A Russian passenger plane carrying 81 people has made a "miracle" crash landing at a deserted air strip in Siberia after a complete mid-flight power failure, officials says.
The Tupolev (TU-154) airliner en route to Moscow on Tuesday was forced to glide down from its cruising altitude with no working navigation gear and at a high speed after its wing flaps failed, the general prosecutor's office said yesterday.
The 72 passengers, including three children, and nine crew members were in shock but unhurt after the pilot guided his plane down onto the defunct runway, overgrown with weeds, television images showed.
The pictures shown on television last night show the thrust reversers on. Can they be applied without engine power? Having watched the doc about the Gimli Glider, I get that some passenger planes have SHTF back up power, but I can't help but wonder.
It was an electrical failure, not an engine failure, according to the Aviation Herald. The loss of the electric fuel pumps limited the time airborne as well as increased the approach speed for landing as the flaps could not be lowered. http://avherald.com/h?article=430a1d01&opt=0
Media reports have been tritely vague on what type of "power failure" was experienced. The good thing is that all survived. Doubtful through whether the TU-154 will ever fly again.
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linecrew wrote:What I love most about the video clip is the complete and total lack of panic amongst the passengers. Cool heads prevail...very interesting.
Well, two of the passengers refused to continue the flight to the destination on another plane, and took the train
linecrew wrote:What I love most about the video clip is the complete and total lack of panic amongst the passengers. Cool heads prevail...very interesting.
Totally different than North America. More than once I've seen passengers on Dash 8s scream in horror that the plane was breaking apart when in fact the landing gear was begin lowered...
iflyforpie wrote:
Totally different than North America. More than once I've seen passengers on Dash 8s scream in horror that the plane was breaking apart when in fact the landing gear was begin lowered...
The powers that be here in N. America has carefully fostered a culture of fear, now we get to see all manner of entertaining manifestations, pass the popcorn SVP.
Yes, there is not as much fear about safety in the culture there overall. Not Buddhistic by any means, but still a bit. More tendency just to go, see what happens and deal with a situation as required . It is certainly an adjustment for anyone moving over here for the first few years seeing people to take their personal safety so seriously. It is all the same in the end, is not it?
linecrew wrote:What I love most about the video clip is the complete and total lack of panic amongst the passengers. Cool heads prevail...very interesting.
And they were not calling their lawyers...
I travelled a lot in Russia, and yes, they are not the chicken sh*t sort of people who scream: "We are gone a die!!!"
They die a lot, but differently...
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The part I like is where the guys stand around on the wing having a smoke. I was a pax on a Beaver on skis once when I was a kid. We were landing on a pond on glare ice and ran out of pond. The pilot tried to ground loop it to get stopped but we slid up over the bank of the pond going backwards and took off the tail ski. It also ruptured a tank so there was gas dripping outta the belly somewhere. A bunch of old aboriginal ladies were standing around the airplane, about ten feet away, looking at the damage and pointing at the leak. At least half of them were smoking pipes.
Joe Blow Schmo wrote:Wow, no engine driven fuel pumps! And so many other systems without redundancy! Apparently it doesn't have a RAT either.
This is NOT a Cessna 150 that you fly at the local flight club. This aircraft, as many western types has a complex fuel system,which consists of many sections in each wing,a tank in the tail (AUX) and central tank in the fuselage. Each wing tank has its own (ELECTRIC) pump that feeds central tank which feeds the engines. Central tank pump (ELECTRIC) brings fuel to the low pressure engine driven pump (DSN-44),which supplies fuel to high pressure engine driven pump (NR-30КU-154). This is a basic fuel system description of TU-154M.
What other systems without redundancy??? You clearly don't have any idea how complex aircraft functions...
