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  • Emergency Landings

    Have you ever been on a plane that's been involved in an emergency landing when you were on it?

    I have been through 2 emergency landings and they are quite a thrill ride.

    1st was a MetroJet 737-200 in Nov. 1998, a goose was ingested in the starboard engine and we had to land.

    Here's a Firefighter looking into the engine of the plane.

    2nd was a US Airways A320 in Jul. 2002, when warning lights in the cockpit came on and told the pilot there was smoke. (that's what they told us)
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    This is the A320 we were on.

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    Re: Emergency Landings

    Originally posted by Greg
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    No, but Radomir likes to take trips to Maxton and I heard every landing of his in an emergency.

    "You can run but you'll die tired."
    Semper Fidelis
    United States Marine Corp !

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    • #3
      I saw an AF 319 abort take-off today...they just taxied around and had a succesfull second try...

      -Clovis

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      • #4
        Are we talking about virtual emergency landings? If I understand how FS software works, I believe you can program stuff to happen.

        If we're talking reality, then yes. And I knew it was happening before they announced it to the rest of the passengers.

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        • #5
          We are talking about Reality, it is much more fun.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Greg
            We are talking about Reality, it is much more fun.
            Unless you crash....
            Earl From Regina

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Greg
              We are talking about Reality, it is much more fun.
              sorry,double post
              Earl From Regina

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              • #8
                Back around 1966 I was riding in a non-fan 707 that was transiting a squall line somewhere between TUL and OKC. Because it was an early model aircraft and somewhat underpowered it was unable to climb above the weather with the fuel load onboard. We were experiencing fairly high turbulence and I was in a perfect seat position to watch the wing flexing. After one particularly hard downdraft-updraft transition the #3 engine separated from the airframe. I watched it go and it was a classic engine separation. You could see the forward sheer pin let go first and then the aft shear pin as the engine departed. There were even little puffs of fuel and hydraulic fluid visible until the automatic cutoffs worked. One of the most interesting things I ever actually saw while in flight. Since there was no further damage the flight continued to the destination at DEN but emergency crews were called out for landing just in case.

                After the flight I learned that a DC-8 on the same airway and only 5 miles ahead of our aircraft had also reported an engine separation at about the same spot. Ever since I have laughed about the poor Oklahoma farmer who had 2 jet engines come crashing down on his farm and is still waiting for the rest of the plane to hit.

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                • #9
                  I saw this emergency landing. It was a Cathay Pacific A340-300 to Tokyo that returned to Hong Kong intl. airport 20 mins int the flight because smoke was detected in the crew resting area. I even got a pic:

                  Cathay Pacific A340 to Tokyo seen with an emergency services escort post landing after declaring an inflight emergency due to smoke in the crew area.. B-HXC. Airbus A340-313X. JetPhotos.com is the biggest database of aviation photographs with over 5 million screened photos online!
                  "The Director also sets the record straight on what would happen if oxygen masks were to drop from the ceiling: The passengers freak out with abandon, instead of continuing to chat amiably, as though lunch were being served, like they do on those in-flight safety videos."

                  -- The LA Times, in a review of 'Flightplan'

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                  • #10
                    On approach to Oran Algeria in an Air Canada DC8 freighter we had hydraulic failure. We had to fly over to Algiers with the gear down and the flaps partially down (20 to 30 minutes away). Landing was straight in with no reversers. The fire trucks chased us down the runway. I've never seen brakes so hot on an aircraft. We arrived near midnight and did they glow. We were up all night repairing the aircraft. We had three pilots, a maintenance man and me, the loadmaster onboard plus a load of telephone equipment. It was our first flight into Algeria.

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                    • #11
                      I made a landing in an AA737-800 last april after strong vibrations from rear cabin after takeoff. There was a problem with the stamblelizer

                      737's never again!!!
                      Meridian 777

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                      • #12
                        Fuel quantity guage went to 500 pounds once while we were flying around off the coast of San Diego........ no big thing really, as we had just left Miramar, so we "should" have been O.K. Bummer was, I was going to get some FCLP's at a little island off the coast, but the pilot decided we should head back just incase. I guess he did not want a parachute ride and a swim.

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                        • #13
                          Would that be NOLF San Nicholas or San Clemente Jeff?

                          Farthest I ever got out to sea in SoCal was Catalina Island in an Archer

                          -Clovis

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                          • #14
                            Been in at least 2 that I noticed and remember (could have been more so expertly handled the passengers never knew).

                            1) glider somewhere in Germanny near Bonn. Was invited for a ride, launchcable snapped and tore through the wing. Aircraft dropped straight down to the ground from maybe 20 meter up. No damage except a few shaken people and a hole in the wing.
                            Fixed it up with some ducttape and we took off again with a new cable.

                            2) Aeroflot Tu-154 at Alme Ata. Flight from Tashkent to Irkutsk with a planned stop in Alma Ata. Due to a serious fuelleak the aircraft had to make an emergency landing, crashtenders lining the runway. Caused a 22 hour delay, giving us a chance to get used to Soviet hospitality firsthand as we were locked up (literally, doors locked with armed guards in front) for 20 hours in a waiting room. some 30 foreigners in all in a room with only 2 couches and 1 toilet.

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                            • #15
                              This will be the least dramatic of them all...

                              The closest I have come to any kind of emergency is taxiing out to the runway and then turning back to the terminal because of a faulty warning light on an Ansett Australia 737 (ADL-MEL).

                              The irony was that although we were an hour late getting into MEL, our connecting flight to HBA (Ansett Australia BAe 146) was delayed another two hours on the ground because of an engine problem.

                              Thankfully this is as serious as it has ever been for me. I hope that continues, too!
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