"Vaughn Simon" wrote in message
...

"Peter Dohm" wrote in message
...
My personal favorite, in a goulish sort of way, remains the
Southern Airways Flight 242 crash in 1977; in which a witness heard the
roar
of the jet engines as the DC-9 glided past--even though both engines had
been inoperative for some time due to FOD.

I have never had an engineless DC-9 glide past me, but I have had
lots of
engineless sailplanes zoom past me and guess what? They sound like jets,
only
not so loud. I imagine that flamed-out DC-9 going by at 100+ knots also
sounded
like a jet, only not so quiet.

Vaughn


As does a Cessna 150 with 40 degrees of flaps, at a level between the other
two.

However, my point is that what the observer believed he heard was not what
he really heard--from which I am making the inference that we have little
reason to presume whether the Lancair was suffering a series of compressor
stalls.

Peter
Just pointing out one source of the problems with news stories.