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By: 18th August 2014 at 15:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
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By: 18th August 2014 at 17:00 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Well there's plenty more candidates for that list....the crew and supernumerary pilot on the Sioux Falls DC-10....Captain DW Phillips in VC-10 G-ASIX....the crew on the Continental 747 at Gatwick....the A330 glide to the Azores
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232
http://www.british-caledonian.com/BCal_G-ASIX_Flight_over_the_Andes_1.html
http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/4-1989%20N605PE.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
The female First Officer on the Aloha 243 deserves a mention, too
http://www.tailstrike.com/Photos/Aloha%20243%202.JPG
I think most of it is on the net, though :-)
By: 18th August 2014 at 18:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-First time have read the G-ASIX story, Vickers built one strong plane.
By: 18th August 2014 at 20:00 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-My favourite was Pan Am flight 843 on 28 June 1965, The Captain safely landed his Boeing 707 with 3 engines and half a right wing. Basically one of his engines and 25 foot of his wing fell off. Fully laden plane with fuel and 153 passengers on board. Takes some skill to put the bird down safely.
By: 19th August 2014 at 06:08 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-My favourite was Pan Am flight 843 on 28 June 1965, The Captain safely landed his Boeing 707 with 3 engines and half a right wing. Basically one of his engines and 25 foot of his wing fell off. Fully laden plane with fuel and 153 passengers on board. Takes some skill to put the bird down safely.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19650628-0
Crew: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 10
Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 143
Total: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 153
Pan Am flight 843 experienced an explosive disintegration of the third stage turbine disk of the No. 4 engine. The accident occurred shortly after takeoff from San Francisco, at an altitude of about 800 feet above the ground.
Disintegration of the turbine disk was followed by a fire in the No. 4 engine area and an explosion in the outboard reserve fuel tank. The No. 4 engine and approximately 25 feet of the right outer wing separated from the aircraft.
The fire was extinguished and a successful emergency landing was accomplished at Travis Air Force Base, California, with no injuries to the 143 passengers or 10 crewmembers aboard the flight.
Taken from rear of right wing. Outboard pylon can be seen under wing.
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By: 19th August 2014 at 06:33 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-http://khon2.com/2014/05/09/aloha-airlines-pilot-describes-what-happened-when-roof-blew-off-plane/
It’s been 26 years since the roof of Aloha Airlines Flight 243 ripped off. On Friday, one of the pilots who helped land the plane at Kahului Airport spoke about the experience.
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Mimi Tompkins was the flight’s co-pilot. At a safety conference, she described the moment a portion of the plane’s fuselage tore off.
“I was flying the airplane, I was leveling off at 24,000 feet and then it felt like I had been kicked in the chest,” she said.
Tompkins said all the training she went through kicked in that day.
“Those 10 or 12 seconds my body continued to fly the airplane, but I don’t have much conscious memories of those seconds,” she said. “Then, when I did start to register what was going on around me, I heard my first flight instructor’s words, which were ‘Fly the airplane, fly the airplane.'”
Tompkins gained international fame after a television movie, “Miracle Landing,” was made about the incident.
By: 25th August 2014 at 10:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I'm not sure the Qantas A380 is worthy of such a list.
Great job yes, but no real skill was involved in that nothing the flight crew (of 5!) did made a fatal situation survivable because the incident was not in any real danger of being fatal, unless the crew were hopelessly unable to fly a plane. It was just a spectacular engine failure on a plane with 4 engines.
By: 25th August 2014 at 13:22 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The the TACA110 landing was far more skilled than the Hudson ditching and carries out by a pilot with one eye.
Another for the list was the BOAC Boeing 707 (G-ARWE) with an uncontained engine fire 1968? that turned back to LHR and landed on the crosswind runway with the airframe shedding parts as he made the turn.
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By: DavidIsby - 18th August 2014 at 15:00
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-9-most-heroic-airline-pilots-of-all-time-2014-8
The absence of Captain Charles Martin of the Bermuda Sky Queen, among many others, shows a lack of historical research.
It's not all on the Internet.