liberty2007

Sorry it's so big.

PottyMouth22

It's ok. They took down the pictures anyway. :P

blastboy

My grandfather was a flight engineer with American for 40 years. In 1976, he was the FE on American flight 625 that crashed at St. Thomas. 37 out of 88 people died in that crash including two flight attendants. In a nutshell, the captain made a poor judgment call and landed half way down the runway. They couldn't go around because in the 727, it takes a while for the engines to spool up to GA power. If they had applied GA thrust, the crash could have been far worse. The captain slammed on the brakes, not even putting the engines in reverse, and skidded over a thousand feet off the runway, blasting through a gas station and ultimately coming to rest at the corner of a rum factory. My grandfather told me this story probably a dozen times in my life and it never ceases to give me the chills. He told me if they had skidded an extra 30 feet, the crew would have perrished in the crash. Bad enough that 37 people passed on. Everytime he told me this story he would look me in the eyes and say "Remember when you start flying the line that there is a hollow tube behind that door full of people. Think before you act, act with good judgment and when in doubt, go around!"

Tylers600rr

is this the NTSB report for that incident

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...31X01039&key=1

blastboy

Nope. The incident you've posted is an F100 in DFW. Just lookup American 625 and see if you get anything.

Ewfflyer

Here's one I bet you never hear of.

Differential flaps in a C-310, flap cable for the right side snapped, makes for a very interesting adverse yaw situation. At first I thought I had lost an engine, the right wing dropped and I had a yaw feel, but then I realized things were bass-ackwards.

Other than that, flat tire on/during landing(student riding brakes!), transponder and DG failures, some other small crap I forget about.

MikeInTx

While soloing at an uncontrolled field at 20 hours TT, 1.5 hrs PIC I got hit with a huge 9 o'clock gust during flare just feet off the runway in a 172 (windsock was 2/3 flaccid). In a matter of 2 seconds, I found myself away from the pavement over dirt with the right wing a couple of feet from the deck. Instinctively executed a perfect go-around, then proceeded directly home to change my shorts.

pete2800

Hey, good thread. I don't have any good stories, but my experience is somewhat limited so I'm sure I'll get some later...

-Ben

CL65driver

A.I. failure in a Baron during hard IMC

APU failure during engine start in the ERJ, at some little podunk airport in mexico with no working air cart... luckily she had barely just enough steam going to start up.

DAU(1) WARN MISCOMPARE caution at FL350, tried to troubleshoot via the QRH an MX, but Mr. Honeywell wouldn't play nice and decided to go nutso on us.

Oh yeah, and a prop strike in a 172RG back during my PPL days.

Planespotta

Well, once in FSX, I had a duel engine failure in a 738 over the Indian Ocean. Managed to land it on a 3,000 foot runway. In real life, . . . well, . . .