Sunday, June 29, 2014

It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's A Problem.

Old NFO had a video posted yesterday of a USMC Harrier pilot earning his flight pay.

Here's a video of another crew earning their pay and demonstrating what happens when the right engine of a Boeing 757 meets a bird on takeoff.

The calm professionalism of the crew, the tower, and rescue and how they worked the problem is impressive indeed. This sang-froid was no doubt helped by having British accents.

Very nicely done gentlemen.

1 comment:

Old NFO said...

Yep, earned their flight pay too! Kinda interesting that approach gave them a turn into the dead engine. One GOOD thing, they were in a 757, so they kept at least some power on the right engine until they shut it down. An Airbus the computer would have shut the engine down immediately with no pilot control...