Hey guys, i just wanna ask you guys if you have ever faced one, but i really hoped you haven't, but i still wanna know, if you have been in an aircraft accident, how did the airplane crash?
2007-10-09 23:39:08 · 16 answers · asked by Billy A 4 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
I do watch air crash investigation, and that's my fav show.....
and anyways, thx guys for all your answers. i'll give thumbs up for all....
2007-10-10 22:12:40 · update #1
When in the Army we had a hot engine and the helicopter had to land under autogyration, no engine. It was a pretty hard landing, and we all got grounded for physical examination.
Also at 30,000 ft a C-141 engine caught fire, there were 5 of us on board and the aircraft was loaded will trucks and blazers. We had to make an emergency landing, the aircraft came down so fast, it made our ears pop and the landing was so hard and short it jarred everything. When we got stopped, they were jerking us off the aircraft, and there were fire trucks everywhere.
My dad died once, His tools, and his name was on the manifest of an Airforce airplane. It crashed near Guam. He wasn't on it, he had to take the next one because there wasn't enough room on the one that crashed. There were no survivors, and they sent telegraphs to my mom saying my dad died in the crash. My dad didn't even know it, until he walked into a bar, and his boss almost passed out, he thought he saw a ghost.
2007-10-10 01:50:23 · answer #1 · answered by smittybo20 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have not. I am a pilot and fly everyday. In my career as a pilot I have only seen one accident. My beloved flight instructor died in a small aircraft at PTK. The only reason he crash was because he was to slow to low to the ground and did not have time to recover from a stalled attitude. Aviation is very very safe. Thousands of aircraft leave my place of work on a daily basis, and all of them have come back since I have been here.
2007-10-10 00:17:48 · answer #2 · answered by pilotjeannie89 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you know why you can't find anybody that has?
We are too darn good at what we do. The ones that are not keep flying to the scene of the accident, and unfortunately are not here to tell the tale.
Just for the record the only thing I can tell you is I had a nose tire blow on landing, and a near miss collision with a Cessna.
2007-10-10 04:20:47 · answer #3 · answered by 747pilot 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In nearly forty years and over sixteen thousand hours of flying I've yet to have even scratched the paint. Do have a Broken Wing award from the army though. I wasn't the one to scratch the olive drab paint but in Vietnam we took a around through the cowling which then severed a line resulting in loss of all hydraulic fluid. A Huey flies about like loosing your power steering pump in your car when that happens but we got her back to Bien Hua with no further damage.
2007-10-10 02:17:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have had three real events and one created one.
On a training mission in a CH47 Chinook Helicopter ferrying a sling loaded howitzer gun unit from one Training site to another we had a hydraulic failure to the rear flight control system. We had to drop the gun and land in a matter of seconds before we lost total pressure and control. It was moment of terror and ended up being stranded in the boonies for four hours waiting for alternate transportation.
Second event was in a OH58D Kiowa and we lost a bearing in the tail rotor shaft and had to land in the Paso Robles County Fair Grounds. We got to meet a lot of people that day.
Third incident was in transit to Saudi Arabia in 1991 and the Tower air 747 lost an engine 500 miles out and we turned back. at 150 miles we lost a second engine and made an emergency landing at Kennedy straight in with no turns. We ended up having to spend 12 hours in the terminal awaiting another airplane.
The fabricated incident was in a OH58 flying from Fort Irwin to Fort Ord CA. The pilot was on his last flight before retiring from the Army. He declared an in flight emergency and landed near a fast food restaurant in Bakersfield and had me go in and get his take out order. We then continued our flight.
2007-10-10 08:31:27 · answer #5 · answered by yes_its_me 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, can't say that I have. Hopfully I never well, I mean I went through a lot of testing and training to get to where I wanna be ever since I was a young boy...
Captain, Chris W T
ATP- B747- A318 - A380
CFI
2007-10-10 00:24:05 · answer #6 · answered by CaptainChris 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes totaled out a pa28 piper warrior on take off .we landed on hwy to pick up medical people .We took off but a pickup truck pulled up to close to the hwy. we struck it with our left wing The pilot of the aircraft put the plane down .No one was hurt, but the plane was totaled
2007-10-10 11:59:15 · answer #7 · answered by gggggg 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yea it was this once i was flying back home and the planes front wheel burst on landing , i had a glass peice lodged in my arm and i guess i still have the scar to remind me , oh well even after all that i still wanna be a pilot and fly those massive machienes myself.
2007-10-10 02:16:43 · answer #8 · answered by darshsz 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope
2016-05-20 22:26:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasnt exactly a crash but I have been in a Jumbo jet which landed weirdly.
2007-10-10 01:55:24 · answer #10 · answered by Nitin T F1 fan 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋