No, I don't know the details, but will always remember the accidents as
my boss was on the Cincinnati flight and my parents lost friends in
the Lake Michigan accident.

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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Do you know if part of that was to limit landing flaps to 40
degrees?


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P


"sfb" wrote in message
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| Mid sixties. United dropped one at Salt Lake and another
in Lake
| Michigan coming into O'Hare. America at Cincinnati. The
high T tail
| exacerbated the sink rate so Boeing and the airlines
revised the landing
| configurations .
|
| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in message
| news:5_jnf.28491$QW2.16430@dukeread08...
| If I remember correctly, the 727 had a series of landing
| accidents because the full flap setting was about 50-60
| degrees and if the pilot got too slow, they could not
| recover. Maximum extension was reduced.
| Looking on the Internet, I found a further limitation
for
| couple approaches with certain autopilots. Is there any
| early 727 pilot out there with the facts on the first
727
| and any changes in certification re flaps?
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