[WWI] (ot)Don't you just love it...

[Steven Perry]

Another piece of righteous aviating. I once flew into NO on a Continental DC-9 in a Tstm. That was one of the few times I have been truly frightened in an airplane. I've never had that much turbulence that low. We came in over the water and not to darn far over it either. I thought for sure we were going to dip a wing and end up in the drink, then the runway appeared and we were down. I don't know how the pilot found the terminal it was raining so hard. Y'all brew some whopper thunderstorms down there Ernie.

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24 May 1988; TACA 737-300; near New Orleans, LA: The aircraft was approaching the New Orleans airport when it encountered heavy precipitation, including hail up to 1.25 inches (32 mm) in diameter. The aircraft experienced a dual engine flameout at about 16,200ft due to water ingestion, and the flight crew were able to establish emergency electrical power at about of 10,500ft. The crew was unsuccessful in their attempts to restart the engines, and had to execute an emergency landing on a grass strip on a levee on the Intercoastal Waterway (after initially planning to ditch the aircraft on the waterway). The flight crew successfully made an unpowered landing and none of the 45 occupants were injured. The aircraft was repaired and flown off the levee. 
NTSB Incident Synopsis 

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From: wed317 at mchsi.com
To: wwi at wwi-models.org
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:20:43 -0600
Subject: Re: [WWI] (ot)Don't you just love it...



  E.,

       That doesn’t take away from this other pilot at all. I don’t recall that crash, but then 15-20 years ago, my priorities and TV watching habits were very different. J



  Warren











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