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So I wonder if the relief FO called out the altitude? 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 0... :D

does the number go negative? I've seen 0 without a touchdown but never a negative.

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1079174)

So I wonder if the relief FO called out the altitude? 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 0... :D

does the number go negative? I've seen 0 without a touchdown but never a negative.

It does go negative. Not because of my landings :D but when it sits at the gate, it's at -6 or so. It's because of the nose up attitude on approach - 0 is right at main gear touchdown.

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Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 1079081)

Yes, A loss of the center system causes a loss of a critical etops component the HMG. It also presents all kinds of other issues from fumes to fire to what happens if you had to divert for another reason such as a additional mechanical or medical. The FAA is going to have a lot of questions. The good news is the positive press will help the crew.

you know it's one thing to have flown the BA 744 LAX-LHR on 3 engines but you bring up an excellent point. For the BA 744 it was still an airplane that could land anywhere, the LOT 767 was guaranteed to have a gear up. It was an emergency the entire crossing.

One could say "well, the chances of that happening..." "nothing is going to happen..." but that reminds me of a conversation I had with a Cessna Caravan sales rep. He promised me the Caravan has a PT6, it is the worlds most reliable engine, it never fails!

But not longer after I'm in King Air school and all they can talk about is when the engine quits... the engine of course being a PT6 which supposedly never fails, unless you have two of them then we talk about failures.

Saying nothing would happen en route is to have

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Originally Posted by iaflyer (Post 1079176)

It does go negative. Not because of my landings :D but when it sits at the gate, it's at -6 or so. It's because of the nose up attitude on approach - 0 is right at main gear touchdown.

You know what I think I remember that now.

It's all a fog really. I feel like telling people, I once flew for this airline that had 767s and we flew them to Europe. Now I fly for this other airline and I fly an elongated DC-9. Two different airl... wait a minute...

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Hey, airlinepilotforums.com/any"latest&greatest"abouDelta? didn't make the top 3!!?

Hey, Didn't you just copy and reproduce something?

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1079183)

Hey, airlinepilotforums.com/any"latest&greatest"abouDelta? didn't make the top 3!!?

What's even funnier is that you copied content from DeltaNet to put that on here. :D

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1079105)

I wonder how well the crew rested on that flight? :D

Not to mention what if it were a single green FO with a 64.9 year old Captain doing 2 pilot ops after a magical ATA-fantasy "domicile reset", 10 hour block, 3 hour ETOPS and this happened at the ETP and the old guy checked out. I guess that's why they sell insurance.

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Originally Posted by captainv (Post 1079141)

according to snopes.com, the Air China incident you mention was actually the damaged engine from the DHL A-300 that took a missile hit over Baghdad.

snopes.com: Air China Jet Engine

the vertical fin from that A300 serves as the gate guard at the DHL sort facility in Leipzig, EDDP.

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Originally Posted by Check Essential (Post 1079027)

Here's proof they still had main bus electrical power. The landing lights, strobes and beacon are on:

After watching that video, I'm certain I didn't see any passenger windows. Also, the aircraft is entirely gray, more like a military plane than an airliner. And there were funny shadows under the wings, the kind of shadows that could only be made by gas tanks or rockets.

It's rather obvious that this is a military tanker, maybe a KC-135 based on the size, and the real mission was to close the Warsaw airport because that's where they keep the records that prove George Bush hates New Orleans and he ordered the levees to be blown up.

Or maybe it was a cruise missile, which would explain why there was no landing gear. Which of course means that the photos showing a 767 landing in a shower of sparks are forgeries, planted by Fox News.