bristol188 said:
Hi All This is a bit off subject, but it is electronic. I watched an air crash show
on TV the one where the pilot shut down the wrong engine. I just could not believe that there would not be a malfunction light for each engine. Any comments, I realize it is probably old hat but well.
Thanks
hi rog,
If this crash happened in the UK Jan during the 1980/90's. the reason why the guys shut down the wrong engine is because
the alarm light wiring had been crossed over!.
If there had been a forward looking camera, mounted aft, they could have seen the problem engine.
In my R.A.F. days [1950's] I was always told 'any landing you walk away from is a good landing'.
I was flying as a 'passenger' with my neighbour, a Flight Engineer, doing training circuits and bumps at night,
with 4 other Lincoln bombers.
We had done a couple of circuits and on the third run, the pilot veered off as he had seen an unexpected light on the runway.
Ground control told him it was just a faulty light, so we landed, half down the runway we saw the back end of the previous plane looming up.
Crunch, we ploughed into the back of it.
Our inboard, stb prop went along his rear fuselage like bacon slicer, chopping every 18 inch's,
his tail rudder upright cut thru our stb wing.
Both planes were right off's, the odd light the pilot had seen was the tail light of the previous plane which had not cleared the runway.
If you have seen 'MythBusters' TV doing the same fuselage myth, it can happen, it confirmed!
If you like scary take offs/landing try Johannesburg in South Africa during one of their frequent thunderstorms.
I've done it many times and they are the worst Ive known, definitely white knuckle