Another "Star" survives plane crash
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Another "Star" survives plane crash
The words heard on Big Breakfast news this morning were that actor Patrick Swayze landed solo and unscathed yesterday after his Cessna (no details) made an emergency landing after encountering engine trouble.
Is it just me or is a dead-stick landing in a single-engined Cessna no big deal?
The media dogs are hungry for aviation blood - seems we're determined to wipe out the showbiz profession chaps!!
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Is it just me or is a dead-stick landing in a single-engined Cessna no big deal?
The media dogs are hungry for aviation blood - seems we're determined to wipe out the showbiz profession chaps!!
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I'd just like to say... we're all counting on you.
I'd just like to say...
we're all counting on you.
I'd just like.............................
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I think that to the guy holding the dead stick it is right up there in the "pucker factor" area when it is the real thing and not just another bothersome drill conducted outside the simulator. A Cessna may not make quite as large a hole as the heavy iron but you end up just as dead. Engage brain then press the submit button.
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Well, if I'm floating around the Cambridgeshire skies in the RHS of my father's flying club Cessna and the donk conks out, I'll be sure to keep your message in mind as the terra threatens to become all too firma. "Don't worry, dad", I'll say. "It's no big deal."
I used to work for Amstrad. Alan Sugar used to keep a fist-sized lump of metal on his desk, and one day I asked him what it was. Turned out to be just one of the bits they extracted from the engine of his plane after it decided to explosively self-disassemble one day at a couple of thousand feet above Southend airport. That was some time ago, even then, but I suggest that anyone who tried to tell him that it wasn't that much of a problem would be swiftly disabused of the idea... You should try it. It'd be entertaining.
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I used to work for Amstrad. Alan Sugar used to keep a fist-sized lump of metal on his desk, and one day I asked him what it was. Turned out to be just one of the bits they extracted from the engine of his plane after it decided to explosively self-disassemble one day at a couple of thousand feet above Southend airport. That was some time ago, even then, but I suggest that anyone who tried to tell him that it wasn't that much of a problem would be swiftly disabused of the idea... You should try it. It'd be entertaining.
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Having experienced the deafening silence of a 'donk' conking out on a C182 I can attest to the 'pucker factor' being fairly near the top of the scale. Mind you, it helps if you're 4,000' over an airfield at the time but that just makes sure you do your most perfect circuit ever... on the numbers and with just enough excess height that you can comfortably sideslip it off.
Now off to the Non-Air Transport Forum with you!
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Now off to the Non-Air Transport Forum with you!
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Easy? Have YOU ever dead sticked a 1978 Cessna 414A? I doubt it, some how. I'm certainly glad I haven't had to. Microsoft network news says it was a "pressurisation" problem - but I find it difficult to think of a scenario fitting that description that would require landing on a road.
DOES ANYONE know what REALLY happened?
DOES ANYONE know what REALLY happened?
