Ol Shy & Bashful

On Jun 17, 11:26 pm, "RST Engineering" <j...@rstengineering.com>
wrote:
> Um, that would be the 405.  I-5 is about ten miles northeast.
>
> Jim
>
> --
> "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
> without accepting it."
>         --Aristotle
>
>  Includes a 737 that had a total electrical failure on
> rotation from 25L at LGB and he stopped with his wingtip hanging over
> the edge of the runway looking down on I-5. Talk about a high pucker
> factor?!

No wonder I kept getting lost on that damned freeway system!!! <ggg>
You are absolutely right of course and I operated out of LGB for years
and out of SNA for as many more. In fact, I started flying out of SNA
back in the mid 50's and worked the SoCal area for at least 20+ years.
The airplane was the old Western Airlines group and I think the
incident was about ....geeeezz '63-64? sometime in the 60's anyway....