Next to that a spin around Duxford in a DH.89 Dragon Rapide.
OOo, I’m jealous. Share your pictures.
Delta: MD-80, 767-300/400, L-1011
Continental: 737-100/200/300/500/700/800/900, DC-9, MD-80, 757-200/300, DC-10
United: 737-200/300/500, 757-200, 777, DC-10, DC-8, 727
Air Canada: 747
Air France: 747
Northwest: DC-9
ExpressJet: Be1900D, EMB-135/145
ASA: CRJ-200/700
Skywest: CRJ-200
PSA: Do328
PSA (original): 727
Mesaba: CRJ-900
Chautauqua: EMB-145
Frontier: A320
Mississippi Valley Airlines: Shorts 360
Piedmont: 737, 727
Southwest: 737
Aloha: 737-200
I’m sure there are more but I don’t remember what the airline was or the equipment. It helped a bit that the local airport changed from a UAL to CO hub over the years.
So what was the story with the (I think) United F/A who famously flew into her 80’s?
Cabin crew have no age limit but flight crews have to retire by 65.
USAir also had a bird strike in 2004 that caused a 737 to veer off a runway in Pittsburgh. No one was hurt.
In 1989, another USAir flight headed for Charlotte crashed. The Boeing 737 aborted takeoff and skidded into the East River, killing two passengers. The National Transportation Safety Board later blamed the pilot’s slow response in deciding whether or not to take off with a rudder that was out of adjustment.
In 1992, a USAir Fokker F-28 crashed after taking off from LaGuardia, killing 2. A 1994 USAir crash in Pittsburgh killed 132 people. Investigators said the plane’s rudder jammed after being moved too far in one direction.
Technically this accident was an America West flight. After the merger they just took the USAirways name.
Don’t forget you can’t be made to retire in the US. They may have another 30 years flying in them!
Mandatory retirement age was extended from 60 to 65 years old a little over a year ago.
Well, what’s the right answer? I would have guessed further north or west than Florida due to the lack of palm trees.
There’s a picture of the A320 gliding to the river? Do you have a link?
Maybe now the Unions with shut up and let Boeing do whats best for the company!
And what if the company decides that it’s in their best interest to level pay cuts, force mandatory overtime, cut benefits, raise insurance costs, etc. At what point do you feel that an employee at a company has the right to say no more? Publicly held companies are responsible to their shareholders, not their employees. Unfortunately a good number of companies fail to realize that you can’t sacrifice one for the other.
The 753’s aren’t ETOPS certified so they’ll need to take care of that too. All these years they’ve been flying them and they are stuck flying domestic.
It seems that the crew may have aborted after V1 after 1 engine injested the bird.
Sorry if this has been posted earlier, but the blame has apparently been laid at the door of a Kestrel flying into one of the engines.
I’m pretty sure the 747 is certified to fly on 3 engines. I didn’t quite get from the article why a bird killing 1 engine would result in a crash.
Although in unfortunate circumstances, its looks like it was “lucky” to end up where it did – right next to the fire station.
On another forum a pilot who was next in line to takeoff behind the CAL flight said that the emergency trucks actually left the station, turned right and proceeded to the approach end of the runway dispite the tower controller telling them the aircraft was immediately to their left. After finding 2, non-burning, aircraft sitting there they realized that there was a glow from a burning aircraft back towards the station and returned there to deal with the CAL aircraft. Sounds like they are lucky folks evacuated without their assistance. I think that fire station is going to get a good talking to.
Here’s a file depicting the accident. Gives a better sense how far off the runway they ended up.
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2008/1222/20081222_120721_CD22CRASH_GRAPH.pdf
They were carrying some serious speed when the problem(s) started to end up there.
Of course as soon as a say that there’s 1 initial direction they are looking, the brakes.
Nothing official yet. The few passenger interviews I’ve seen mentioned that they heard a thump and then the aircraft went off the runway soon there after. Now we don’t know if that “thump” caused it or perhaps was only a result of something else that the crew had been dealing with prior. It’ll be interesting to find out in a few months what could have happened on a takeoff that would have lead to such a dramatic finish. Truly amazing that only a few injuries resulted.
Approach currency is maintained in simulators. We have to fly 2 full Cat II’s every 6 months for captains and 12 months for FO’s. There isn’t any requirement to fly them in real life and know a few pilots that have been Cat II trained for 5 years and never done it in real life.