Sort of. Firefighting aircraft do some wild-ass shit. It's a dangerous job to begin with, but they take on unnecessary risks sometimes, maybe a lot of times, to try and stop and advancing fire. Some of the companies that run those operations are not very good either.
Definitely clipped the trees. Wing looked fine, but that's the RH pontoon that got knocked off. Clipping the trees was definitely what fucked up their flight though.
Small plane crashes on a Malaysian highway, killing all 8 people on board and 2 on the ground https://apnews.com/article/malaysia...n=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter
Man, Horizon has got some serious personnel issues. First they had a ramper steal a plane and joy ride for an hour before crashing it. Now a jump seat pilot tries to pull the fire handles and crash the plane? Wtf?
Idk how the pilots actually stopped him. From where he was sitting in that cockpit jumpseat it is incredibly easy to pull those handles. Like, he's the closest to them. I'd think he'd have them pulled before the pilots could even react. Must have been acting sketchy or something and had the pilots keeping an eye out for some shit
what an insane story. i think i read that he was deadheading to SFO to then pilot somewhere. you'd think he'd just wait to be the pilot before trying to crash a plane with people on it.
The FAA needs to review their mental health policies and really bring them into the 2020s. It's insane that, as a pilot, you cannot seek mental healthcare out of fear of losing your livelihood
They're hurting for pilots pretty bad already I doubt they do anything to shrink the field of candidates
They absolutely do. If you go to a psychiatrist and get any sort of diagnosis, the FAA will pull your medical with the quickness. So pilots who are dealing with shit just self medicate out of fear of losing their medical and their career.
A detail buried in the article is that there was enough fuel left in the line for the engines to not die completely or be fired back up so he did get the levers pulled the pilots just reacted fast enough to rectify the situation. So yeah absolutely horrifying
If you lose all engines in a plane that big is it possible to glide it to the ground without power? my uncle that flew in nam said when he was training his instructor would just randomly kill the engine and tell him he had to put the plane on the ground asap
It's a fire handle. If there's a fire in the engine, the last thing you want to do is spray jet fuel on top of it. The handle closes a fuel valve at the wing spar to keep fuel from being supplied into the engine. Once you close that lever it will continue to supply fuel into the engine. And yes, you can restart engines while in the air. If the Auxiliary Power Unit was off then you would lose all hydraulic power to the plane aka controls Read up on the Gimli Glider https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Correct. My wife would love to talk to a therapist just to work through anxiety of raising a 20 month kid, working though a masters, and working full time as a pilot but is scared to death to do so. My therapist told me he’d talk to her and knows how to code everything so they’d never know she was seeing him but she’s still too afraid. If you lose your medical, you’re fucked, thus her getting her masters. It’s often at minimum a year if you get your medical pulled, usually longer if the airlines find out you’re meds.
In the series For All Mankind it was mentioned astronauts have the same fear of NASA finding out they were going to a shrink, because they would be grounded. I don't know if that is true or not, but it wouldn't be shocking if it was.
I was thinking of the one that glided into the Azores https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
Well, as an anxious flyer, this is pretty much the most terrifying scenario one could imagine. the German pilot who flew head on into a mountain still haunts me.
I would be shocked if it wasn’t. Most of those guys were military and to this day there’s a huge stigma about going to mental health. The military has been fighting it (but also not increasing the funding for services, go figure) but military police/security forces won’t go because they’re afraid they won’t be able to arm up and do their job, Intel/cyber people because it can pull your clearance, and pilots/air crew cuz it can ground you. The tell you now it’s UNLIKELY to do those things, but that doesn’t mean it CAN’T, and that’s in 2023. Back in the Space Race days, they’d either kick you the fuck out, or call you a homophobic slur over it.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot accused of attempting to shut down the engines on a plane midflight also allegedly attempted to open an emergency door after he was removed from the cockpit and said that he had taken psychedelic mushrooms for the first time, according to court documents filed Tuesday. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/lo...ooms/283-5d9c6df6-09c1-4f99-899b-825c3d072312
seems like BS. I'm sure they drug tested him. Never come close to hearing of someone who took mushrooms and then turned violent / suicidal
just throwing stories at the wall When police interviewed Emerson after the plane landed in Portland, Emerson told police he thought he was having a "nervous breakdown" and had not slept in 40 hours.
It’s a federal criminal affidavit quoting the defendant, I doubt it’s BS. At minimum he said he was on shrooms.
I believe they don't show up on drug tests. I'm tested regularly and randomly and I've always been told that it won't show up. Spoiler I've never done them though so I'm not 100%