Originally Posted by
SASless
When confronted with difficult situations especially those involving Flight Control Malfunctions or any situation not trained for or even discussed during training.....the key to survival is never giving up and "flying" the aircraft using whatever resources you have available.
One such example....a Chinook decides upon its own to yaw left then roll inverted...and refusing to allow the Pilots to move the flight controls to combat the actions of the aircraft in a "normal" manner.
It and the crew survived.
The Crew's Accounts of the event......
http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/Fl...x_May_1998.pdf
SASless what an amazing story. Surely other than the failure itself everything went right for them. You have to wonder if the overspeed reduced the ROD to reasonable value. Perhaps if they were higher they would have had another roller coaster. Astounding they walked away.
Was it Bob Hoover quoted as saying “fly through the crash as far as possible” ? Or something close to that. That is one I like to remember too.