Read on another forum that a Catalina with six persons on board landed on one engine at Carlisle yesterday. So the report went, one engine developed an oil leak and was shut down.
It said it had flown from Duxford. No harm to occupants or damage to aeroplane.
Roger Smith.
By: spade grip - 17th June 2007 at 20:40
She’s OK now as she flew over my house in North Staffordshire at 17.30hrs en route back to Duxford:D
By: cessna152towser - 17th June 2007 at 17:43
Thanks for posting those, Blue Robin, beat me to it!
The reference to the propeller being still attached, in the caption to the first photo, was in response to media reports that it landed with one propeller.
By: duxfordhawk - 17th June 2007 at 00:37
When she first arrived in the Uk at Duxford she had a feathered prop, Remember the role the Catalina was originally designed a feathered prop is nothing new or dramatic.
By: BlueRobin - 16th June 2007 at 22:59
From forumite cessna152towser
The other (starboard) propeller was still attached but it was feathered.
One big oil slick
Which the airport fire service helped to wash off.
Leaving the Catalina nice and clean..
By: Feather #3 - 16th June 2007 at 22:44
Bit like BA’s famous 3-engine ferry with pax which “force landed” at Manchester really. Although, to be balanced, MAN wasn’t the destination.
G’day 😉
By: David Legg - 16th June 2007 at 15:13
Having read that press report, I’m minded to think that the description is almost certainly far more dramatic than the truth. More likely is that the very experienced crew in command noted an oil leak, either through routine monitoring of t&ps or from visial inspection, shut the engine down as a precaution and proceeded to the destination airport, Carlisle in this case. Hardly a forced landing and given that Carlisle was the intended destination anyway and that the flight was a transit and not a display I’m not even sure that precautionary is appropriate as they were going to land there anyway. As usual, the media desperate for a story. A more appropriate description would be that “the Catalina arrived on the power of one engine”. Nothing emotive, everything under control.
By: xtangomike - 16th June 2007 at 14:33
‘Forced landing’
The correct pilot’s wording for this landing would be a ‘precautionary landing’.
If the aircraft was unable to maintain normal flying attitudes the pilot would have to decare a ’emergancy’, and force land the aircraft wherever as soon as possible.
In this case, the pilot would asses that to continue on one engine was feasable, but increased the danger to the aircraft and all persons aboard if the second engine should fail. He would therefore take the decision to land at the nearest arfield or safe landing ground as a precautionary landing.
By: BlueRobin - 16th June 2007 at 14:17
The source http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=510989
Any problem, the airfield may put the crash crew on standby as a precaution.
By: atr42 - 16th June 2007 at 13:21
Mmm, If it’s planned and expected then its voluntary. If it’s not planned or expected it is forced upon you?
By: Fouga23 - 16th June 2007 at 13:12
One engine down. I call that a “forced ” landing.
By: David Legg - 16th June 2007 at 13:08
The title of this thread immediately caught my eye and it prompted me to look up the (or at least a) definition of what constitutes a ‘forced landing’. My trusty 1945 volumn of The Aeronautical Dictionary published by Pitman in the USA describes it as “Any landing that is not voluntary. It may be due to structural failure, bad weather, lack of fuel etc..” The Catalina involved yesterday was G-PBYA out of Duxford and was landing at Carlisle as its intended destination and where it will be based this weekend as part of the Whitehaven International Maritime Festival. The Cat is quite capable of flying on one engine provided the other’s prop is feathered and so I wonder of the term ‘forced’ in this instance is somewhat dramatic?
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