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TooL8
15th May 2007, 17:06
See the cracked windshield on the 767 on Airliner.net?
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=1208567
Is it dangerous to sit behind this!? Does the FO move, put on a smoke hood ... just in case!?
RossEA
15th May 2007, 17:17
I would be tempted to poke it with a stick
gofer
15th May 2007, 17:22
It is weaker than it was before - but only the outside layer has cracked - and you have how many layers ?? I seem to remember 3 was the minimum - somebody help me out here pls.
Ross behave ! That is worse than playing with matches in the cockpit.
Where would the F/O move to - the captains lap ? :)
The hood would prevent visibility & won't really help if it breaks - as the wind will be HOW FAST ? Get real.
From where they are - land it 1st and then declare the craft u/s until repaired 2nd, and 3rdly move to the bar.:=
JW411
15th May 2007, 18:06
Believe me, it is no big deal. I have had three go in my flying career. It looks worse than it actually is. The remaining layers are still incredibly strong. Mind you, they usually go with a hell of a "crack" so it certainly gets your attention.
The only person that I know of who has nearly exited a windscreen was the captain of a BA BAC 1-11 and that had nothing to do with the windscreen cracking. The whole windscreen went because the engineers had changed the windscreen and had fixed it in with new bolts that were too short.
Piltdown Man
15th May 2007, 22:05
Gosh, we have to slow up to 300 Kts and.... (that's it)
Well, if this happened in a TriStar, the procedure is...nothing.
Press on, no speed nor altitude restriction.
#1 SYNERGY
16th May 2007, 02:33
Happened 3 times to me before on an A310, some A/C has 3 ply windshields and some has only 2 ply ones. MEL stated 2 part numbers, one is ok for 1 sector and the other which was our case ofcourse was a 10 sector cracked winshield OK as long as cracked ply is the external one and visibility is fine on affected side to complete an approach followed by a visual landing (specialy in case of pilot incapicitation on good side) judged by captain ofcourse not maintenance. Believe it or not AOG spare winshield took 4 days to arrive, aircraft flew it's 10 sectors with absolutely no problems or further extensions of cracks till the spare made it!!