Air Emergency (the show)

SeanD

SeanD

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Did anyone catch Air Emergency lastnight on the National Geographic Channel. They had 3 episodes in a row. I always thought that story about the Russian pilot who let his 15 year old son in the cockpit which eventually lead to a the plane crashing was an urban legend. I had no clue it was actually true. Anyone else watch it?
 
SeanD said:
The AA crash in Arkansas. A mid air with a Russian ailiner and a DHL. The Air Transat incident where they ran out of fuel over the Atlantic.
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Is that the one where they glided some 80 miles to land on an island?
 
SeanD said:
The AA crash in Arkansas.
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I've seen that one so many times, I practically have it memorized. Our CRM class (initial and first recurrent) used it as their "focus accident".

It reminded me of college where every single class made us watch the Delta 191 thing. I had the CVR of that in my head for years...

"Lightning comin' out of that one."
 
If anyone is interested or not working they are showing a 3 show block right now on the National Geographic channel. Doing the ASA 529 crash at the moment.
 
It's a really good shows. I bet a learned about a lot of things to be careful about when I'm flying. Some of the episodes is really sad though like the Alaska MD-80 crash in Los Angeles one. The pilots were doomed. They did everything they could, but the company was being cheap and didn't change the lubrication on the jack that moves the elevator.
 
ERfly said:
"You're going to lose it all of a sudden. Push it up! Way up!"

"There it is."
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Amazingly this wouldn't be the last crew to knowingly fly into a thunderstorm during landing. American at LIT, Air France at YYZ, USAir at CLT and many more who were able to use windshear escape techniques to save their butts.

Definitely a good reminder to wait the 10 or 15 minutes it usually takes for a thunderstorm to move out of the way.
 
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