Two Engine B707 31st March 1992
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As per a previous PPrRuNe thread of this flight, years ago, a post was made that Martin hadn't stop talking about the story ever since, there were five personnel on board with Martin literally being the radio operator, Martin tells the story to anyone that will listen, he's had his five minutes of fame, the remainder of the crew were telling more truthful accounts and normally over a beer, I heard the account in an Irish bar in Ostend.
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From memory the stranded passengers on Panam flight 843 waited for a replacement fight. It duly arrived but either the nose gear collapsed or the tyres burst on landing within their sight. Some of the passengers decided that they had enough flying for the day and elected to get a coach home!
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Sadly Martin died in September last year. Don't know anything further but a little about him here:
https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=124435
https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=124435
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I met Martin, many years ago, when we shared a table at the greasy spoon staff cafe on the Southend north side. We were both hanging around, waiting for something, or someone, as you often do in our world, and he told me the whole story.
I thought it was an elaborate fairy story, at first, but then he showed me the photograph of the wing, sans engines!.
He told the story with a great deal of wit, and humour, often associated with events like these. Just two of the amusing details were,1, No one at Boeing had ever been pessimistic enough to calculate an appropriate threshold speed for a two engines out, no flaps, no slats, landing with a 30kt tailwind! And 2. As the aircraft finally came to a halt, after careering across the grass, he looked out of the window, and there was a sign saying 'DO NOT PASS THIS POINT'.
As is often said in other circumstances, you couldn't have made it up!
MJ
I thought it was an elaborate fairy story, at first, but then he showed me the photograph of the wing, sans engines!.
He told the story with a great deal of wit, and humour, often associated with events like these. Just two of the amusing details were,1, No one at Boeing had ever been pessimistic enough to calculate an appropriate threshold speed for a two engines out, no flaps, no slats, landing with a 30kt tailwind! And 2. As the aircraft finally came to a halt, after careering across the grass, he looked out of the window, and there was a sign saying 'DO NOT PASS THIS POINT'.
As is often said in other circumstances, you couldn't have made it up!
MJ
I have a feeling this story was covered by Air Crash Investigation on Discovery Channel last year.
Thy also did a programme on a KC135 misplacing two engines on a Desert Storm sortie. Huge credit to both crews for getting down in one piece.
Thy also did a programme on a KC135 misplacing two engines on a Desert Storm sortie. Huge credit to both crews for getting down in one piece.
S22 E04 "Double Trouble" Trans-Air Service Flight 671
Nat Geo episode
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