Delta DC-9 off runway (in grass) at SAV

[Maurus]

In order to get a DC-9 series aircraft to stop, there is this whole "Rube Goldberg" series of things that need to occur.

If everything is set perfectly, plane touches down, hopefully the speedbrakes were armed so when you get main wheel spin up, they'll deploy... Which activates the auto brakes, if they're set. Then you can't deploy reversers until the nose is down because of the "cans" and if the thrust levers get tapped, all of the "magic" goes cattywumpus.

She's a great jet but its easy to run off the end of the runway when you're trying to do the "smooth" or "right" thing instead of respecting the fact that the airplane can be a fickle bitch if you're not respectful.

After flying the metro it sounds like my type of plane.

Main difference being that you will go off the side of the runway instead of the end in the metro.

 

[jtrain609]

What will happen to the crew? Fired? Retrained?

Probably depends on what happened and whether they were hot dogging the plane in. If they weren't, and did everything right, it's hard to fire somebody for doing their job properly and still having a sub-par result.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Delta was the launch customer in the US for the DC-9-10 in 1964/65 (?) and is the last carrier in the US to still operate the (straight) DC-9. MD-80,87,88,90 etc don't count.

Better picture

That looks curiously like a mid-20th-century Regional Jet to me.

 

[rframe]

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This was my ride to NJC12 out of CAK. Old school.

ZOMG - why does it need like all those clocks to fly!@#!#$ where's the computer? that looks dangerous!!!

 

[Pilotforhire587]

Such a beautiful airplane, even if she is a you know what.