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Umm, WTF ?



I guess they tried this in real life?

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I guess they tried this in real life?

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Hell yeah Calvin and Hobbs. I basically was Calvin as a child, minus the imaginary friend but with all the antics and pretending to be a dinosaur. Idk how my parents were able to deal with it because I look back as an adult and realize how abnormal I was compared to all the other kids. I mean who gets suspended multiple times in Kindergarten? I even got suspended from high school many years later for photos of very inappropriate snowmen I made thousands of miles away in MSP over winter break because the school was stalking my MySpace LOL. It's like Bill Watterson was there for my childhood.
 
This was nearly 20 yrs ago. A bunch of idiots went for a joyride in an empty plane.
The CVR transcript for that one was wild. As crazy as it seems, I recall our banned amigo Todd was part of the investigation and said the CVR transcript that the public has access to was actually cleaned up and less profane and what not then the real recording. Which says a lot.

Here is a PDF link to the CVR transcript: https://tailstrike.com/media/il2bjcd1/151004.pdf

EDIT: Also, you know it has happened more than once in the 121 world, right? People do mess around with planes outside of part 91, not always leading to accidents, as I recall that Xjet E145 that very aggressively buzzed a Mexican beach on a revenue flight and that kind of stuff for example, but it happens. Off the top of my head, there was also this Northwest Airlines 727-200 on a ferry flight. All 3 pilots were 32-35 and they decided to have some fun on their way to go pick up the Buffalo Bills NFL team and see if an empty 727 could break the sound barrier. They forgot to turn on the pitot heaters, and since they decided to try and break the speed of sound in a 727 (the Wiki article doesn't seem to pick up on how they were messing around), they thought the stick shaker was just mach buffet and then they stalled at a high AOA and went down. That CVR is very similar to Pinnacle 3701, lots of laughter and "Hell yeah, awesome, man!" followed by "OMG". Do you not think the average regional pilot has only become less mature in those 20 years?


Report with CVR: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7513.pdf
 
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The CVR transcript for that one was wild. As crazy as it seems, I recall our banned amigo Todd was part of the investigation and said the CVR transcript that the public has access to was actually cleaned up and less profane and what not then the real recording. Which says a lot.

Here is a PDF link to the CVR transcript: https://tailstrike.com/media/il2bjcd1/151004.pdf

EDIT: Also, you know it has happened more than once in the 121 world, right? People do mess around with planes outside of part 91, not always leading to accidents, as I recall that Xjet E145 that very aggressively buzzed a Mexican beach on a revenue flight and that kind of stuff for example, but it happens. Off the top of my head, there was also this Northwest Airlines 727-200 on a ferry flight. All 3 pilots were 32-35 and they decided to have some fun on their way to go pick up the Buffalo Bills NFL team and see if an empty 727 could break the sound barrier. They forgot to turn on the pitot heaters, and since they decided to try and break the speed of sound in a 727 (the Wiki article doesn't seem to pick up on how they were messing around), they thought the stick shaker was just mach buffet and then they stalled at a high AOA and went down. That CVR is very similar to Pinnacle 3701, lots of laughter and "Hell yeah, awesome, man!" followed by "OMG". Do you not think the average regional pilot has only become less mature in those 20 years?


Report with CVR: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7513.pdf
I hadn't heard of the NWA crash so I am not a SME by any means. However, the pdf link you provided doesn't offer any evidence that they were screwing around. Again, I don't know the full story, but the crash report makes it sound like an honest mistake with the pitot tubes icing up.
 
The CVR transcript for that one was wild. As crazy as it seems, I recall our banned amigo Todd was part of the investigation and said the CVR transcript that the public has access to was actually cleaned up and less profane and what not then the real recording. Which says a lot.

Here is a PDF link to the CVR transcript: https://tailstrike.com/media/il2bjcd1/151004.pdf

EDIT: Also, you know it has happened more than once in the 121 world, right? People do mess around with planes outside of part 91, not always leading to accidents, as I recall that Xjet E145 that very aggressively buzzed a Mexican beach on a revenue flight and that kind of stuff for example, but it happens. Off the top of my head, there was also this Northwest Airlines 727-200 on a ferry flight. All 3 pilots were 32-35 and they decided to have some fun on their way to go pick up the Buffalo Bills NFL team and see if an empty 727 could break the sound barrier. They forgot to turn on the pitot heaters, and since they decided to try and break the speed of sound in a 727 (the Wiki article doesn't seem to pick up on how they were messing around), they thought the stick shaker was just mach buffet and then they stalled at a high AOA and went down. That CVR is very similar to Pinnacle 3701, lots of laughter and "Hell yeah, awesome, man!" followed by "OMG". Do you not think the average regional pilot has only become less mature in those 20 years?


Report with CVR: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7513.pdf
Damn ...
 
 
I hadn't heard of the NWA crash so I am not a SME by any means. However, the pdf link you provided doesn't offer any evidence that they were screwing around. Again, I don't know the full story, but the crash report makes it sound like an honest mistake with the pitot tubes icing up.
I was assuming the report had the CVR transcript, does it not? I never read the full report, just the CVR transcript and what was outlined in a crash investigation book series about this accident. The whole reason they stalled was they were trying to mess around and thought the ASI was accurately flying off the handle in response to their actions, not because of a pitot failure. If you read the transcript, it is all right there, but as the accident uncovered a fatal flaw in the 727 and no one but the crew was killed with no property damage below, I suppose that became the focus rather than the professionalism of the crew. An investigator told Boeing something like "It is pure luck that this first happened on a ferry flight" regarding the ASI behavior. It is covered well in this book: Air Disaster, Vol. 1: MacArthur Job: 9781875671113: Amazon.com: Books

The whole series of Air Disaster is amazing, I learned a ton from those books. Sadly, the author died several years ago, so there will be no new volumes.
 
It was an example of play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
but the corpie overrun this thread is about wasn’t?

Sorry, just because it’s almost always corporate cowboys doing cowboy stuff doesn’t mean we just sweep it under the rug and change the subject then an airline crew cowboys up.
 
but the corpie overrun this thread is about wasn’t?

Sorry, just because it’s almost always corporate cowboys doing cowboy stuff doesn’t mean we just sweep it under the rug and change the subject then an airline crew cowboys up.

It’s not even close. That 410 club is a rare exception in 121, and nothing like that since. The corporate world since 2004 has had tons. Stuff like: not even rated in the jet. No flight control check leading to missed gust lock, no checklist, many CTL fatals,
 
I was assuming the report had the CVR transcript, does it not? I never read the full report, just the CVR transcript and what was outlined in a crash investigation book series about this accident. The whole reason they stalled was they were trying to mess around and thought the ASI was accurately flying off the handle in response to their actions, not because of a pitot failure. If you read the transcript, it is all right there, but as the accident uncovered a fatal flaw in the 727 and no one but the crew was killed with no property damage below, I suppose that became the focus rather than the professionalism of the crew. An investigator told Boeing something like "It is pure luck that this first happened on a ferry flight" regarding the ASI behavior. It is covered well in this book: Air Disaster, Vol. 1: MacArthur Job: 9781875671113: Amazon.com: Books

The whole series of Air Disaster is amazing, I learned a ton from those books. Sadly, the author died several years ago, so there will be no new volumes.


I have all 3 volumes plus the prop era volume.


I disagree with their assessment of “pure luck it happened on a ferry flight.”

It’s the fact BECAUSE they were ferrying empty they thought they had that much crazy climb performance. Had it been a full flight with passengers, they would have known there’s no way a full 727 could climb like that. It’s in the transcript too, they make commments like I can’t believe this climb performance, and yeah man we’re empty, etc etc.

Being empty actually helped to mentally reinforce to them that this is just an empty plane climbing like a rocket.
 
It’s not even close. That 410 club is a rare exception in 121, and nothing like that since. The corporate world since 2004 has had tons. Stuff like: not even rated in the jet. No flight control check leading to missed gust lock, no checklist, many CTL fatals,
I get all that and I agree with your assessment. But you’re ignoring mine.
 
We use regional FOs as an example of lack of professionalism (which is easy since so many look 12), and as a pax I've seen to notice some regional CAs that are also young and clearly just there as a stopping point.

But I've actually grow fond of the eccentric regional CAs who are up there a bit in age and (I would assume) may have plans to stay on the regional side. I've had several of them in the last year - they tend to give very detailed passenger briefs and just come off as more friendly over the PA. Spoke with one a few months ago about why the 175 fishtails so much in the back, and he gave me a really interesting lesson on how the yaw damper doesn't connect to the A/P (or something like that).

Can't recall his name, but I did a leg on an OO CR2 last week with a great CA. Let me come up to the cockpit during our intermittent stop and chatted with me for a good 15-minutes about the industry, the CR2, etc. Was really impressed with the guy's knowledge and professionalism. Medium/large build bald African American gentleman probably in his early 50s if that narrows it down for anyone. Really enjoyed being on his flight.
 
This was nearly 20 yrs ago. A bunch of idiots went for a joyride in an empty plane.
20 years, 20 months…what your point. Pretty similar to this G150!

Seems to me pilots can sometimes be idiots regardless (or irregardless for those of you that enjoy using double negatives) of what they fly or under which Part. Doesn’t make one group any less prone to answering for their stupidity.

THIS flight (3701) does have the rare distinction of be the “..most blatant display of indiscipline ever investigated by the NTSB…” Commies gotta be Commies!
 
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