National Aeronca Association Bulletin Board

How about a BIG one.?! The C5A that crashed at Dover AFB,DEl, last April. A buddy who flew corporate 737 and gulfstream described the CVR which he has. Three INSTRUCTOR PILOTS,SIM rated also. Lost engine on takeoff. Powered back, killed dead engine. Notified tower of return to field. Cleared. Descending out of 3500' PIC powered up two good engines and bad one he had just shut down. (Naturally it did not respond.) He's on two and slowing DOWN! NOT one of the THREE...PLUS instuctor FLIGHT ENGINEER caught mistake. Now slowing to 145. At 140mph, and 150 feet it stalled just off threshold....half mile, and crashed...100 G impact, broke into three pieces. No one killed due to immense size and crush factor but several badly injured. Amazing but not uncommon. (IE: PIC of Swissair near Halifax Nova Scotia...bad decisions killed all.) Old news dept: Mallard in Florida was found to have a cracked spar, severely corroded. Bad Maint.

I have a copy of the video readout of the CVR and recorder of the C5 accident if anyone is interested. No one in the cockpit was "on the ball" and it was a long series of things that caused this one.

Pls send me an email and I can email it to you but its 4-5 megs of data so a long download unless you have high speed.

And now you have to delete it otherwise the grown ups will chase you !!!!

Paranoia or what ?