Cobra360 Posted June 13, 2006 Posted June 13, 2006 The flight is due to land in Mami Int airport at 18:10 GMT. It has lost all hydraulics. Good luck to all the passangers and crew. Please excuse the typos.
Shaman Posted June 13, 2006 Posted June 13, 2006 Sounds very bad. From all crash investigations I've seen on National Geographics, when airliners lost all their hydraulics - it always was a very hard crash landing :/ 51PVO Founding member (DEC2007-) 100KIAP Founding member (DEC2018-) :: Shaman aka [100☭] Shamansky tail# 44 or 444 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] 100KIAP Regiment Early Warning & Control officer
Cobra360 Posted June 13, 2006 Author Posted June 13, 2006 Whats this? is it in real time? Yes, real time. I'm watching live coverage on Sky News. Landing due in 20 mins.
Shaman Posted June 13, 2006 Posted June 13, 2006 Are they controling the plane using engine throttles only? 51PVO Founding member (DEC2007-) 100KIAP Founding member (DEC2018-) :: Shaman aka [100☭] Shamansky tail# 44 or 444 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] 100KIAP Regiment Early Warning & Control officer
Cobra360 Posted June 13, 2006 Author Posted June 13, 2006 Must be, they're just burning off fuel right now.
S77th-konkussion Posted June 13, 2006 Posted June 13, 2006 Prayers to all on board. [sIGPIC]http://forums.eagle.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=43337&d=1287169113[/sIGPIC]
tflash Posted June 13, 2006 Posted June 13, 2006 Yes, prayers from here to ... hope they make it! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Cobra360 Posted June 13, 2006 Author Posted June 13, 2006 Still no word on what is happening or has happened yet.
Pilotasso Posted June 13, 2006 Posted June 13, 2006 probably the plane is setting an optimized aproach for the kind of manueverability limitations they have. They will be late on the schedule for sure. .
peterj Posted June 13, 2006 Posted June 13, 2006 There have been a couple of successful landings without hydraulics, ie DHL Airbus A300 in Baghdad 2003. Also systems for automatic throttle control has not been implented because the risk for complete hydraulics failure has been considered to low. edit, It went well, they did not think it was a complete hydraulics failure. http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/2822680/
NEODARK Posted June 13, 2006 Posted June 13, 2006 EDIT, nevermind.. I just saw everything went ok. :D
Pilotasso Posted June 13, 2006 Posted June 13, 2006 yeah, what happened, I never seen it on the news. .
Cobra360 Posted June 13, 2006 Author Posted June 13, 2006 I expected it turned out Ok after they stopped coverage on the story. The only news worth reporting is bad news apperently. Thats the media for you.
Shaman Posted June 13, 2006 Posted June 13, 2006 I expected it turned out Ok after they stopped coverage on the story. The only news worth reporting is bad news apperently. Thats the media for you. Yeah.. so true I'm glad everything turned out fine and everyone is safe! Another successfull extraordinary landing 51PVO Founding member (DEC2007-) 100KIAP Founding member (DEC2018-) :: Shaman aka [100☭] Shamansky tail# 44 or 444 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] 100KIAP Regiment Early Warning & Control officer
Pilotasso Posted June 13, 2006 Posted June 13, 2006 Yeah was thinking the same thing. I hoped to see a happy ending sometime. .
Andrew_McP Posted June 14, 2006 Posted June 14, 2006 The only news worth reporting is bad news apperently. Thats the media for you. It has little to do with the media and much to do with human nature. Bad news sells newspapers, always has, always will, and there are sound reasons why our fascination for bad news might be genetically hardwired. It's part of a survival strategy; we pay close attention to bad things that happen in case they help us survive ourselves in the future. Of course modern mass media, like so much of the modern world (food, consumerism, etc.) is probably far too good at appealing to our baser instincts. However we don't *have* to consume the bad news/large fries/latest gadget... we just usually choose to. Anyway, glad the aircraft made it down ok. Andrew McP
hitman Posted June 14, 2006 Posted June 14, 2006 It has little to do with the media and much to do with human nature. Bad news sells newspapers, always has, always will, and there are sound reasons why our fascination for bad news might be genetically hardwired. It's part of a survival strategy; we pay close attention to bad things that happen in case they help us survive ourselves in the future. Of course modern mass media, like so much of the modern world (food, consumerism, etc.) is probably far too good at appealing to our baser instincts. However we don't *have* to consume the bad news/large fries/latest gadget... we just usually choose to. I wonder if they will start telling the good news if Dunkin' Donut's sponsors the Page 1 article.
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