Re: Success stories
John Wiley (jwiley_at_mindspring.com)
Fri, 07 Aug 1998 22:21:15 -0400
At 00:07 08/07/98 EDT, you wrote:
>
>Spence,
> I still like the one about an Air Force Reserve heavy weight C-5 taking off
>from DOV that struck 127 Canadian snow geese at 850'. Number four engine
>suffered catastropic failure, number three was oscilliating 2.5 -3' on the
>pylon. The crew was airborne some 28 minutes. In that time they diumped
>58,000 lbs of fuel, configured to troop compartment (73 PAX), ran numerous
>emergency checklists, many were completed without the flying pilot involved
>because he was "flying the airplane". The jump seat pilot and and examiner FE
>assisted. Everyone was busy, real busy but noone did anything without
>inforning everyone on interphone. There was no panic, no loss of SA and damn
>good airmanship. The AC was a LTC and a pilot wiith, you guessed it, United.
>I DO NOT wonder if this CRM training "pays off". A thousand of these and other
>stories are out there, good CRM is practiced everyday by effective crews.
>Charlie
FWIW, I think the guy driving the C-5 is a guy named Oates. After this save,
he went onto to plan the shipping of cruise missles to the Gulf in the
buildup before Desert Storm. He now wears two stars and is with USAirways...
not United.
I could be wrong.
Wiley