cleared to land, but the crew elected to go around just after ATC had warned them of a potential birdstrike. It looks as if a birdstrike did, indeed, take place, and the crew declared a Mayday emergency shortly after that.
It was like that, but worse," Escoffier says during the call. "In four seconds the boat nosedived, the bow folded at 90 degrees, I put my head down in the cockpit, a wave was coming, I had time to send one text before the wave fried the electronics." It wa...
-Someone shoots a jet pilot in the head with a pistol mid flight through both cockpit windows-There are several mannequins left at the edge of the numerous practical explosions-Luis Guzmán has a minor role-Christopher Walken looks completely chill the whole time, even while chucking a grenade,...
RECENT discussion has focussed on the protection of military aircrew from the rigours of operating high performance, agile aircraft while at the same time expecting high mental and physical performance to meet the operational requirements of a mission. The cockpit space, seat design and availability ...
In the controlled rest category, the pilot sleeps in the cockpit; in bunk rest, they sleep or take rest either in the passenger cabin or in a separate enclosure
the rudder pedal, just as the Mitchell began to dive. He fought to regain level flight but the controls felt like lead. He tried with his feet to get more leverage but found his right leg useless. There was a jagged hole in the cockpit where the flak shell had burst. One shell ...
(He actually got out of the role by playing up his ankle injury he sustained on the set when he fell out of a prop cockpit.) Peter Sellers wasn’t as great a performer as many people said he was yet he somehow managed to get audiences to react with glee on his films. (The Life ...
Recording system operation CVR system The CVR recorded the total audio environment in the cockpit area, which may include crew conversation, radio transmissions, aural alarms, control movements, switch activations, engine noise and airflow noise. The CVR installed in VH-QPA retained the last 2 ...
If a depressurisation did occur two weeks ago, it might explain why the Malaysian pilots initiated a turn but failed to start a descent before succumbing to hypoxia. Another possibility is that the cockpit was filled with some kind of smoke. (Debate will continue to rage about the role of...
Recording system operation CVR system The CVR recorded the total audio environment in the cockpit area, which may include crew conversation, radio transmissions, aural alarms, control movements, switch activations, engine noise and airflow noise. The CVR installed in VH-QPA retained the last 2 ...