Could well be apocryphal, but the crash axe supposedly became useful in allowing an enthusiastic do-it-yourself flight deck crew to extricate themselves from a self-generated problem. 'Twould appear that these chaps decided to remove the Wx radar from the centre console to effect some in-flight repairs but said radar box got jammed halfway out. No amount of fiddling would move it one way or the other and it's position made throttle movement impossible. Soooooo.... last resort - the fire axe and reduce said Wx radar to a kit of parts !!!!
Nah... tell me it can't be true??
