Well with Obama’s ego and constant babblings I can see how a plan might be hard to control. But, John not cool really not cool. The man has no experience or qualifications to be president but damn.

Denise:

People like John will say anything to get attention.....

Reminds me of a dog barking in the night.....

Come on, people. Why do we have to get in to all the "I hope his plane crashes" stuff.

I don't care if you agree with or disagree with Obama, its in bad taste.

Honestly, I hate these comment sections after news articles exactly for this type of thing. It gives any idiot -- myself included -- a chance to show just how much of an idiot they (we) are rather than contribute anything worthwhile to the news.

I was a journalism major in college and I worked in the media. I want the news to be the news and the commentary to be left to the water cooler.

Get the hell off the MD-80. Remember the Air Alaska jet? It was an MD-80 with a 'controlability issue'.

I flew on an MD-80 from Minnesota to Chicago and I've never had a more tense flight.

Chances are it was in fact Minor, but it sounds like the MD-80 had the typical "MD-80 Rear BOLT" issue in the tail, which is the same issue that caused the fatal Air Alaskan flight to lose control during mid-flight which i recall the pilots made several recoveries before the stabalizer finally failed. I'm more than certain they are checking that horizontal stabl. bolt on the rear of the plane!

Must have been his personal magnetism affecting the control surfaces.

Glad he's ok.

Don't let a phony to correct the problem because he will only make more boneheaded mistakes.

To rlp-politcal - I'm glad this country has come far enough that an African American male is the democratic nominee for President.

I'm just sad that it came at the expense of a more experienced, harder working, more qualified female candidiate.

Gary -

She nor her husband did nothing to deserve the hatred of Obama supporters. The only reason is Obama's strategy; if you cannot win on substance, destroy your opponents or discard votes or make votes discarded.

BhO came to being by challenging every single of his opponents partition signatures, in court; And because of technical reasons - people wrote down clearly their names rather than chicken strolled as "signatures" - Obama squeeze out every single of his opponents. He "won" state senate uncontested.

Did that sound familiar? He "won" US senate election uncontested.

Now, he "won" an affirmative action nomination in the primaries.

Notice how ABC News has not mentioned anything about the 500 Tons of Uranium shipped out of IRAQ. Notice how it destroys the arguments of the nutheads from the left. They and Obama will say anything. It should give the left a second thought about Obama. But it won't. They were without a compass before they started the warpath against the war. And they still have no compass to get on the correct path. Such a waste, such moral dishonesty. And they think that diplomacy always work. Yet they themselves are dishonest with meaning of the facts. Go figure this dilution. But don't waste your time. There are some that we should just ignore. 50 million Arabs mean nothing to them.

I don't support the guy but 'glad he's OK' .. not just him but everyone onboard.

As I recall, the Alaska Air pilot's had a pre-existing problem with the stabilizer and instead of treating it like a jammed stab and following the prescribed abnormal checklist for such, they tried to keep playing with it until they themselves broke it catastrophically. Hind-sight is always 20/20 though, isn't it?

"Get the hell off the MD-80. Remember the Air Alaska jet? It was an MD-80 with a 'controlability issue'."

Not only that, it looks like the SAME controllability issue!

For the past week, it has been continuously tilting to the right in spite of all uplifting support to right it.

Any suspicious mishap most likely will not be forgiven. I hear that the multitude is saying that any tomfoolry with your personal safety will probably end up with a situation similar to Gitmo where the guilty and the innocent are candidates for death row without trial or any evidence.

Those of you who are bad mouthing the MD80 don't know what you are talking about. That 'bad' screw jack was caused by bad maintenance. And the crash was caused by the pilots test flying the problem. The operators manual clearly says to stop messing with the H-Stab trim if you have a problem. They kept testing it untill the screw jack failed.

yes, i'm quite aware of what happened on that MD-83 back in 2000. I was on the radios. It wasn't just the maintanance & pilot trail & error. If my mind recalls, they had issues during that ENTIRE flight..flying most of the flight manually & hard labor at that just flying the aircraft - they were darn good pilots & very knowlegeable about the situation at hand. Problem existed way before the screw jack failed.

You're correct on the maintanance, but when issues like these come up again, better to be reminded of past & certain ALL maintanance is performed on those older MD80 fleet of aircraft. Especially now when airlines are cutting costs.

hopefully the US will keep flying and won’t have to make an unscheduled landing after November election…