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What a plane crash feels like - United 232
Brad Griffin had his hands on the first class seat in front of him, which was the first row in the airplane. Gerald Harlon Dobson, a retired state trooper from New Jersey, sat with his wife, Joann, dressed in their festive Hawaiian clothes directly across from Rene Le Beau’s jump seat. Griffin had been meditating. He felt no fear, even though he could feel how unusually fast the plane was going. “And when we hit the runway,” Griffin recalled, “my seat belt pops.” He was stunned for a second,… (www.salon.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I have been to crash sites... Not pretty, and you do not want to remember a lot of the details.
I was a member of the Go Team at America West. I was ready, but forever grateful the team was never needed.
My uncle was on that flight and it's still hard to deal with even after all these years.
Even though there was such a loss of life and injuries, there would have been many more but for the superb airmanship. They told Haines later that 4 pilot groups had ran that scenario in the SIM and all totally crashed. It wasn't pretty but when you lose everything, you got to know how to FLY YOUR PLANE.
That last sentence is the crust of airmanship!
I've flown many crash scenarios in sims and I'm sure you have also. Hind-sight makes many of them easy to "live" through and the sim, due to still not yet 100% realism, makes some of them more difficult than in real life. I've flown this one three times, no hydraulics and jammed controls, except in a different type of aircraft. Each time we got the aircraft basically on an approach path similar to UA232 but red screened "crashed" due to the sims 5 degree bank limitation at touchdown. I don't remember what UA232's bank was at touchdown, but thank God we didn't have to ride through the rest of their arrival.
I've flown many crash scenarios in sims and I'm sure you have also. Hind-sight makes many of them easy to "live" through and the sim, due to still not yet 100% realism, makes some of them more difficult than in real life. I've flown this one three times, no hydraulics and jammed controls, except in a different type of aircraft. Each time we got the aircraft basically on an approach path similar to UA232 but red screened "crashed" due to the sims 5 degree bank limitation at touchdown. I don't remember what UA232's bank was at touchdown, but thank God we didn't have to ride through the rest of their arrival.
Bill - wanted to tell you I love your profile picture, Grumman aircraft at the close of WWII were some of the finest piston aircraft ever made. I wish the Bearcat and the Tigercat could have seen combat. They had everything - speed, maneuverability, firepower, toughness. I'm not sure offhand if they had range capability similar to or comparable to the great Mustang, but they sure had every other good fighter quality in abundance!
I just took a quick look at Wiki and did a quick Google search and saw no reference anywhere to Bank Angle, specifically on 232
Flt # 191 @ O'Hare. As the 2nd fire rig in....and after being given our orders..we walked through the site. Much of those were burned down...yet the young flight attended that I knelt down next to was only in her 20's and in 1/2. I prayed for her and the others that day.