Hudson River Opportunity

Tony

You are probably right. Was a long time ago.

Think there was some discussion about snow or something on wing (long
time holding after de-ice) and power setting pilot used and
combination caused bird to not fly off normally in the snow storm on
R/W length available?

Is it just the American way for someone to risk his life to save
individuals involved in any kind of a catastrophe?

Big John
Big John



On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:51:31 -0500, TonyV
wrote:

brtlmj wrote:
On Jan 18, 1:16 pm, Tech Support wrote:
That accident was attributed to Pilot error as I remember.
Tried to take off with snow or frost or ice on wings.

Icing in the engines disabled some sensors, and the pilots thought
they were developing much higher power than they really did. I recall
reading that the accident was avoidable - had they recognized what was
wrong and pushed the throttles forward...

Shouldn't they have fire-walled the throttles regardless? I remember
reading about a Shorts driver, caught in a micro-burst, who did just
that - mandating an expensive engine hot section teardown. At the
"inquest" he was asked why he run his engines up to 120% of their rated
power. His answer was "I couldn't get any more".

Getting back to the Air Florida crash, the NTSB, when listening to the
cockpit voice recorder, immediately knew that the engines were not
producing enough power simply by the sound.

Tony V.