Skippers Aviation Cessna Conquest makes forced landing on highway
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And yes, well north of Sandfire- had the directions reversed, but only an uneducated ringer.
Roebuck Roadhouse is not in Broome.
And more likely to have "lovelies" than Roebuck Roadhose, out at the T-junction.
And yes, well north of Sandfire- had the directions reversed, but only an uneducated ringer.
Just having a dig about the ringer thing. Don't take it personally.
Hmmm from memory and being a long time since I had anything to do with a conquest, they had a jet pump setup yeah? If you didn’t have the boost pumps on there’d be a certain amount of unusable fuel in the tank.
Probably around an hour of endurance?
Smoking gun?
Probably around an hour of endurance?
Smoking gun?
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My point is that if this was as tight on fuel as has been suggested, and this was a fuel exhaustion event( thank you for the correction btw) , then it would have to be asked why didn’t the crew refuel? Is there something more at the organisational level that needs to be looked at, instead of simply blaming the PIC? Which I never do btw.
"If you pull the N1 Tach, will the autothrottle respond?"
The National Airlines 27... crew got curious so started pulling breakers to see what would happen. And ended up killing a passenger in the process.
It happens.
The National Airlines 27... crew got curious so started pulling breakers to see what would happen. And ended up killing a passenger in the process.
It happens.
My point is that if this was as tight on fuel as has been suggested, and this was a fuel exhaustion event( thank you for the correction btw) , then it would have to be asked why didn’t the crew refuel? Is there something more at the organisational level that needs to be looked at, instead of simply blaming the PIC? Which I never do btw.
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The National Airlines 27... crew got curious so started pulling breakers to see what would happen. And ended up killing a passenger in the process.
It was most likely a coincidence
In summary, the catastrophic failure of the No. 3 engine must have been precipitated by a blade tip rub condition which produced the blade exiting sequence. The two most prominent theories as to the initiating mechanism of the blade tip rub, as based on the evidence available, are:
(1) An acceleration of the engine to an abnormally high N1 speed, either by an unrestricted throttle advance by the autothrottle system or a manual throttle advance by the pilot, which created a resonant frequency and subsequent destructive vibratory mode.
(2) A piece of inner acoustic panel from the inlet duct separated from its honeycomb bonding and restricted airflow into the engine resulting in a very rapid fan acceleration and a destructive vibratory mode.
(1) An acceleration of the engine to an abnormally high N1 speed, either by an unrestricted throttle advance by the autothrottle system or a manual throttle advance by the pilot, which created a resonant frequency and subsequent destructive vibratory mode.
(2) A piece of inner acoustic panel from the inlet duct separated from its honeycomb bonding and restricted airflow into the engine resulting in a very rapid fan acceleration and a destructive vibratory mode.
