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Cockpit View of Highway Landing of Small Plane

Monday, 26 June 2023, 6:53 BFH Uncategorized 22

Got down just under the power lines.

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  3. …they briefly experimented with showing a cockpit view of the takeoffs and landings to the passengers in the ’70s, but after American Airlines Flight 191 physically lost an engine due to poor maintenance practices in 1979 on take off, with a combination of low altitutde, asymmetric thrust, and destroyed hydraulics dooming them to die quickly, it occured to some folks that the passengers would have had ringside seats to their own wingover and abrupt return to earth in the side of a Maintenance hangar. Despite the fact that everyone died and it was unlikely they even had time to process what they were seeing, they decided that it was, at a minimum, in poor taste to offer folks a view of their possible death that looms over every flight, and so discontinued the practice.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qKVaq0rrkU

    …IDK, time does seem to dilate during an accident. Maybe seeing the fact that you are about to become one with the Earth would make you cry out for Heaven at the last.

    Or scream like a little bitch and curse God, dooming yourself to eternal hellfire.

    Either way, its not an option now, so I guess people can just die in ignorance, although the folks with window seats are probably going to get a final eyeful when their woke, vaxxxed, single pilot aircraft start showing how bad an idea all of the foregoing is whether captured on camera or not…

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  5. That is impressive, until you remember one of Joe’s 50+ trips to Afghanistan where he was forced to land in the mountains On tHe HigHWaY oF TeRrOR because of a snowstorm, “Look man, if you wanna know where Bin Laden is, come hang out with me in a helicopter with a three star general in Afghanistan.”

    If that’s not ultimate impressiveness, how about super-duper impressiveness when Hillary was forced to land in Bosnia under sniper fire, “I go to places that are too dangerous for my husband [Bill says: “Hey man, I can’t go ’cause I might get shot”] and run to safety with my head down.”

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  6. I landed a Concorde in the Himilayas at warp speed and personally carried everyone to safety, then fixed the plane and flew it around the moon.

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  9. Clarification^^^ although the engine was still running, it must not have been making any power, otherwise why the emergency landing. Thus the “dead stick” comment.

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  11. Tony, from the article, “the engine had started to fail.” That indicates the engine still had power, at least enough to manipulate the aircraft, albeit with reduced inputs. This would allow the pilot to more safely choose a landing destination rather than allowing complete engine failure and gravity making more of a dead stick decision.

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  13. …here’s what someone on Twit says it was…

    “The SD Padres’ Fan
    @TheSDPadresFan
    (July 2022) Pilot makes emergency landing on highway amid traffic as engine fails.

    Vincent Fraser, the pilot, had only recently acquired his licence and was flying a single-engine aircraft with his father-in-law when the incident happened.

    An American pilot had a narrow escape from a major disaster after he managed to make an emergency landing on the highway amid vehicular traffic in North Carolina because the engine had started to fail. The landing, a video of which is doing the rounds on social media, was filmed on the pilot’s GoPro camera.

    The incident happened on July 3. Vincent Fraser, the pilot, was flying a single-engine aircraft from Fontana Lake in Swain County with his father-in-law. But then his engine started to fail.

    The footage of the emergency landing was shared by the Swain County Sheriff’s Office on Facebook. The footage is from the pilot’s point of view from the cockpit of the plane.

    Sheriff Curtis Cochran, as signed on the Facebook post, shared the video saying Fraser did an “OUTSTANDING job and no injuries”. He said the pilot barely avoided some of the power lines. “There were so many things that could have been catastrophic but they didn’t happen,” the sheriff wrote

    Fraser had acquired his pilot’s licence in the fall last year. A Marine veteran from Florida, he has less than 100 hours of air experience.”

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  14. Tony R, you are correct. Both of my sons are in flight school, and they practice landings at idle speed, which is essentially dead-stick. Of course, they do it on actual runways.

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  15. I took flying lessons in high school. The instructor would suddenly cut the power to idle and ask me where I was going to land. You have to choose the best possible place and try to get the aircraft heading into the wind as the aircraft lost altitude. The instructor would then add the power back and you had to climb out. The pucker factor was strong during this exercise.

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  16. Ron White
    Twin engine plane looses an engine.
    Asked how far they can fly with one engine?
    “I’m sure we will make it all the way to the scene of the crash, probably beat EMS there by 20 minutes”.

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  17. Dr. Hambone
    AT 9:31 AM
    “I took flying lessons in high school. The instructor would suddenly cut the power to idle and ask me where I was going to land.”

    …yeah, my new house is near a General Aviation airfield that has many flight schools, and at first it would scare the shit out of my wife when she’d be in the back yard and suddenly hear a droning little “Buddy Holly plane” as she calls them suddenly go silent over the house. She did figure it out pretty quick, but the first couple freaked her out and she was waiting for the “Boom”.

    Thanks guys, for making her think of this.

    https://youtu.be/DBSAeqdcZAM

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