thought a Griff without PAS was heavy

[gemini]

Anyone see the dam buster thing BBC2?
Boy those guys need more than a medal - our current top Aces found it hard going
Good programme

[apache]

Did you ever see the black box documentary about the MD11 crash at Souix city? The tail engine threw a large part of itself through all the hydraulics, the guys nearly got it on the centreline using assymetric thrust alone, unfortunately at the last minute they lost it and it ground looped. The airline put their finest crews through a simulator and, as far as I know, no one came close, finest piece of flying I've ever seen.

[Buffalo]

Bugger i missed it - was watching bloody MIB for some reason

Anyone tape it??

[HarryW]

apache said: Did you ever see the black box documentary about the MD11 crash at Souix city? The tail engine threw a large part of itself through all the hydraulics, the guys nearly got it on the centreline using assymetric thrust alone, unfortunately at the last minute they lost it and it ground looped. The airline put their finest crews through a simulator and, as far as I know, no one came close, finest piece of flying I've ever seen.

Watched that one, as you say probably some of the most amazing flying done in peace time, deserve mucho respect . I only hope I don't need the pilots of any of the airplanes I travel on to be able to repeat the feat.

Harry

[gemini]

oops it was on channel 4
second part and the raid itself is on next Mon

[hughjayteens]

HarryW said:

apache said: Did you ever see the black box documentary about the MD11 crash at Souix city? The tail engine threw a large part of itself through all the hydraulics, the guys nearly got it on the centreline using assymetric thrust alone, unfortunately at the last minute they lost it and it ground looped. The airline put their finest crews through a simulator and, as far as I know, no one came close, finest piece of flying I've ever seen.

Watched that one, as you say probably some of the most amazing flying done in peace time, deserve mucho respect . I only hope I don't need the pilots of any of the airplanes I travel on to be able to repeat the feat.

Harry

Truly amazing - studied that in my aero engineering course and it still astounds me that so many people survived. They think they could have saved more apart from not being able to drive ambulances over the bodies that littered the runway. There is some truly awful photos from that scene but I guess it could have been a lot worse.


Thankfully people took note after that and fitted valves in the hydraulic lines.