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Aviation Geeks unite?! Anybody else care about planes here?

What's your level of interest in aviation?!


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That’s well above my pay grade—these guys are far and away more knowledgeable:


F119 Doctor looks to have the answer.

The engines can spool down more quickly than some would guess.

It could very well be that the fuel flow chip is like a bad natural pacemaker stumbling/failing

That happens to a motorist, and a lack of ample blood flow can make him crash too.

Speaking of street traffic—I have seen artists conceptions of lines of cars passing through each other’s gaps at intersections with no lights.

If your car slows just a tad while doing so—it is chain-reaction city-Johnson

Had the chip failed at altitude, windmilling could have allowed a restart.

I seem to remember footage of a twinjet that also crashed right after take-off…into some trees….my google-fu is weak.

A spooky read
 
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George Kennedy finally got the lead as the engineer in that one.
He did get the lead, but as the copilot. And he also got a cringey love scene. :barf:

Airport '77 is my favorite Airport movie. The odd thing was that most of the airplane scenes took place underwater instead of up in the sky. The movie featured the Boeing 747. I guess that was the plane in vogue at the time.
 
He did get the lead, but as the copilot. And he also got a cringey love scene. :barf:

Airport '77 is my favorite Airport movie. The odd thing was that most of the airplane scenes took place underwater instead of up in the sky. The movie featured the Boeing 747. I guess that was the plane in vogue at the time.

and was later ripped off in an episode of Airwolf.

okay lets be nice and say borrowed as they used footage from the Airport 77 according to the IMDB trivia.
 
Shatner and Scheider both captains there…

I bought an old paperback novel called THE PROVING FLIGHT which may have inspired AIRPORT.

 
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Watching a TV program right now about the Air India crash and they are speculating that the captain of the ill fated flight deliberately turned off the fuel switches to crash the plane.

Speculating that he was still getting over grief of a death of close family
 
Watching a TV program right now about the Air India crash and they are speculating that the captain of the ill fated flight deliberately turned off the fuel switches to crash the plane.

Speculating that he was still getting over grief of a death of close family

You really need to watch something more intelligent and look at the nature of the fuel flow switches- it would be very obvious if they were deliberately turned off.
 
You really need to watch something more intelligent and look at the nature of the fuel flow switches- it would be very obvious if they were deliberately turned off.

I am not taking anything they said as gospel. It was very obvious what they were going for with the program.

I think official findings will do thank you
 
I bought an old paperback novel called THE PROVING FLIGHT which may have inspired AIRPORT.
The 1970 movie Airport was based on the novel by Arthur Hailey. He wrote a number of novels about the inner workings of some business or institution, including Hotel, Wheels, and The Moneychangers.
 
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