El Al plane avoids crash by flying into Egypt
An El-Al aircraft carrying more than 100 passengers nearly collided with a mountain near Eilat last month rendering the pilots to avert the summit flying deep into Egyptian territory, Channel 10 reported Sunday.I'm so glad that JPost has translators who write English good. I hope you'll forgive me if I do some editing.
After receiving orders from the flight control tower to avert landing, the pilots, navigating without instruments, were confused making rounds and lost direction, according to the report.
The pilots guided the 737 aircraft 200 meters above the top of the mountain moments before an imminent crash.
An El-Al aircraft carrying more than 100 passengers nearlyAnd no, I don't want a job editing there....collided withcrashed into a mountain near Eilat last monthrenderingforcing the pilots toavertavoid the summit by flying deep into Egyptian territory, Channel 10 reported Sunday.
After receiving orders from the flight control tower toavertabort their landing, the pilots, navigating without instruments, were confusedmaking roundswhile circling the airport and lost direction, according to the report.
The pilots guided the 737 aircraft 200 meters above the top of the mountainmoments before an imminentbarely avoiding a crash.
But I find it quite amazing that this was a big enough deal that it wasn't disclosed for a month.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:35 AM
3 Comments:
One does not "write English good." One writes good English or writes English well. Was this a joke?
Nomadic100,
Yes, of course it was a joke. Do you ever see me writing like that? Did you notice how I edited the piece afterward? It was obviously a poor translation of a report in Hebrew.
"This is the sort of pedanticism, up with which I will not put." (scrawled by Winston Churchill across a memo written by a member of his staff, in which the writer had tortured a sentence to avoid ending it with a preposition. :-)
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