“Let’s rewind the tape and see what you did wrong.” “Sure Mel,” replied Chet as the two men stood up and stepped out- side the 747 cockpit simulator. Rivers’s supervisor, who was sitting beside him watching the whole thing. “Hey Chet, that could ruin your whole day,” said Capt.
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The plane and its full load of 100 tons of fuel crashed with a sickening explosion into the hillside just above a densely populated housing area. Rivers was unable to see the mountain due to the thick fog that had rolled in, but the plane’s ground proximity sensor sounded an au- tomatic warning, calling “terrain, terrain, pull up, pull up.” Rivers frantically pulled back on the stick to clear the peak, but with the spoilers up and the plane still in a skidding right turn, it was too late. Rivers immediately did so, removing that danger, but now San Bruno Mountain was directly ahead.
As the plane neared stall speed, the control stick began to shake to warn the pilot to bring the nose down to gain air speed. With the nose still pointed up, the heavy jet began to slow. Spoilers-panels on the tops of the wings-increasing drag and lowering lift. That action extended the ailerons-control surfaces on the trailing edges of the wings-to tilt the plane back to the left. Rivers instinctively turned his control wheel to the left to bring the plane back on course. With two engines on the left wing at full power and only one on the right, the plane was pushed into a right turn, bringing it directly towards San Bruno Mountain, located a few miles northwest of the airport. He immediately shut down the engine, stopping the explosions and shaking. Rivers was able to tell that the right inboard engine was malfunctioning, back- firing violently. Although the plane was shaking so violently that it was hard to read the instruments, Capt.
Several loud explosions shook the craft and smoke and flames, easily visible in the midnight sky, illuminated the right wing. Suddenly the plane began to shudder violently. It looked like the start of another routine flight. Rivers pulled the throt- tle back and the airplane took to the air, heading northwest across the San Francisco peninsula towards the ocean. At full throttle the plane began to roll ponderously down the runway, slowly at first but building up to flight speed well within normal limits. Rivers noticed that San Francisco’s famous fog was creeping in, obscuring the hills to the north and west of the airport. As he revved his four engines for takeoff, Capt.
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The giant plane, weighing almost 450,000 pounds by itself, was carrying a full load of passengers and baggage, plus 400,000 pounds of fuel for the long flight from San Francisco to Australia. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.” -Thomas Carlyleġ.1 Introduction On March 19, 1999, the following story appeared in The Wall Street Journal: Captain Chet Rivers knew that his 747-400 was loaded to the limit.
Harrell−Ghosh−Bo wden: Simulation Using ProModel, Second Edition
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