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OH....to have a copy of the CVR tape......that would make for some interesting listening.....particularly after they got it stopped and the magnitude of what they had just done to their careers sunk in!
You could come up with some great captions for the third photo in this set
(the Air force person talking to the civvy scratching his head or on the phone !)
Now departed again! Follow the link in the first post to see an impressive short field PABTO take-off! I bet V1 came up really quickly and rotate seemed like an eternity!
There are some axminster-shuffles and interviews without coffee going on at McGuire.
OH....to have a copy of the CVR tape......that would make for some interesting listening.....particularly after they got it stopped and the magnitude of what they had just done to their careers sunk in!
They probably spent just enough time discussing it while parked on the runway with recorders running to overwrite the good stuff
I gotta give them credit though for the lessons learned and I bet they wont do it again if given the chance
A few decades ago, there were several occasions when inadvertent landings occurred at RAF Changi instead at Paya Lebar, the old civil airport in Singapore. Red faces not caused by tropic sun.
Surprised that no photos seen of the rubber on the runway...
I saw written somewhere in one of the articles that the C17 weighed some huge amount (400,000 lbs ?) yet the airport runway was only rated for a number way way less than this (20,000 lbs ?). Hopefully not the media getting the numbers wrong.
With such a huge difference, how come no damage was done to the runway ?
Reason for asking is I once saw what happens when a C130 sinks through the asphalt / tarmac on landing at an airstrip rated for Hercs but that had obviously not been checked in a while. Not sure what happened on take off as never went back as it was in the middle of no where (Woomera Rocket Range).
McDill is on the South East corner of a peninsular and Peter O Knight is on the south east corner of peninsular. The GPS says you are on the centre line so it is easy to make the mistake.
A C17 bringing a bomb disposal team landed at Henderson field in the Solomon Islands. The parked the nose against the end of the ramp and shut down.
"Can we have a tug to push the aircraft back, please?"
"What tug?"
Washington would not allow them to pushback using reverse thrust so they had to wait three days until another C17 brought a tug all the way from Hawaii.
Whilst it was there it was the largest man made structure in the Solomons.
