Atlas Air on fire

[STS-41B]

Atlas Air Boeing cargo plane suffers 'engine malfunction,' forced to make emergency landing in Miami | Fox News

An Atlas Air Boeing cargo plane was forced to make an emergency landing soon after it departed from Miami International Airport on Thursday night.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Skåning]

The Aviation Herald

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[knot4u]

Seems fine, shut off #1 and we'll just turn back and land. Do we need to dump fuel? Wide body pilot life sounds awesome.

 

[MikeD]

On the “similar threads” section below the last post of this thread, the first “similar thread” is “Sky Jobs: Atlas Air First Officer”.

 

[Roger Roger]

I don’t care if y’all are going to play the “OMG tHe MeDiA iS bEiNg OvErDrAmAtIc!!! The 74 can fly easily on 3 and the pylon is designed to protect for x minutes!” that footage is pretty impressive and I’d be glad that I couldn’t see all that from the cockpit.

 

[derg]

On the “similar threads” section below the last post of this thread, the first “similar thread” is “Sky Jobs: Atlas Air First Officer”.

“Alright, smartass. TARS! Bring down the humor 30%”

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Did they spray any school kids in Miami? No? That’s why they’re at Atlas and not Delta material. Oh sorry, Delta Mat Erial.

 

[derg]

Yet your app remains on file.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Yet your app remains on file.

I haven’t paid Plato Rhymes since 2019. I just assume the app goes in-active. It’s still on file? That’s news to me.


It’s ok - I’ll just wait for the merger.

 

[Minuteman]

Clarification: this is the bad kind of “on fire.”

 

[Roger Roger]

Clarification: this is the bad kind of “on fire.”

not lit

 

[roundout]

[expletive]’s on fire, yo

 

[knot4u]

Clarification: this is the bad kind of “on fire.”

I don't think so. An engine fire is a known possibility and the engineers built systems into the airplane that hopefully extinguish it or even let the flaming conflagration fall off and everyone still ends up on the ground in a controlled fashion, and that's what happened. In my dumb opinion a bad kind of "on fire" would be all four engines running and the fuselage is on fire, it's happened.

 

[MikeD]

I don't think so. An engine fire is a known possibility and the engineers built systems into the airplane that hopefully extinguish it or even let the flaming conflagration fall off and everyone still ends up on the ground in a controlled fashion, and that's what happened. In my dumb opinion a bad kind of "on fire" would be all four engines running and the fuselage is on fire, it's happened.

Or, an engine fire in the jet that is also a fuselage fire, like a fighter jet.

 

[Bob Ridpath]

I've done primary searches in house fires without benefit of a hoseline, fought car fires with entrapment; I can't think of a much-worse circumstance than fire on-board an airplane at altitude - no way out and no one to help. For me, at least, that's the stuff of nightmares.

 

[knot4u]

Or, an engine fire in the jet that is also a fuselage fire, like a fighter jet.

That's absolutely true. The engineers were also thinking about that. The difference is you signed up willing to lay your life down fighting for what you believe in. Lots of people might think that's odd. I hate everything about fighters, you can take your afterburners and ejection seats and fly by wire and toss it into a campfire. I like airplanes, my friends are more important.

 

[Lawman]

I've done primary searches in house fires without benefit of a hoseline, fought car fires with entrapment; I can't think of a much-worse circumstance than fire on-board an airplane at altitude - no way out and no one to help. For me, at least, that's the stuff of nightmares.

Fire aboard ship.

It’s like you did something to offend god and this is your penance.


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[BobDDuck]

Fire aboard ship.

It’s like you did something to offend god and this is your penance.


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That's what lifeboats are for.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

That's what lifeboats are for.

I remember when cruise ships used to do full-on muster drills. Get your life jacket, put it on, report to your muster station. Once everyone there, literally a scene that looked like the entire ship’s humanity was about to evac, then we were dismissed to have fun.


My last cruise?

You had to use the cruise app, take a picture of the QR code on your assigned muster station, and good to go.

I shudder to think of a real life evac emergemcy involving a large cruise ship. Good luck homeys. You gon need it.

 

[///AMG]

Every shipboard airwing officer during a man overboard drill "yeah its AMG, calling from the stateroom, I have Dick butter and Micro Penis here with me, we are here".....and then you go back to sleep as the rest of the ship churns at 0200 am