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Close Call For Russian Cargo Plane
avweb.com ^
| August 5, 2007
| By Russ Niles, Contributing Editor
Posted on 08/07/2007 8:43:34 PM PDT by JohnA
It was a testament to the ruggedness of the IL-76, but well let others decide what it says about the crew flying it. According to a Transport Canada incident report published by Canadian Defence and Geopolitics, the Silk Way Airways plane was headed for Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ontario, in early June when it encountered poor visibility (half mile in fog, vertical visibility 500 feet, RVR 600, temperature and dew point 12 degrees Celsius) at the military base. The crew elected to try an instrument approach. The massive plane, loaded with military hardware from the Canadian Forces operation in Afghanistan, hit a perimeter fence, taking out 150 feet of it, touched down briefly 430 feet short of the runway and then managed to climb out, trailing part of the fence from its landing gear and peppered with damage to its belly. However, that wasnt enough to prompt the crew to declare an emergency.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: aerospace; il76
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posted on
08/07/2007 8:43:36 PM PDT
by
JohnA
To: JohnA
I heard Rush Limbaugh ask a pilot who called in after some sort of aircraft crash, "What do pilots think when they are flying a plane that they know is going to crash?" The pilot said, "We are trained to fly as far into the crash as possible."
Rush got a chuckle at this response but this incident bears witness to what that pilot said.
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posted on
08/07/2007 8:50:59 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
To: JohnA
Somebody register and give us the rest of the story, Please.
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posted on
08/07/2007 8:51:52 PM PDT
by
Sundog
(It's a good day for a catharsis.)
To: Aeronaut
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posted on
08/07/2007 8:52:45 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: JohnA
To: Sundog
Somebody register and give us the rest of the story, Please.First time Bugmenot has let me down. Neither login worked.
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posted on
08/07/2007 9:00:39 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Sundog
I registered but I don't feel like spilling the beans if they want their site that way. Here's part of it:
The IL-76 landed uneventfully and went directly to an FBO. There, with help from the emergency workers, the crew untangled the barbed wire and took off again for Trenton, where the cargo was unloaded. In Trenton, it was revealed the aircraft had "substantial damage" and the events were classified by the Transportation Safety Board as an accident rather than an incident.
In other IL-76 (waterbomber) news
Meanwhile, in US Forest Service news:
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posted on
08/07/2007 9:05:06 PM PDT
by
JohnA
To: Sundog
The US Forest Service would lump this incident in with design flaw implications in citing the incident record of the IL-76 as they did in one high-level letter I read from them.
I mean, who's fooling whom here?
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posted on
08/07/2007 9:12:30 PM PDT
by
JohnA
To: Sundog
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posted on
08/07/2007 9:14:19 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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posted on
08/07/2007 9:16:12 PM PDT
by
JohnA
To: Yehuda
One blogger there has it wrong.
I spoke informally with a Canadian Armed Forces aircraft mechanic who was given the cook's tour of the IL-76 while serving in Bosnia where the Russians played a role. He and his Canadian Armed Forces mechanic buddies loved the thing. Everything BIG and easily reachable with ordinary tools and tough as nails. He had nothing but good to say about the entire aircraft.
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posted on
08/07/2007 9:22:40 PM PDT
by
JohnA
To: JohnA
No need to spill beans, but I’m most impressed with the Russian engineering.
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posted on
08/07/2007 9:27:38 PM PDT
by
Sundog
(It's a good day for a catharsis.)
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To: Yehuda
Thanks.
Probably a fence post put the hole in the landing gear cover.
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posted on
08/07/2007 9:32:05 PM PDT
by
Sundog
(It's a good day for a catharsis.)
To: Sundog
I flew on the IL-96 but never the IL-76. The Russians wouldn’t let me but they took an Australian news crew on the waterbomber when I asked them to. No good film from that. Couldn’t see a thing for the fog. Cameraman was white as a sheet on landing.
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posted on
08/07/2007 9:33:34 PM PDT
by
JohnA
To: All
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posted on
08/07/2007 9:42:20 PM PDT
by
JohnA
To: All
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posted on
08/07/2007 10:05:17 PM PDT
by
JohnA
To: JohnA
The crew elected to try an instrument approach,Let's see, we're so far below VFR that "electing" to try an instrument approach isn't really an option, the crew made (and screwed up) an instrument approach. For them to hit the perimeter fence, they had to be way below the glide slope.
They were obviously not competent to fly into those conditions, or their instruments weren't functioning right. Regardless, most any other airplane would be a jigsaw puzzle strewn across the field.
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posted on
08/07/2007 11:02:00 PM PDT
by
par4
(Scruting the inscrutable since the 20th century)
To: JohnA
I got to tour one in Uganda during the 1994 Rwanda famine relief. As a C-130 loadmaster I was most impressed with the overhead crane in the cargo compartment.
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posted on
08/08/2007 12:58:36 AM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(Run, Fred run! I will send my donation as soon as you announce.)
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