"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
05/02/2019 at 11:45 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
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My old man just sent me this one — he was a young flight instructor (21 years old) in New Jersey when he saw a fireball on the ground ahead and requested to be redirected from Atlantic City to Cape May. His student was wearing an IFR hood and wasn’t able to see out of their plane, which is probably good.
Turns out it was this exact TWA training flight.
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> Ash78, voting early and often
05/02/2019 at 12:47 |
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I didn’t know Microsoft had a version of Flight Sim in 1969.
ttyymmnn
> Ash78, voting early and often
05/02/2019 at 14:20 |
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“The probable cause of this accident was a loss of directional control, which resulted from the intentional shutdown of the pumps supplying hydraulic pressure to the rudder without a concurrent restoration of power on the No.4 engine. A contributing factor was the inadequacy of the hydraulic fluid loss emergency procedure when applied against the operating configuration of the aircraft.”
https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19690726-1
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ttyymmnn
> Ash78, voting early and often
05/02/2019 at 14:22 |
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Not exactly a Boeing/FAA oops, is it? Sounds to me like the IP screwed up.
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> Ash78, voting early and often
05/02/2019 at 16:41 |
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This sounds like mainly a procedural problem. It r eminds me a bit of the USS Thresher accident. At the time the procedure for a submarine that had SCRAM’d its reactor was to shut the steam stops to prevent over-cooling the core. When the ship tried to emergency blow and the lines froze, she was dead in the water because the closed steam lines meant no propulsive power to drive the ship back to the surface, and she sunk out and imploded.