Instances of crew abandoning an airliner in flight?

Well remembered! Two survived and one died after parachuting from the plane. 😮

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19720201-1

Wasn’t a Fokker-VFW 614 abandoned in flight by a crew during a test flight that went wrong?

Must have been early 70s and I’m not too sure of the exact type/designation/ manufacturer.

Cheers.

It would have cost “peanuts” to fit an external antenna.

This reminded me very much of the experiments they did during the war,
in trying to blow up the U-Boat pens. When Joseph Kennedy Jnr was killed
during Operation Aphrodite.

i think it was the budget restrictions that limited the remote control
but what they managed was fantastic

I watched the documentary too. I couldn’t help wondering why they had so much trouble with the radio control system. I thought drone technology had been used for decades without needing a chase plane nearby – especially during missile tests, so it seemed like they were re-inventing the wheel?

The only one I can think of is when NASA did the same experiment in the ’80s, except their’s was a failure.
😀

Ah no, NASA’s Boeing 720 was flown remotely at take off and throughout all of its 9 minute flight.

First prototypes for airliners normally have an emergency egress route leading to parachute hatch for when they do the high risk flying.

The only one I can think of is when NASA did the same experiment in the ’80s, except their’s was a failure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7lBeaceQKg

It’s certainly not common practice, I don’t know about you but I’ve never seen my captain stepping on-board clasping a parachute? 😀