Posted November 4, 2008 4:08 PM
by Jill Zuckman
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Sen. John McCain had a little more drama than he might like before the polls closed today.
His "Straight Talk Air," a 737 plane, was on the verge of landing when it pulled up abruptly, circled around, teetered back and forth uncomfortably and finally landed safely at 2:07 p.m. Mountain time.
A flight attendant apologized for the "go around," but said there was traffic on the runway.
McCain, a former Navy fighter pilot, voted in Phoenix this morning, flew to Grand Junction, Colo., for a final rally, and then flew to Albuquerque to thank volunteers working for his campaign.
Comments
So he was going to land. Then he wasn't. Then he did. Boy, talk about your flip-flops!
I'm KIDDING! Figured I'd try to throw a little levity (very little, obviously) into what are so often some mean-spirited rants and counter-rants. I'm glad he landed OK, even if I didn't vote for him.
Posted by: Karl_in_Chicago | November 4, 2008 5:14 PM
This was clearly some nefarious plan by Democratic operatives to taxi an airplane onto the runway and obstruct McCain's progress :)
Posted by: Stan | November 4, 2008 5:22 PM
I, for one, enjoyed the small satire, Karl.
Posted by: Kamran | November 4, 2008 5:22 PM
Glad he was ok. Talk about bad karma on election day, though.
Meanwhile, in Chicago, who would have thought it'd be over 70 degrees and sunny for Obama's rally? The stars must be aligned.
Posted by: LKW | November 4, 2008 5:41 PM
Will someone please get John McCain's Naval job description right. He was never a fighter pilot, he flew the A4 Skyhawk which was a light attack aircraft. The fighter aircraft of that period were the F8 Crusader ( mig killer ) and the F4 Phantom. Fighter pilots were are a very different character having totally different missions, qualifications and skills.
Posted by: Ross, a jet mech | November 4, 2008 5:57 PM
Imagine that something would happen to McCain, Sarah Palin would be the President... DONT LET THIS HAPPENN FOR THE GOODD OF THE WHOLE WORLDDD, PLEASE!
Posted by: June | November 4, 2008 6:04 PM
USA Today headlined this as an "aborted" landing. It's good to see the Republicans are capable of compromise on this issue.
Posted by: Chloe in Chatsworth, CA | November 4, 2008 6:07 PM
FOUR YEARS IN THE FUTURE PEOPLE WILL BE MISS GEORGE W.BUSH
Posted by: JOAO PAULO | November 4, 2008 6:18 PM
I remember early in the campaign Obama's plane had a minor runway incident and the cons. posting here made it a reason to show Obama shouldn't be prez because he couldn't pick a good pilot, or some such nonsense.
Posted by: C.Morris | November 4, 2008 6:34 PM
I remember early in the campaign Obama's plane had a minor runway incident and the cons. posting here made it a reason to show Obama shouldn't be prez because he couldn't pick a good pilot, or some such nonsense.
Posted by: C.Morris | November 4, 2008 6:35 PM
"over 70 degrees and sunny for Obama's rally? The stars must be aligned.
Posted by: LKW | November 4, 2008 5:41 PM"
Looks like all those 'Base Fundies' that were praying to ruin the weather for Obama failed to get through to Him.(!?)
Now; I wonder what that tells them??
Posted by: OldCreaky | November 4, 2008 6:38 PM
JOAO PAULO, we will miss George W. Bush as much as we miss herpes breakouts.
Posted by: Mark | November 5, 2008 3:25 AM