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plane makes emergency landing on calgary street
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maxwell
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thats an absolute nono. but very well done. and realistically if i was put in the same situation i would probably break the rules as well.
tmo1620
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Not far to the east of there is some much better choices for an emergency landing, 36th st wouldn’t be my first choice but not sure on specifics, but if he had a lil time I’d of landed east a bit
D.C
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They were 4 km's from the runway, if they had time I am sure they would've tried for that instead!
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should have just stopped at the nearest petro can, fueled up with some 94 octane, and took off again.......
in all seriousness, glad to see no injuries, and good on the pilot for being able to set it down on the street!
in all seriousness, glad to see no injuries, and good on the pilot for being able to set it down on the street!
Pilot was a "she"...if it had been a dude he would of made it....just kidding.
Props to her though, making that landing on a road barely as wide as the wingtips of the Navajo...in morning traffic...in the NE of all places. An amazing combination of skill, luck and fortitude. She can be my wingman anytime goose!
Navajo's don't fly well on one engine...there's a saying "when flying twin engine aircraft (loaded), if you experience an engine failure, the second engine will take you to the scene of the crash". In her case, she beat the odds, saved the passengers, the plane and will live to fly another day.
Chronic Cat
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Wow, Hats off to this gal. I'd say 75% of people wouldn't have had the same outcome there. Well done ma'am!
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skegpro
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Go on......
Stg2Suby
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Apparently 4 minutes before having to land on 36th Street they radio'd the tower about fuel pump failure
maxwell
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who really needs a fuel pump on an airplane anyways
I doubt there would be only one pump for BOTH engines. It will be interesting to see what Transport Canada finds out.
skegpro
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Bingo.
maxwell
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exactly.
Each fuel system for a multiengine airplane must be arranged so in at least one system configuration, the failure of any one component (other than a fuel tank) does not result in the loss of power of more than one engine or require immediate action by the pilot to prevent the loss of power of more than one engine.
so i will be curious to find out what happened! weird things happen. and when you are that close to landing and at that low of altitude you do not have much time to troubleshoot!
skegpro
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Do you fly back and forth to Valemount?
Makes alot of sense for you to have a plane.
DaveB
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Maxwell has a Valemont pipeline....it's like those money tubes at Costco....steps in, close the hatch....WHOOOSH, BANG. He's there.
Stg2Suby
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I couldn't find the article or I would link it here. It said the only radio correspondence was reference to losing fuel pump on one engine and requesting alternate runway. Did they lose the 2nd engine or came down with 1 still functional I'm not sure.
Airplane has two fuel tanks in each wing. Each engine has an engine driven pump, backed up by an electric pump.
Neither engine was producing power, or she'd have made it to the airport.
Maxwell seems to have some depth depth of knowledge here too. Another pilot?
Transportation Safety Board (TSB) is the investigator and will prepare the report. They are completely arms length from Transport Canada and Nav Canada. Unlike the crash that killed Jim Prentice, passengers and crew survived, and the airplane is in one piece (roughly) so the final report will be detailed and conclusive. You'd think they could publish it quickly, but it will still be a year.
Neither engine was producing power, or she'd have made it to the airport.
Maxwell seems to have some depth depth of knowledge here too. Another pilot?
Transportation Safety Board (TSB) is the investigator and will prepare the report. They are completely arms length from Transport Canada and Nav Canada. Unlike the crash that killed Jim Prentice, passengers and crew survived, and the airplane is in one piece (roughly) so the final report will be detailed and conclusive. You'd think they could publish it quickly, but it will still be a year.
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