Saha Air 707 loses 2 on climb out

[411A]

Yeah... I remember in 1990 the diffrences manual was thicker than the AOM too

This was noticed in the seventies as well...and sometimes the differences section did not match the airplane it referred to...

I well remember one simulator session I had with a smarta** check pilot, when he mentioned that the cabin PA would work with all engines shutdown and all switches OFF, except the battery switch.
I told this turkey that only the later model airplanes might be wired this way, but it most definitely did not refer to some of the earlier models we had....so I bet him $100 that I was right...out to the ramp we went...and I promptly collected my $100.

[millerscourt]

411A Was that why you had to leave SIA by any chance?

[411A]

411A Was that why you had to leave SIA by any chance?

Thanks for your concern, millerscourt, however I didn't have to leave...I left to more than double the salary with no tax, elsewhere
The check pilot?
He was from Kenya, and proved his own undoing whilst trying to outwit a cab driver on Collier Quay at 2am one early morning over a S$4 fare....and ended up in hospital, quite battered for his trouble....no idea where he went after that.

[lomapaseo]

He was from Kenya, and proved his own undoing whilst trying to outwit a cab driver on Collier Quay at 2am one early morning over a S$4 fare....and ended up in hospital, quite battered for his trouble....no idea where he went after that.

I felt sorry for the poor chap (the check pilot) after you took him for a $100 and all his lunch money for a month

[bugg smasher]

No, it wasn't a KC-135, it was an E-3A, Yukla27, with 24 POB.

Thank you, ORAC, for the clarification. Pedantry notwithstanding, I believe the basic airframe and engine combination remain the same. I have some experience on the type in question, my initial judgment stands; they performed to a remarkable standard.

[411A]

I felt sorry for the poor chap (the check pilot) after you took him for a $100 and all his lunch money for a month

I certainly didn't feel 'sorry' for him, he proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was full of BS.
Quite frankly, I would have expected better from a check pilot.

Nearly every different model of the 'ole 707 was wired differently, according to the original customers specifications.
About the only thing they all had in common was the fitment of four engines...
Five if they had the required mod.

[millerscourt]

They certainly were wired differently. In KAC in late 70's we had 5 brand new 320-C's that had certain switches the British way so as not to confuse those Trident and Comet Pilots! Then we received 2 ex Pan Am wired the usual Boeing way.

PS We had the 5 engine mod in order to deliver engines to Lufthansa at Frankfurt for servicing.

[matkat]

Strange thing this as the same thing happened in early may also from Ahwaz, I know this for sure I was there and saw it happen again it was an engine fire/explosion which also took out the other engine on the same side and also some bits of flap.