luteboy wrote: > Ah, the Gimli Glider! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_glider > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_glider> > > > I intended to search on google later, that's the one. Regards Sid. > There was a 757 over Canada that lost both engines (source Reader's > Digest in my doctor's office some years ago) due to fuel starvation. > Both fuel gauges were faulty, the book says don't fly unless at least > one is working, but they dipped the tanks and did a division rather than > a multiplication which said they had more than enough fuel. As a matter > of fact, the steward told the refueller that he hoped they had enough > fuel and the refueller remarked that they had enough fuel to fly to > Vancouver and back. Flying over a lake, the Captain said "I'm just going > to sit here, relax and fish", one engine quit, no panic - fuel pump > failure, then the other one quit, "Oh ?*!@, fuel starvation". They set > course for Winnipeg, nowhere in the manual was a recommended glide > speed, so they guessed 280 Kts. and later realised they were going to > hit the ground 10nm short of Winnipeg. Panic... the controller told them > he'd get them down safely and diverted them to a disused airfield - > "just fly the aeroplane and let me worry about getting you down > safely". > A picnic was just about finished when the people on the ground saw the > plane heading for the runway (the wrong one), so they cleared off > sharpish. The manual also didn't show how to get the nosewheel down > manually either. The nose helped with braking and the jet survived to > fly again. > The captain said he was also too high on approach, so he side slipped > in, a technique he said he remembered from his days gliding. Apart from > screaming passengers, all ended well. > The design assumption was that both engines could never quit at the same > time, so whether it was just put down to pilot error and nothing done > since is a question to be asked and whether the same assumption holds > for the 777, this of course, may not have a bearing on the current > incident. > In that situation, they had lost all instruments that needed power and > the air pressure operated instruments were very difficult to see from > the pilots' seats. > Pilots were unhappy with just 2 engines on the Airbus flying long haul, > but were told that they knew nothing about aircraft design and to just > get on with flying. One comment that came from the makers, I believe, > was that aeroplanes of the future would be crewed by one pilot and a > dog. The pilot's job would be to feed the dog and the dog would be there > to bite the pilot if he touched anything other than dog food (BBC Radio > report). > Regards > Sid. > > -- > Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot > Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support > Specialist, Cricket Coach > Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users > >
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