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Old 7th Nov 2010, 12:14
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Short of 'training' by popping a large paper bag behind PF in the sim
Actually that is not so far fetched as it sounds. In the 737 sim I was in, the captain was PF and had just rotated. The tipping movement of the simulator caused a defective catch to fail on one of the servicing panels at the rear wall of the simulator. The servicing panel fell on to the simulator metal floor with a loud crash and with that the captain pulled back both throttles and tried to land straight ahead. He made it, too.

At the subsequent Court of Inquiry (aka the de-briefing) he said he thought the loud crashing noise was a simultaneous severe damage loss of both engines and that in his professional opinion the 737 doesn't fly too well with no engines so he put it back down real quick and survived to tell the tale.
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