time not prescribed by
> the Koran.  The pilot did a 180 when smoke started filling the cockpit, and
> flames were coming through the floor as he raced back for an emergency
> landing.  All hell was breaking loose in the passenger cabin, and as they
> descended through 2,200 ft, the fuselage burned through and spearchuckers
> came pouring out as a long string of burrheaded bombs (rumors persist that
> "Allah Akbar" could be heard as they plunged into the city's souk).
> 
> Those who stayed on board had a few seconds more to make peace with their
> Maker, because the fire burned through the control cables while their magic
> carpet was on its final landing approach, and the camel jocks on the ground
> were treated to the sight of the Ebo-Express doing its impersonation of a
> 150-ton napalm bomb...

I knew one of the pilots, as well as his parents.