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AA flight 1051 MD-80 Horizontal Stab jammed on ORD-AUS flight today...
Best possible outcome - a safe landing.. My wife emailed & texted me in terror this afternoon. Pilot informed passengers of malfunction. Passengers prepped for emergency landing, flight circled for fuel burn. Thank you pilot and crew! AMR - please keenly maintain and inspect your aircraft especially with all the business distractions right now. Please accelerate the retirement of your aging fleet. (flightaware.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Weird. Nothing in the Austin Staesman as you would expect and no link other than to a flight aware schedule. Links?
funny how i am not finding this incident noted on Aviation Hearld or any of the other aircraft incident reporting sites, or even one single news story. let's face it press eats up anything bad about American Airlines. I hate to say without documentation of the incident, I question it even happened. Furthermore, without any documentation of the incident out there, do I dare say we have another case of disgruntled staff or former staff trying to cause issues?
Considering I was on the flight I was quite suprised I didn't see it in the news either. We landed with 4 firetrucks waiting and escorted us to the gate once they cleared us. It was a smooth landing and the pilot confirmed that it was a landing WITH a jammed horizontal stabilizer..At that point we all clapped. Not a full flight but definitely others there.
I wouldn't disagree with you, BUT, on down in this thread are a couple of comments, one from someone on the filght and another noting that it is an item trained for and can be handled with good CRM and a well trained crew. That said, I have never had one jam on me but I daresay I don't think it would be any fun, regardless of who was in the cockpit. That said, why it is not published in the usual rag sheets I dunno.
Pitch trim run-a-way and jammed stabilizer are part of your flight sim training. Good checklist and CRM procedures are nessasary in the cockpit. Part 25 certified aircraft can fly with these malfunctions. A well trained crew can deal with it.
"Please accelerate the retirement of your aging fleet???"
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