Posted on 04/18/2018 7:32:46 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Edited on 04/18/2018 8:35:24 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The pilot
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
http://www.wadenelson.com/gimli.html
Six miles out Pearson began his final approach onto what was formerly RCAFB Gimli. Pearson says his attention was totally concentrated on the airspeed indicator from this point on. Approaching runway 32L he realized he was too high and too fast, and slowed to 180 knots. Lacking divebrakes, he did what any sailplane pilot would do: He crossed the controls and threw the 767 into a vicious sideslip. Slips are normally avoided on commercial flights because of the the tremendous buffeting it creates, unnerving passengers. As he put the plane into a slip some of Flight 143’s passengers ended up looking at nothing but blue sky, the others straight down at a golf course. Says Quintal, “It was an odd feeling. The left wing was down, so I was up compared to Bob. I sort of looked down at him, not sideways anymore.”
And sadly Air France Flight 447
You are correct, The trailing and leading edge flaps and slats being damaged would definitely change flight characteristics differently depending on the site and severity of damage.
After you have been flying B-52s 200 feet off the deck at 350 Kts through mountains and valleys. Spent innumerable hours trying to hook up to a small hose dangled from the end of a boom on a KC-135 to get gas, all while moving at 400 Kts or so, flying passengers around can get a bit boring. Fighter pilots the same way.
Thank you for posting the audio. You owe the ATC folks an apology.
Maybe he is a non-aviator who doesn’t understand that everything ATC said on that recording was professional and necessary.
Ping
The conversations went just the way I would expect them to, and everybody was calm and professional.
Sounds like John McCain
We haven’t gotten around to seeing, ‘Sully’ but I rented it for later this week.
Maybe we should wait for the, ‘Tammie’ movie instead? LOL!
Our local Talk Radio was playing audio clips of how things unfolded; she was cool as a cucumber! The guy on the GROUND sounded pretty rattled! ;)
I didn’t say “easy”, I said “easier”.
Perhaps I should have said “less difficult” for those who don’t understand what “easier” means.
Affirmative Action, I believe.
Or, Anti-Aircraft. Maybe.
Those are my questions as well. No doubt she is a fine and capable pilot. But if she was working the radio, isn’t it most likely she wasn’t flying the plane? Running checklists and communications, yes. Flying... probably not, unless it was a situation like 232 where both pilots plus a third jumpseater had to physically keep the plane straight.
That sound you hear is the keyboards of a thousand screenwriters, each rushing to finish 90 pages of script before they lose the race to the studio.
I didn’t say “easy”, I said “easier”.
Perhaps I should have said “less difficult” for those who don’t understand what “easier” means.
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Perhaps you should wave off on your approach.
Yup...while the Romney boys stayed home, along with so many others.
This works as long as we are flying against defeated third world nations. We will rue the day this has happened when we are in a large grounds war against a competent enemy.
Sully was on the radio and flying his airplane too.
I’m rewatching Denzel Washington’s movie FLIGHT.
This pilot not only brought the plane to the ground, but was flying inverted with over a hundred passengers just before crash landing, plus his blood alcohol was ten times over the limit and he had snorted coke to clear his head. Six people died, and he’s the hero of the movie. LOL
I’m friends with other crew of other airline but hadn’t the chance to meet her, yet. A lot of it is a nod or a little wave but that’s about it since we’re all hustling to the next departure gate.
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