Lee Logan
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:13 am Post subject: AeroElectric-List Digest: 28 Msgs - 12/26/06 |
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Looks like I got that one wrong, if the "official" version of the B1 incident is accurate. I heard it differently, but the general sequence of events in incidents like that seems to have held up. In my experience, crews are sometimes complacent but most often (nearly always) there is some underlying distraction that causes a pilot or crew to forget to put the gear down.
You get the fire out, the engine shut down, and the smoke out of the cockpit, but in your haste to save the airplane and yourself/crew by getting on the ground as fast as practicable, you forget the gear. I'm betting there is more to the story than the "executive summary" that we saw. I'd really like to know why the pilot turned over control to the co-pilot right at the last moment. Was it a "test" or something, something wrong with the pilot? Interesting situation.
"External evidence" can be very misleading in aircraft accidents. I once managed to survive a near ground impact during a hard turn at a very low altitude when my "g" suit blew up (uncommanded, runaway air pressure). Anyone who's had that happen knows the pressure and extreme pain it causes. Had we hit the ground, no one would have ever known what I was struggling with at the time. The investigators would have necessarily concluded I was just hot dogging and killed myself and my back seater. I'm willing to bet 50 cents there is more to this story, even if it's nothing more than something interpersonal, disrespect, or a cockpit argument.
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