Hey, Guys
I don't think it's supposed to bend that way.I think it's amazing that someone pranged a Galaxy with 17 people aboard--and there were no fatalities! Those folks at Lockheed are something else!
Or maybe the Hand of God was in there.
Or the Flying Spaghetti Monster was in formation.
posted by Cowboy Blob @ 4:25 PM
7 Comments:
At 6:42 PM,
Anonymous said…
Cradled by His noodly appendage(s)!
At 9:38 AM,
shooter said…
Right now, I bet the pilot and co-pilot are the drunkest MFs in town. Good on 'em for getting it down okay.
At 11:10 AM,
azlibertarian said…
Shooter,
I bet not. I'm glad everyone got out OK too, but I bet the pilots are repeating over and over, both in their heads as well in official statements, just what happened when.
I don't know hardly anything about the C5, but my first impression is either a multiple engine failure or a load shift or incorrect CG. They simply may not have had enough thrust to fly or the aircraft could have been so far out of balance that it was doomed before it taxiied. [Large caveat here...there will be tons (no pun intended) of evidence to pour through before they can pinpoint the cause of this accident. First impressions (mine included) can often be completely wrong.]
At 12:28 PM,
NotClauswitz said…
It looks like they jackknifed it! Lucky the cargo that came forward didn't crush the guys in the cockpit.
At 2:08 PM,
azlibertarian said…
Dunno if anyone will get back to reading this (or even enough about blogging or Blogger to know if such a thing is possible here), but I recently came across a new tidbit about this accident...
A little birdee is telling me that the board will find that the reverser on the #2 engine (inboard engine on the left wing) came unlocked. For all you non-pilot types--trying to fly with three engines providing forward thrust, and one trying to provide rearward thrust is bad juju...very bad juju.
Also, the crew may have screwed up. The C5 has recently installed a new "glass cockpit"--which, in simple terms, is a new set of computerized instrumentation--which only one pilot was up to speed on. It turns out that he was the guy flying when all this was going on. Apparantly, while this guy had his head down trying to get to computer to recognize their engine-out state, they let the plane get slow. Planes don't fly well when they run out of airspeed.
At 7:51 PM,
Kevin said…
Rule of Flying #1:
The number of landings WILL equal the number of takeoffs.
Rule of Flying #2:
There is no guarantee of survival in Rule #1
Rule of Flying #3:
Maintain thy airspeed lest the ground reach up and smite thee.
At 9:36 AM,
Porta's Cat said…
The 3 rules of flying above remind me of the "hopeful rule" of parachuting:
"If neither your main or reserve chute open, you still have 20 seconds to learn to fly!"
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