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Heathrow air crash
BigSi:
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on January 20, 2008, 16:00:00 ---Time to buy shares :-.
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Or sell them!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Krull:
Google for the gimli glider if you want to see what a real pilot can do with a big plane and no engines. there is a wiki too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_glider
that pilot really did glide it in and the plane was reusable 2 days afterward :shock:
--- Quote ---The pilots immediately searched their emergency checklist for the section on flying the aircraft with both engines inoperative, only to find that no such section existed
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what an oversight [-X
another link http://www.wadenelson.com/gimli.html
Range Rover Blues:
When we left Uni my mate applied for the training course to become a BA pilot. He failed the selection and from what we could gather it was because he was too clever, they don't like pilots who can think they like pilots who can follow procedures. They then spend 2 weeks leaning to fly a plane and 102 weeks learing to fly a plane with bits falling off.
I've seen that Gimli Glider on telly and whilst impressive I think it pails into insignificance next to the guys who flew and almost landed a DC10 with no hydraulics and airframe damage that was pulling it to the right. They had only throttle control of the 2 remaining engines with which to fly the aircraft but still managed to execute a 270 degree turn right (couldn't turn left) and get the aircraft onto the runway. Only a last-minute freak gust of wind blew it into the trees causing a crash.
I think this is it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232
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