Delta flight 1080
02-17-2015, 05:57 PM
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Delta flight 1080
Looking for information about this flight back in 1991 out of San diego. Their nose trim jammed full up prior to take off while the indication was normal. I'm curios if there is a write and/or video about this somewhere. I curious to hear how the crew worked through this problem and landed safely.
02-17-2015, 06:15 PM
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They made a whole movie about it, and BTW, nobody could have landed that airplane like I did!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugsQQKn0muQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugsQQKn0muQ
02-17-2015, 06:32 PM
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The L-1011 was one lucky airplane, the number of near-misses in that thing is remarkable--EAL had the 3-engine "glider" inbound to MIA after loss of oil in all three; we had a 2-engine ferry lose an engine during flap retraction; TW had one collapse the pressure bulkhead and divert into Hilo; the " stall" resulting in a fiery crash following an aborted take-off Ag JFK, the list goes on.
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02-17-2015, 06:41 PM
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And I heard a story about one at Delta that had a water leak in the aft galley. The water found it's way under the floor and dripped down to freeze in a ball around the control cables for the elevator, jamming it against the pullys! The story goes, it took both pilots pulling on the yoke with their feet on the panel, to get the nose up enough to flare to land!
02-17-2015, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by whataclub
Looking for information about this flight back in 1991 out of San diego. Their nose trim jammed full up prior to take off while the indication was normal. I'm curios if there is a write and/or video about this somewhere. I curious to hear how the crew worked through this problem and landed safely.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/p...ain_H-2048.pdf
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02-18-2015, 12:03 AM
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Originally Posted by tomgoodman
It was actually in 1977, an L-1011 which had the left stabilizer jam full nose-up. Capt. Jack McMahan had to use differential thrust (#1 & #3 at idle and #2 firewalled) to get the pitch back down. The incident is mentioned in this NASA study:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/p...ain_H-2048.pdf
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/p...ain_H-2048.pdf
02-18-2015, 05:00 AM
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If you're willing to pay a couple of bucks, Capt. McMahans wrote it all out himself.
http://www.aahs-online.org/journals/...l_template.php vol_no=v50n4#Article%204
http://www.aahs-online.org/journals/...l_template.php vol_no=v50n4#Article%204
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