Alertwomen pilots save over 48 lives aboard
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NOw of course, if the women pilots had been really good, they would have noticed the missing nuts on the nose wheel on the walkaround. Then they would have written it up and had it fixed.
sheesh,
sheesh,
The wheel was eventually found off the end of the runway back at LGW. What we don't know was how many days it was missing before someone noticed .......
Why is the sex of the crew relevant to the outcome?
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This is a panty waste of a subject
Mechanical failure or poor preflight, who cares if it is crack or balls in the the seat when ATC reported the loss of a wheel. I feel like I am degrading myself by commenting on this...
As far as the fuel burn goes, it was the correct decision.
As far as the fuel burn goes, it was the correct decision.
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See Incident: India Regional AT42 at Silchar on Jun 10th 2012, dropped nose wheel on departure
Apparently tower saw an object fall from the plane on take off from Silchar...
Apparently tower saw an object fall from the plane on take off from Silchar...
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Media today is dominated by females always choosing such non newsworthy "events" to big note their gender. Here they failed because it was folk on the ground who spotted the missing wheel and possibly saved lives as for the pilots it was a fairly routine be careful or else landing. Any recognition for the gender of those folk with presence of mind who spotted it? Derhhhhh.
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Your memories must be bad. The Times of india, in it's ballyhoo lauded a young lady, with 9W, who saved the day in April of 2010 when she engaged the second autopilot while performing an autoland
in VOCI after the skipper took ill. She even said it was a non event, event and the skipper was concious and alert during the descent, arrival, and landing.
Well Pravda, err.. Times of India has to report the news as they fantacize... err as it actually happens
. The world according to Garp.
in VOCI after the skipper took ill. She even said it was a non event, event and the skipper was concious and alert during the descent, arrival, and landing. Well Pravda, err.. Times of India has to report the news as they fantacize... err as it actually happens
. The world according to Garp.
So in fact it was an alert ATC op (whose sex at this point is worryingly NOT reported) who was alert (or possibly alerted by someone at the departure airport who WAS alert - OMG - we DON'T know who was alert....). The crew simply did what they were supposed to as far as I can see (perhaps the most heroic thing they did was NOT slam the remaining nose-wheel on to the deck hard enough to blow the tire) - the fact they were female seems exceptionally irrelevant.
But wait a second could this not be a great way of reducing costs! Obviously the second wheel is not strictly essential....
But wait a second could this not be a great way of reducing costs! Obviously the second wheel is not strictly essential....
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Two of our female pilots took off from SJC and lost an engine of a 737. I ran into her later in the day to take her aircraft after they did another two flights back to SJC. She told me about their engine failure when I noticed her FO was also a woman. I said two women flying a jet airliner and losing an engine successfully returning for a safe landing? She said superior airmanship and cunting. She was one of the really fun ones.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please forgive me for being out of the loop of aircraft maintenance and technology for a long time but is it not possible to introduce a simple sensing device into the nose-wheel system, like checking its weight when airborne for example, so that a missing nose-wheel can be detected on the flight deck? I appreciate this would be yet another expense and yet another warning for the flight crew but it does seem to me that the loss of a nose-wheel is a not uncommon occurrence.
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It must have been a slow news day. Landing with one nose gear wheel missing is a non event. No nose gear might make the news because they couldn't taxi to the gate at taxi power.
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well to all those who are wondering why was the gender of the pilots highlighted, read this:Man refuses to fly with female pilot | News.com.au
the article talks about a male pax who refused to fly when he learned that the pilot was female. this is not an isolated article, but one quite recent that i could recollect. i guess media is trying to reassure indians that ladies can fly just as well as the male counterparts.
the article talks about a male pax who refused to fly when he learned that the pilot was female. this is not an isolated article, but one quite recent that i could recollect. i guess media is trying to reassure indians that ladies can fly just as well as the male counterparts.
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one of the 2 front wheels were missing? Does that mean they still had the other front wheel? if so, its a none event. IMO not even worth burning off extra fuel
i guess media is trying to reassure indians that ladies can fly just as well as the male counterparts.
How about they write a story "Two female pilots complete flight completely uneventfully - not one thing went wrong or fell-off. All safe!"