Always liked this one. Not a crash but should have been. Damn fine pilots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBY2dCnjr7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBY2dCnjr7c
05-23-2019, 11:15 AM - The moment the Roosh Forum died.
Quote: (03-23-2019 11:44 PM)Reese1228 Wrote:
I have a super liberal buddy that is pilot for a major US airline and he says women pilots suck ass. Emotional train wrecks.
Beware.
Quote: (03-24-2019 12:41 AM)RIslander Wrote:
Funny story: All the male pilots were stashing porn in the cracks and crevices of the cockpit and some dumb female pilot sued the airline. There were lawyers combing the cockpits. This woman said "fuck that I'm going to get you fuckers" and replaced all the straight porn with gay porn. I never had more respect for a woman.
Quote: (03-17-2019 06:35 PM)Dusty Wrote:
How about TACA 110? This is similar to the Sully ditching in the Hudson. They were flying a 737 from Mexico to New Orleans, and over the Gulf of Mexico, they lost all their engines. They glided to the edge of Louisiana and spotted some canals, and that was the plan, ditch it in a canal. As they were descending, the copilot spotted a levee (flat with short grass) and the pilot agreed that would be a better landing spot. He was lined up over the canal, so he had to slip it over at the last minute to line up on the levee. He landed there safely, no injuries. The pilot said that was his smoothest landing ever.
Quote: (03-25-2019 02:53 PM)RoastBeefCurtains4Me Wrote:
Quote: (03-17-2019 06:35 PM)Dusty Wrote:
How about TACA 110? This is similar to the Sully ditching in the Hudson. They were flying a 737 from Mexico to New Orleans, and over the Gulf of Mexico, they lost all their engines. They glided to the edge of Louisiana and spotted some canals, and that was the plan, ditch it in a canal. As they were descending, the copilot spotted a levee (flat with short grass) and the pilot agreed that would be a better landing spot. He was lined up over the canal, so he had to slip it over at the last minute to line up on the levee. He landed there safely, no injuries. The pilot said that was his smoothest landing ever.
I wonder how they got the plane out of there afterwards? They wouldn't have been able to take off, even after repairing the problem. They must have had to disassemble the plane at the site. It must have sucked to have a completely successful landing with no damage, and still have the plane destroyed just as if it had crashed.
Quote: (03-25-2019 02:57 PM)Dusty Wrote:
Quote: (03-25-2019 02:53 PM)RoastBeefCurtains4Me Wrote:
Quote: (03-17-2019 06:35 PM)Dusty Wrote:
How about TACA 110? This is similar to the Sully ditching in the Hudson. They were flying a 737 from Mexico to New Orleans, and over the Gulf of Mexico, they lost all their engines. They glided to the edge of Louisiana and spotted some canals, and that was the plan, ditch it in a canal. As they were descending, the copilot spotted a levee (flat with short grass) and the pilot agreed that would be a better landing spot. He was lined up over the canal, so he had to slip it over at the last minute to line up on the levee. He landed there safely, no injuries. The pilot said that was his smoothest landing ever.
I wonder how they got the plane out of there afterwards? They wouldn't have been able to take off, even after repairing the problem. They must have had to disassemble the plane at the site. It must have sucked to have a completely successful landing with no damage, and still have the plane destroyed just as if it had crashed.
There’s a video. They flew it out!
It started sinking into the mud. They got some test pilots to take off and land it at the nearby airport.
Quote: (03-17-2019 06:00 PM)Dusty Wrote:
They were headed from Denver to Chicago, but were flying over Iowa when their trouble started. They ended up crash landing in Sioux City Iowa. 185 people survived it (including all the pilots) while 112 died in the crash.
Here’s video of the crash:
Quote: (03-25-2019 02:57 PM)Dusty Wrote:
There’s a video. They flew it out!
It started sinking into the mud. They got some test pilots to take off and land it at the nearby airport.
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NEW ORLEANS -- A TACA International Airlines jet that made an extraordinary power-off landing with 41 people aboard on the grounds of a NASA facility reached its scheduled destination of New Orleans International Airport Monday, 13 days late.
The Boeing 737, with a replacement for one of its two engines, vaulted into the air from a little-used World War II runway after a take-off roll of barely 1,200 feet.
It landed 17 minutes later at New Orleans International, 15 miles to the west where additional maintenance will be performed before the aircraft is returned to service.
TACA Flight 110, with 41 passengers and crew aboard, was nearing the end of a May 24 trip from San Salvador to New Orleans when it lost power in both engines 15 miles from the airport.
The pilot maneuvered the craft to make a near-perfect landing on a grassy strip between the Intracoastal Waterway and the old runway at the NASA-Martin Marietta Michoud Aerospace facility. No one was hurt, and the plane was left intact, making the flyaway possible.
It was the first time a commercial airliner had ever made a safe, 'dead stick' landing away from an airport, aviation experts said.
Technicians from Boeing and General Electric, maker of the plane's engines, replaced the right engine before the plane was cleared for the short hop to New Orleans International.
The plane carried only a pilot and copilot, supplied by Boeing, and a light fuel load of about 5,500 pounds for what was described as a normal flight.
Although the pilot had 5,200 feet of runway to use, he lifted the nose sharply after using less than a fourth of the strip, and banked to the right to ensure clearance of a high-rise bridge and high-tension power lines.
'We could have lost an engine in rotation and still cleared all that,' said National Transportation and Safety Board investigator Warren Wandel. 'We had a considerable safety margin.'
Martin Marietta employees who gathered outside to watch the take-off cheered and applauded as the aircraft rose sharply into low-hanging clouds.
'We're ready to get back to the business of tanks nstead of airplanes,' said John Hill, manager of the NASA facility where external fuel tanks for the space shuttle are made.
Wandel said the engine that was removed would be sent to the manufacturer's plant at Cincinnati, Ohio, a 'detailed teardown inspection,' Wandel said. He said the engine showed over-heating damage.
'The investigation is still continuing. It will take several months. The fact the plane is in service doesn't mean it's over by any means. It was returned to service before it took off from here,' he said.
Early speculation on the cause of the total engine failure centered on possible fuel contamination or severe weather. The engines quit as the plane flew threw a severe thunderstorm that generated heavy rains and golf ball-sized hail.
The aircraft had 12,800 pounds of fuel on board when the engines quit. However, fuel contamination, since has been ruled out as a cause of the engine failures.
Quote: (03-25-2019 04:43 PM)RoastBeefCurtains4Me Wrote:
Quote: (03-25-2019 02:57 PM)Dusty Wrote:
Quote: (03-25-2019 02:53 PM)RoastBeefCurtains4Me Wrote:
Quote: (03-17-2019 06:35 PM)Dusty Wrote:
How about TACA 110? This is similar to the Sully ditching in the Hudson. They were flying a 737 from Mexico to New Orleans, and over the Gulf of Mexico, they lost all their engines. They glided to the edge of Louisiana and spotted some canals, and that was the plan, ditch it in a canal. As they were descending, the copilot spotted a levee (flat with short grass) and the pilot agreed that would be a better landing spot. He was lined up over the canal, so he had to slip it over at the last minute to line up on the levee. He landed there safely, no injuries. The pilot said that was his smoothest landing ever.
I wonder how they got the plane out of there afterwards? They wouldn't have been able to take off, even after repairing the problem. They must have had to disassemble the plane at the site. It must have sucked to have a completely successful landing with no damage, and still have the plane destroyed just as if it had crashed.
There’s a video. They flew it out!
It started sinking into the mud. They got some test pilots to take off and land it at the nearby airport.
Man! Those test pilots must have had balls of steel! I would have said I'd only do it for a third of the replacement cost of the plane. Obviously they must have felt it was doable, but still, it must have been a high risk takeoff.