Help needed in finding details of DC8 freighter incident
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The crew
Captain Berglund, F/O Martin Emery and Flight Engineer Terry Boone.
All these crew freelanced with us and I had the pleasure of a very liquid night in Marseilles when the whole incident was talked through by the Captain and Terry ( who could not stop laughing ..... perhaps nervously!) but most of the jokes were at Martin's expense, he had tears rolling down his cheeks as he described Matin taking pictures while adopting Berglund's full rudder full left aileron pose at the controls -
It later transpired that the aircraft had suffered a very, very heavy landing on a ferry flight from Manston to Southend at the hands of Capt J*e R*y that was neither reported nor checked.
The aircraft flew from Southend to Luxembourg and then loaded for Kano, the engines fell off at the first onset of turbulence.
The touchdown was at over 200 knots and despite possibly the longest runway in France they did go "off the end" - hardly surprising with that amount of momentum, but a brilliant feat of flying.
I cannot remember Captain Berglunds's first name (Ingmar?) but he attributed his survival to his basic flying training with the Swedish Airforce as a fighter pilot.
A very modest gent, he continued to fly for us for some time.
All these crew freelanced with us and I had the pleasure of a very liquid night in Marseilles when the whole incident was talked through by the Captain and Terry ( who could not stop laughing ..... perhaps nervously!) but most of the jokes were at Martin's expense, he had tears rolling down his cheeks as he described Matin taking pictures while adopting Berglund's full rudder full left aileron pose at the controls -
It later transpired that the aircraft had suffered a very, very heavy landing on a ferry flight from Manston to Southend at the hands of Capt J*e R*y that was neither reported nor checked.
The aircraft flew from Southend to Luxembourg and then loaded for Kano, the engines fell off at the first onset of turbulence.
The touchdown was at over 200 knots and despite possibly the longest runway in France they did go "off the end" - hardly surprising with that amount of momentum, but a brilliant feat of flying.
I cannot remember Captain Berglunds's first name (Ingmar?) but he attributed his survival to his basic flying training with the Swedish Airforce as a fighter pilot.
A very modest gent, he continued to fly for us for some time.
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I knew Emery as a F/O back in the late 70's, early 80's. On the night when the clock were to go back would you believe he telephoned us during the night to ask if it was 2 or 3am yet so that he could put his clocks back and go to bed.
Yes, on the B707 incident, as I heard the story pretty much all they could get out of Emery was "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday" whilst the Captain would be hitting him around the head with a rolled up newspaper uttering something to the effect "They know we've got a f&+#ing problem, now try doing something useful" ... The rest of the crew exited the aircraft via the fwd door, Emery was out of that DV window and down the rope so fast he burned his hands on the rope
Yes, on the B707 incident, as I heard the story pretty much all they could get out of Emery was "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday" whilst the Captain would be hitting him around the head with a rolled up newspaper uttering something to the effect "They know we've got a f&+#ing problem, now try doing something useful" ... The rest of the crew exited the aircraft via the fwd door, Emery was out of that DV window and down the rope so fast he burned his hands on the rope
