I wonder how the NTSB on this one will read...

Dale wrote:

If it happens to me I'm finding a long, wide strip of pavement somewhere
to put the airplane.


Also, there was that DC-9 that did a beautiful gear up down in Texas
(Houston?) when they forgot to turn up the hydaulics. (At least in
the Navion you can't move the lever when you forget to turn the hydraulics
on).

In article , Ron Natalie wrote:
Also, there was that DC-9 that did a beautiful gear up down in Texas
(Houston?) when they forgot to turn up the hydaulics. (At least in
the Navion you can't move the lever when you forget to turn the hydraulics
on).

It was Houston (I was living there at the time). The DC-9 slid 7000 feet
on its belly at IAH.

It was a failure of CRM. The captain, who was flying, was gruff sort who
was griping about the weather and how it was going to ruin his tennis
plans. The first officer, well aware of something being wrong was
unwilling to challenge the captain because he had previously been
disciplined for challenging a captain.

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Dylan Smith wrote:
In article , Ron Natalie wrote:

Also, there was that DC-9 that did a beautiful gear up down in Texas
(Houston?) when they forgot to turn up the hydaulics. (At least in
the Navion you can't move the lever when you forget to turn the hydraulics
on).


It was Houston (I was living there at the time). The DC-9 slid 7000 feet
on its belly at IAH.

It was a failure of CRM. The captain, who was flying, was gruff sort who
was griping about the weather and how it was going to ruin his tennis
plans. The first officer, well aware of something being wrong was
unwilling to challenge the captain because he had previously been
disciplined for challenging a captain.


Yes, I remember...the culmination was the FO saying "somethings not right"
and the captain saying "I got it."