Planespotting II
#1171
Re: Planespotting II
Paul Brickhill's book about the dambusters talked about training missions where planes came back with leaves and twigs in the air inlets. The mission was flown at sixty feet above ground level !
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Re: Planespotting II
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...oard-1.4121029
Westjet had an incident this January in Halifax.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...ifax-1.5416933
This one in 2018 in Halifax
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...-747-1.4895103
#1173
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the one I was thinking of can’t have been August 2005. It was later than 2005 and during the winter months.
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This one?
"The Transportation Safety Board has found that approach procedures, poor visibility and reduced airfield lighting led to the March 29, 2015, plane crash at Halifax Stanfield International Airport that injured more than two dozen people. ...."
"The Transportation Safety Board has found that approach procedures, poor visibility and reduced airfield lighting led to the March 29, 2015, plane crash at Halifax Stanfield International Airport that injured more than two dozen people. ...."
Found another but it isn’t the one...
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...m-halifax.html
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Re: Planespotting II
A few years ago a B-1 bomber did a wheels up landing at Diego Garcia. A 285 million dollar aircraft with over $7 million in damage. It’s back flying again. Not sure about the pilot.
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I find it hard to imagine repairing a plane that has performed a wheels-up landing, even if it cost $285 million.
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Re: Planespotting II
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Report: Pilot Error Led To B-1 Belly Landing | Aero-News Network
A career ender, you'd think, for the pilot and co-pilot.
A career ender, you'd think, for the pilot and co-pilot.
Last edited by steveq; Aug 8th 2020 at 5:10 pm.
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Report: Pilot Error Led To B-1 Belly Landing | Aero-News Network
A career ender, you'd think, for the pilot and co-pilot.
A career ender, you'd think, for the pilot and co-pilot.
I would have thought that a fail-safe system would be preferable, whereby if you drop below, say, 1,000ft and simultaneously slow below, say, 200kts, that the landing gear should automatically deploy, unless deliberately overridden.
Last edited by Pulaski; Aug 8th 2020 at 6:38 pm.