Comments on: this is the craziest video I have ever seen http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2007/09/this-is-the-craziest-video-i-have-ever-seen/ I love you. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:08:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: AJWM http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2007/09/this-is-the-craziest-video-i-have-ever-seen/comment-page-1/#comment-40520 AJWM Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:24:14 +0000 http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=303#comment-40520 One other thing -- the pilot's where the buck stops, but why did air traffic control clear him to Bader (AIY) when (a) he'd mentioned he was headed to ACY (Atlantic City International), and (b) they knew his aircraft type and knew (or should have known) that AIY was closed to jet traffic? Looks like ATC may have added to his confusion, especially given it was an IFR flight plan, but there's nothing in the report about him questioning that (which he should have done). This has in common something with many other accident reports I've read: it wasn't just one thing that went wrong, but a bunch of things. One other thing — the pilot’s where the buck stops, but why did air traffic control clear him to Bader (AIY) when (a) he’d mentioned he was headed to ACY (Atlantic City International), and (b) they knew his aircraft type and knew (or should have known) that AIY was closed to jet traffic?

Looks like ATC may have added to his confusion, especially given it was an IFR flight plan, but there’s nothing in the report about him questioning that (which he should have done).

This has in common something with many other accident reports I’ve read: it wasn’t just one thing that went wrong, but a bunch of things.

]]> By: AJWM http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2007/09/this-is-the-craziest-video-i-have-ever-seen/comment-page-1/#comment-40517 AJWM Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:13:07 +0000 http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=303#comment-40517 That's salt water the plane is in (per the accident report) so it must have shorted out something that triggered the engine start. The amazing thing is that the angles are just such that the engine doesn't suck in a bunch of water and drown itself. You really have to wonder what (if anything) the pilot was thinking: a downwind, long landing at an airport closed to jets. Okay, maybe his native language wasn't English and he didn't get the "closed to jet traffic" note on his airport diagram, and I've been a little confused flying into a new airport once myself, but how did he miss the windsock? That’s salt water the plane is in (per the accident report) so it must have shorted out something that triggered the engine start. The amazing thing is that the angles are just such that the engine doesn’t suck in a bunch of water and drown itself.

You really have to wonder what (if anything) the pilot was thinking: a downwind, long landing at an airport closed to jets. Okay, maybe his native language wasn’t English and he didn’t get the “closed to jet traffic” note on his airport diagram, and I’ve been a little confused flying into a new airport once myself, but how did he miss the windsock?

]]> By: blizzard http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2007/09/this-is-the-craziest-video-i-have-ever-seen/comment-page-1/#comment-40399 blizzard Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:02:43 +0000 http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=303#comment-40399 Yeah, I'm pretty sure those engines were shut down. You can hear it go through the automatic start. That initial spinning is just from the starter and trying to get the turbine going fast enough to ignite. The engine doesn't actually start until you see the flame + smoke come out the back. Yeah, I’m pretty sure those engines were shut down. You can hear it go through the automatic start. That initial spinning is just from the starter and trying to get the turbine going fast enough to ignite. The engine doesn’t actually start until you see the flame + smoke come out the back.

]]> By: Frank Ch. Eigler http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2007/09/this-is-the-craziest-video-i-have-ever-seen/comment-page-1/#comment-40371 Frank Ch. Eigler Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:46:30 +0000 http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=303#comment-40371 gdk: btw, the engine appears to have started *by itself* after the crash - the pilot dude was not quite crazy enough to try driving the bird out of the water. gdk: btw, the engine appears to have started *by itself* after the crash – the pilot dude was not quite crazy enough to try driving the bird out of the water.

]]> By: knipknap http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2007/09/this-is-the-craziest-video-i-have-ever-seen/comment-page-1/#comment-39635 knipknap Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:29:27 +0000 http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=303#comment-39635 Yeah, oldie but goodie. That guy really should not be allowed near a plane, or any other vehicle, in his lifetime. Personally, I believe there is no way this guy had a legally obtained license. He just did about everything possible thing wrong. Yeah, oldie but goodie. That guy really should not be allowed near a plane, or any other vehicle, in his lifetime. Personally, I believe there is no way this guy had a legally obtained license. He just did about everything possible thing wrong.

]]> By: Greg DeK http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2007/09/this-is-the-craziest-video-i-have-ever-seen/comment-page-1/#comment-39633 Greg DeK Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:21:22 +0000 http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=303#comment-39633 That guy is one crazy sumbitch. That guy is one crazy sumbitch.

]]> By: Frank Ch. Eigler http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2007/09/this-is-the-craziest-video-i-have-ever-seen/comment-page-1/#comment-39627 Frank Ch. Eigler Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:28:43 +0000 http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=303#comment-39627 At 8:40 remaining, the keen eye will notice a female passenger disembarking -- having suffered explosive declothification. At 8:40 remaining, the keen eye will notice a female passenger disembarking — having suffered explosive declothification.

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