Posted on 07/02/2021 11:47:15 AM PDT by ransomnote
A Boeing 737 cargo plane made an emergency landing in the ocean near Honolulu early Friday after pilots reported engine trouble, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Both pilots were rescued from a debris field, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The FAA said Transair Flight 810 made the emergency landing at around 1:30 a.m. local time on Friday.
“The pilots had reported engine trouble and were attempting to return to Honolulu when they were forced to land the aircraft in the water,” the FAA said. “The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate.”
The Boeing 737-200 plane was built in 1975 and powered by two Pratt & Whitney engines, according to the FAA. The aircraft was not a 737 Max, the jet that officials had grounded for 20 months through last November after two fatal crashes.
The plane took off from Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport bound for Kahului Airport on Maui, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Unless that plane had pontoons, it didn’t land. It crashed, or more accurately, it ditched.
Old, beat up ‘75 -200 probably with 80,000 hours on the airframe flying freight.
Bad engines is just the tip of the iceberg with an ancient beater like this. No sane pilot would take it out over the water...and least not without his rubber duckie
as we ustah say, “held together by safetywire and corrosion”
Sixth time today!
“Unless that plane had pontoons, it didn’t land. It crashed, or more accurately, it ditched.”
Common usage.
Water landings are hard. Is this the first time ever there has been an ocean landing where all aboard survived?
And a little paint
During WWII, Eddie Rickenbacker, the WWI flying ace was a passenger in a B-17 headed to a Pacific Island from Hawaii. The Navigator made a mistake and they missed the island and ditched at sea. All except one of the crew survived in a raft for three weeks.
Ha yes, alot of paint
A good landing is any landing you can swim away from.
Very lucky to survive as the engines would scoop up the water and the aircraft break apart.
They also could have ended up on a deserted island talking to a soccer ball....
Two engines—Fuel
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