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METO Guido 05-03-2024 02:25 PM
Originally Posted by worstpilotever (Post 3798545)
I believe they lost 2 more after the initial failure....3 in total or partial power loss on one and 2 total failures..cant remember all the details. cockpit came to rest on side or almost upside down.
Worked overtop those hillsides quite a bit. Gorgeous landscape. There was a 10 freighter landed halfway down, saw it wouldn’t work, tried to go then changed their mind. Went sailing off into a cow pasture. All survived. A big top at Medellin rejected late on a wet surface ran down into the north valley, everyone but egos ok I think. Fresh cut flowers. Never really thought about the ax. Like the raft signal mirror and patch kit, lucky if you get the chance to use them?

arkboy105 05-11-2024 04:58 PM
Originally Posted by tom11011 (Post 3795411)
Is anyone aware of any circumstance where a commercial airliners crash axe was used for any reason? In all my years of flying I cannot recall this as a topic of discussion.
It was used by the co-pilot to escape the cockpit of Comair 9151 following the post-crash fire. Despite extensive burns, he was able to extricate himself through the windshield using the axe. He would eventually return to the cockpit to fly another day. The use of the axe was something mentioned on a documentary I saw years ago.


​https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comair_Flight_5191

A320 05-12-2024 08:51 AM
Originally Posted by tom11011 (Post 3795411)
Is anyone aware of any circumstance where a commercial airliners crash axe was used for any reason? In all my years of flying I cannot recall this as a topic of discussion.
a long time ago post 9/11 and pre reinforced cockpit doors on a 777 some knuckle head was breaching the cockpit door through the blowout panels. The captain was on break in the cabin, and one of the FOs bashed the breacher in the head with the crash axe. It worked.

tom11011 05-12-2024 03:26 PM
Originally Posted by arkboy105 (Post 3801497)
It was used by the co-pilot to escape the cockpit of Comair 9151 following the post-crash fire. Despite extensive burns, he was able to extricate himself through the windshield using the axe. He would eventually return to the cockpit to fly another day. The use of the axe was something mentioned on a documentary I saw years ago.


​https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comair_Flight_5191
Good find thank you.

tom11011 05-12-2024 03:27 PM
Originally Posted by A320 (Post 3801674)
a long time ago post 9/11 and pre reinforced cockpit doors on a 777 some knuckle head was breaching the cockpit door through the blowout panels. The captain was on break in the cabin, and one of the FOs bashed the breacher in the head with the crash axe. It worked.
Thank you.

John Carr 05-12-2024 05:06 PM
Originally Posted by A320 (Post 3801674)
a long time ago post 9/11 and pre reinforced cockpit doors on a 777 some knuckle head was breaching the cockpit door through the blowout panels. The captain was on break in the cabin, and one of the FOs bashed the breacher in the head with the crash axe. It worked.
Depending on whom is telling the story, see post 5.

Originally Posted by tom11011 (Post 3801794)
Thank you.
It was already brought up the day you started the thread.

METO Guido 05-12-2024 07:46 PM
Originally Posted by arkboy105 (Post 3801497)
It was used by the co-pilot to escape the cockpit of Comair 9151 following the post-crash fire. Despite extensive burns, he was able to extricate himself through the windshield using the axe. He would eventually return to the cockpit to fly another day. The use of the axe was something mentioned on a documentary I saw years ago.
Sole survivor of a 50 onboard CRJ crash. Extracted from wreckage by 1st responders. Departure RW pilot error. Head trauma, collapsed lung, leg amputation. Occurring 6 years after recovery from accidental GSW in the abdomen fired by ex wife. Paul Bunyan of aircraft axe tales.

Halon1211 05-13-2024 03:48 AM
Originally Posted by Rolf (Post 3796157)
One of ours had his butter knife confiscated by TSA and used the axe to spread peanut butter on his bagel.
let’s start a new thread on the cockpit’s fire gloves. We must get really bored sometimes.

tom11011 05-13-2024 07:42 AM
Originally Posted by Halon1211 (Post 3801898)
let’s start a new thread on the cockpit’s fire gloves. We must get really bored sometimes.
We don't have those?

CLE to IAH 05-13-2024 05:32 PM
Originally Posted by arkboy105 (Post 3801497)
It was used by the co-pilot to escape the cockpit of Comair 9151 following the post-crash fire. Despite extensive burns, he was able to extricate himself through the windshield using the axe. He would eventually return to the cockpit to fly another day. The use of the axe was something mentioned on a documentary I saw years ago.


​https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comair_Flight_5191
I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure he never flew again


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