P-3C Ditches with Four Engines Out, All Survive!

"tscottme" wrote in
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Great story. When I was in college a P-3C was at the airport beside
the school and a couple of alumni were on the aircraft. During a tour
of the aircraft one of them pointed to the parachutes stowed along the
cabin wall and mentioned none of them would ever be used, nobody
wanted to jump, they all seemed to prefer "riding it in." I don't
understand that.

I've only been under a sport chute a few times, but I'd take my
chances under a parachute any day than betting I could keep my face
off the aircraft structure during the impact.

Judging from some of the things I was asked to do for a
P3 flight sim on one occasion, putting the aircraft down on
a handy flat service was not without the realm of possibility and
probably survivable. The Dutch seemed to think so anyhow.

IBM

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