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To: Hulka

Around 20 years ago, a plane had an engine fall apart like that...and it damaged hydraulic lines that caused the pilot to lose control. One good reason to land.

I’ve been in an airplane that had an engine catch fire, and they landed it right away in some remote airport - took around 8 hours to get bused back to Atlanta and try again.


13 posted on 08/27/2016 2:50:37 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: lacrew

In my time riding commercials airlines I’ve had engines fail on take-off and in-flight. No big deal.

Now, when flying F-15Es, had loss of engine due to a bird-strike that hit at about 540kts flying low level (500’). Yikes.

Flying A-10s I’ve lost an engine due to loss of oil pressure. . .seized up while on final while configured for a practice engine-out (single engine) approach.

Knew an A-10 pilot that lost an engine due to a tree strike. . .yes, he hit a tree and the jet kept flying but with one less engine.

They were flying out of Baltimore and were on the busy local ATC freq when he hit a tree. . .he made a radio call: “Hey Lead, I’ve just hit a tree and lost an engine”

The normally chatty local ATC went totally silent when he made that call.


24 posted on 08/27/2016 3:03:50 PM PDT by Hulka
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