Aircraft accident

[Rogerson785]

My last skydive I had to wait for the pilot, an ex-CIA pilot to attach the propeller, was glad I had a parachute.

[ChattanCat]

My last skydive I had to wait for the pilot, an ex-CIA pilot to attach the propeller, was glad I had a parachute.

Now that's scary. I knew a guy who was in at least two passenger jet crashes... His time wasn't up.

[acstoon]

I was on a company flight, in the corporate bus-jet, 3 years ago, when we had a nose gear failure.
Being the son of a pilot, and knowing the pilots flying, that day, I can honestly say I felt very confident of a safe ending.
Obviously I was correct.

[O'Callaghan]

I had flying lessons, but I never learnt to take off or land. I suppose even the Al Qaeda guys learnt how to take off, just not land!

I know in theory how to land a plane, but for any given aircraft there are differences in things like stalling speed and stalling angle. I'm not quite sure where to expect to find the flap control, either (never used it you see). Also, those bigger planes have way too many instruments, so I'd be worried about finding the four or so that I really need.

I think if I had to I could land without fatalities. I don't know about whether I could do it without damaging the plane or needing the fire trucks! Let's hope I'm never the only person aboard with flying experience!

[Kerr the Walker]

"Any landing you can walk away from is a good one."

How very cool that your folks live so close to the airport. I don't think I'd get anything productive done if I lived that close. I'd spend too much time bumming around the airport and oogling airplanes.

[Pleater]

One of my Dad's stories was the time that he was in a plane where, when the landing gear was lowered they got two green lights and one red - the pilot rolled and dived to try to get a third green, without sucess, and then flew around until there was scarcely any fuel left.

On landing he put down on one wheel, then the nose wheel, and finally the doubtful one - which did not collapse, though most of those aboard felt that they could, any minute, after the tension of waiting to discover what would happen.

On checking it was found that it was the sensor at fault rather than the hydraulics, but the experience obviously made an impression on his memory!!

Anne the Pleater

[acstoon]

How very cool that your folks live so close to the airport. I don't think I'd get anything productive done if I lived that close. I'd spend too much time bumming around the airport and oogling airplanes.

My Dad was a pilot from way back (in the 30's).
We (his kids) accuse him of choosing to live there because of its close proximity to the airport.
He just winks, and says "Don't tell your mother".
He's always sneaking over to go flying with his buddies...

[Colonel MacNeal]

Airborne Qualified, - Fort Benning, Georgia
Hooaahh!

[cessna152towser]

Thank goodness the pilot walked away. The jump plane is expendable so long as the pilot is OK. An acquaintance of mine hired a Piper Arrow with retractable landing gear and collected it from an airfield further south. Arriving at the home airport he got two green lights only and a gear unsafe warning on the third and a full scale emergency was declared. After a safe landing, in which the undercarriage did NOT collapse he telephoned the owner who replied that he forgot to mention that the third undercarriage sensor did not work.

[sathor]

I finnaly reread the story, I kept thinking that if it was a jump plane, why didn't he fly around and make the people jump before crashing.... I misread it thinking it said he was the only survivor, instead of the only one still on the plane.