Nationwide loses a donkey @ FACT
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Apparently the bucket deployed on T/O and shortly after airborne the engine came off the wing and crashed into the runway. Eyewitnesses say it looked like a bomb... Aircraft got away ok and are circling to burn off gas and plan the landing....
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Cape Town - Eyewitnesses say an engine has fallen off a plane that has taken off from Cape Town International airport.
ACSA Spokesperson Deidre Hendricks said the runway was closed for about ten minutes at 16:00 "due to debris on the runway from a departing aircraft".
Hendricks confirmed the plane affected was a Nationwide airlines fligh on route to Johannesburg. It was due to land at 17:30.
ACSA says the pilot performed an emergency landing at Cape Town International airport and there have been no reports of any injuries.
Earlier, the airport runway had been closed to clear debris - and what is believed to be an engine from the plane - from the runway.
It is expected that the incident will cause delays at OR Tambo Airport as well.
According to a caller on Capetalk Radio who was in a plane that landed shortly after the affected plane took off, an engine could be seen lying on the runway at Cape Town International.
"They took off and left the engine behind," he said. "It was an engine lying on the ground."
Another eyewitness has reported seeing a Nationwide plane flying overhead with smoke coming out of the right side of the plane.
Traffic is also backing up in the Cape Town International airport area due to the incident. - News24 and Sapa.
ACSA Spokesperson Deidre Hendricks said the runway was closed for about ten minutes at 16:00 "due to debris on the runway from a departing aircraft".
Hendricks confirmed the plane affected was a Nationwide airlines fligh on route to Johannesburg. It was due to land at 17:30.
ACSA says the pilot performed an emergency landing at Cape Town International airport and there have been no reports of any injuries.
Earlier, the airport runway had been closed to clear debris - and what is believed to be an engine from the plane - from the runway.
It is expected that the incident will cause delays at OR Tambo Airport as well.
According to a caller on Capetalk Radio who was in a plane that landed shortly after the affected plane took off, an engine could be seen lying on the runway at Cape Town International.
"They took off and left the engine behind," he said. "It was an engine lying on the ground."
Another eyewitness has reported seeing a Nationwide plane flying overhead with smoke coming out of the right side of the plane.
Traffic is also backing up in the Cape Town International airport area due to the incident. - News24 and Sapa.
Great Job!!
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There are other ways to test the other engine's ability to climb out alone ... 
That must have been a VERY uncomfortable 'tug' on the yoke and highly fortunate that the breakaway bolts sheared as required. The stress on the rest of the airframe must also be significant? Although, I suppose, that depends on how long the reverser was open - before the pod departed.
That must have been a VERY uncomfortable 'tug' on the yoke and highly fortunate that the breakaway bolts sheared as required. The stress on the rest of the airframe must also be significant? Although, I suppose, that depends on how long the reverser was open - before the pod departed.
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This is kind of the story of Nationwide at the moment:
"Saved by it's crew!"
Well done to TA and DP, big downer to Nationwide management, the cause of so many problems, and still the lowest payers in the industry, despite the heroic efforts of it's crew on a daily basis.
"Saved by it's crew!"
Well done to TA and DP, big downer to Nationwide management, the cause of so many problems, and still the lowest payers in the industry, despite the heroic efforts of it's crew on a daily basis.
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The whole engine was gone and the pilot brought it in and landed it perfectly. Realy something amazing I must say there was no engine at all its lying in thfield in the middle of the runway
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Trevor Arnold and Dan Perry deserve the highest praise for their outstanding airmanship. Without Marilyn Rink as the In Charge Flight Attendant the outcome may also have been different.
ACSA's concern was the debris on the runway and not passenger safety.
I have flown many times with Dan Perry. He is an outstanding young pilot and no doubt he will go far. Trevor Arnold a Stellenbosch Flying Club stalwart ... always a team job.
Well done to all of you.
ACSA's concern was the debris on the runway and not passenger safety.
I have flown many times with Dan Perry. He is an outstanding young pilot and no doubt he will go far. Trevor Arnold a Stellenbosch Flying Club stalwart ... always a team job.
Well done to all of you.
Last edited by Cirrus SR22; 27th Nov 2007 at 20:13.
. A+, GUYS. Excellent job. Wx in Cape Town was real kak today.
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Trevor Arnold, good guy, did my Metroliner convex at Airlink in the early 90's....he has had his fair share of frights and this is the worst...well handled I must add.
