How are you supposed to do that?
2006-07-01 17:48:01 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
It's been done thousands of times. No two situations are alike. Altitude,speed, angle of attack, damage, engine power, landing area, & pilot all play a role in survival. If you can manuver the plane, you can reach a airport or open water. If you have enough altitude & speed you can glide down. Survival depends on how hard you hit, if there is fire, and the structure of the plane. Luck helps too..........
2006-07-02 09:22:41 · answer #1 · answered by lana_sands 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sure is...its usually known as a forced landing or ditching.
A forced landing is most likely in a single-engine plane in the case of engine failure. When a plane is built, engineers figure out a "best glide speed" - which is basically the speed at which the plane will glide furtherest and most efficiently. So...if the engine fails, the pilot will set up the plane at best glide speed firstly. S/he'll then run through a series of checks to attempt to troubleshoot and restart the engine...then assuming no luck, will continue the glide. Selecting a landing site (such as a field or empty road), s/he'll then glide the aircraft to that point and touch down - sometimes heavily but often not for quite a reasonable landing.
More risk is actually in the landing surface than anything else - say, if the plane hits powerlines on the way in or a wheel goes into a rabbit burrow and flips it over.
But yes...very survivable generally if done properly!
Ditching is similar, same process except the landing is on water. If the pilot can, s/he'll usually retract the landing gear so the plane "belly lands" on the water smoothly and doesn't dig in...basically, they'll glide down and level off, let the plane settle onto the water...
So yes...it certainly is possible to crash land and survive...and that's basically how!
I've never been in a ditching...but I have been in a forced landing - had an engine failure and touched down onto a farm road.
2006-07-01 18:26:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once heard a very old pilot friend at the airport many years ago say that "every landing was a crash landing, but the only good ones were if the plane and pilot could both go fly again!"
On a more serious note, pilots are trained to handle the most dire and dangerous scenarios ever known to even have a remote chance of happening to their aircraft. The pilots are able to make the most of any situation, and as long as everything works out, everyone is able to walk away from the emergency.
2006-07-02 11:13:58 · answer #3 · answered by ProFlyer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is quite possible to survive if you do it right! However, it takes skill to land the aircraft in an emergency situation. Obviously, there is something wrong with the aircraft during a crash landing.
As for how you do it, it generally involves slowing the airplane to landing speed with the flaps or dive brakes (most planes do not have dive brakes) and then easing the aircraft to the ground.
2006-07-02 00:47:36 · answer #4 · answered by Bunaby A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is possiblle,actually it really happend.... It may depend also on the terrain that you will land, the speed and the impact. Lucky for me it did not happend on Grand Cannon. Crash landing is an emergency procudure that a pilot will resort into if he has no other choice to keep the aircraft airborne.
I have walk out from the aircraft with minor injuries.
2006-07-01 21:34:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having made one less good landing than I did take offs in ten years with the Air Force,,, well lets just say that was a "controlled crash". And some one there was kinda right, that's what I did. I stuck an F86d in the watter (Korea) and the Navy had to come get me.
2006-07-01 18:54:47 · answer #6 · answered by Dusty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You survive by making a gentle enough landing to not get hurt.
Planes crash all the time and people live.
2006-07-02 10:01:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
More often than not, some or all of the passengers survive when a small plane crashes.
2006-07-01 22:54:29 · answer #8 · answered by Flyboy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes all crash land means is that its not a planned landing do to sometype of failure so you could crash land into an wide open field and the plane would be fine so u'd be ok too
2006-07-01 17:51:52 · answer #9 · answered by staterules9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we all have abilities which remain hidden until they are needed. There are many stories of courage and survival by people in the most extreme circumstances. I believe these qualities only come to light under exceptional circumstances and for the majority of us we are fortunate to go through life without ever having to deal with such events and so never know what we are capable of overcoming.
2016-03-27 00:47:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋