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Personally I rather think that the flight crew rather let the side down.
YES they made a successful crash landing without any casualties BUT!
They’re supposed to British dammit and yet some of the passengers reported afterwards,and of this there can be no doubt,the Captain looked a little pale
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Are you sure the passenger wasn’t just commenting on the extreme Caucasianness of said Captain? :dubious:
It’s worse than that, Lust4Life - the inappropriately-named first officer Mr Coward, who performed the incredible landing, said he’s having problems sleeping. Mind you, he does live in France, so is probably becoming effete.
According to the News of the World* one of the pilots used to live a life of wretched awfulness where packs of rampant air stewardesses used to cover him in chocolate and stick liquorice up his bum.
Details here:
The News of the World SFW, unless you work for Puritans
The poor bastard!
Looked like a nice group of people having a lot of fun. Good for them.
Lust4Life: I didn’t want to say anything, but at a few points during that press statement video clip, the Captain’s upper lip was clearly moving.
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According to the News of the World* one of the pilots used to live a life of wretched awfulness where packs of rampant air stewardesses used to cover him in chocolate and stick liquorice up his bum.
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I fucking hate the tabloids. Also, what kind of bastard would sell photos like that to them, to smear a fucking hero?
That said, he’s a good looking bastard, and the girls aren’t half bad either. If I was that good looking, I think I’d do the same thing. More power to them!
[QUOTE=Lust4Life]
Personally I rather think that the flight crew rather let the side down.
YES they made a successful crash landing without any casualties BUT!
They’re supposed to British dammit and yet some of the passengers reported afterwards,and of this there can be no doubt,the Captain looked a little pale.
Huh calls himself a Brit does he?
He should be ashamed of himself.
I’m sorry but I’m just too angry to go on.
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I heard he looked white, which is exactly how the British are supposed to look. Rule Brittania!
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I fucking hate the tabloids. Also, what kind of bastard would sell photos like that to them, to smear a fucking hero?
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Maybe the same kind that actually smeared him in the first place?
[QUOTE=1920s Style “Death Ray”]
Apart from the word “power” the two incidents have nothing in common. The Qantas aircraft lost electrical power. Shouldn’t happen but not really a big deal as there are alternate power sources including the batteries and a ram air emergency generator.
As an idea of the kind of redundancy aircraft have, our Dash 8s have four separate electrical power sources. It can lose three out of four and still be ok. It can then lose the fourth one and still run on batteries for 30 mins or so.
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Thanks to you and **Ale ** both for the info. I’m glad this is not some sort of epidemic!
[QUOTE=1920s Style “Death Ray”]
Autothrottle is not strictly an autoland function. On modern airliners the autothrottle is often engaged for the entire flight and controls the power to achieve the speed the pilots or autopilot wants.
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See, Broomstick, if you played with flight simulators you would know this. 
FWIW, had I been one of the survivors, I would not mind at all pitching in to pay for the pilot’s party suite expenses…
[QUOTE=Malacandra]
See, Broomstick, if you played with flight simulators you would know this.
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I do play with flight simulators… it’s just that I simulate biplanes and WWI era aircraft, not jumbo jets.
Completely coincidental to the timing of this thread, it appears that the Gimli Glider is about to make its last flight.
I had lunch today with the girlfriend of the third officer on the flight.
She’s taking great pleasure in pointing out to him that he is never again allowed to criticise her parking, as bumping into the odd bollard outside Sainsbury’s doesn’t really compare with mashing a £200m aeroplane into the tarmac. 
Apparently the pilots were genuinely suprised at the state of the plane when they got out - the bump when they hit didn’t suggest the level of damage actually caused.
On the CVR just before impact you’ll hear the third officer politely ask the captain “Is this catastrophic?”, with a rather terse “Yes!” in reply. 
Third officer? I thought the 777 had a flight crew of two? Maybe there was another guy along for the ride.
[QUOTE=Usram]
Third officer? I thought the 777 had a flight crew of two?
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[Adam Savage]Well, there’s your problem.[/Adam Savage]
[QUOTE=Usram]
Third officer? I thought the 777 had a flight crew of two? Maybe there was another guy along for the ride.
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It was a long flight - would it be done with only the two pilots?
[QUOTE=Usram]
Third officer? I thought the 777 had a flight crew of two? Maybe there was another guy along for the ride.
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Sorry, he was the First Officer (but “third” in the sense that there were three of 'em on the flight deck for the trip).
Standard cockpit crew is 3 x pilots for an Asia flight - captain, senior first officer and first officer.
He’d done the “middle stint” from China, and was in the jump seat for landing.
They asked him to attend the press conferences etc, but he declined, which is why he’s not in the press photos.
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On the CVR just before impact you’ll hear the third officer politely ask the captain “Is this catastrophic?”, with a rather terse “Yes!” in reply. 
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That reminds me of The Blues Brothers, near the end something explodes out of the engine through the hood.
Elwood: I think we trew a rod.
Jake: Is that serious?
[QUOTE=e-logic]
Sorry, he was the First Officer (but “third” in the sense that there were three of 'em on the flight deck for the trip).
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Ah, I see. I did actually think “flight crew of two” meant that they flew everywhere with just two officers on board, but on second thought that does sound rather unlikely :smack: