received some information from a friend which may be helpful. Actually, its a set of books, so Ill just post some basic specs on your average MD11 passenger...
MERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 27, in route from Seattle to Tokyo, was about 45 minutes into flight over the Pacific Ocean when passengers and crewmembers in the...
ahnkd for the numbers! Really useful information. <br><br>That's what I was trying to say earlier about the guy who said they had dumped 208 tonnes of fuel:...
on't sweat the small stuff. Its all constructive criticism. It sounds like the worker was probably wrong and is probably gone? into seclusion.HaHA.<br><br>PS...
unday, January 31, 1999 <br><br>It's our right to know the facts<br>To the editor:<br>Miles Gerety, the brother of one of the 229 people killed on Swissair...
f the aircraft's maximum landing weight is<br>430.000lbs and their maximum gross weight was reported at 460.000 this obviously means they were 30.000lbs over...
f I may, I think a memorial of some kind should be part of the closure process. A memorial would give the occurence permanence and therefore educate those...
ax landing weight is 430,000 lbs, and fuel dump rate is 5,000 lbs per minute.<br><br>However, the weight of SR111 was not reported as 460,000 lbs, but rather ...
o each his (or her) own as far as a memorial goes...I would respect any wishes. There are many ways one can give memorial to their loved ones, and I think it's...
had asked earlier and didn't receive a response...does anyone know anything of the ATCs from Moncton and Halifax who spoke with the pilots that night? Are they...
eceived some information from a friend which may be helpful. Actually, its a set of books, so Ill<br> just post some basic specs on your average MD11 passenger...
am metric, not imperial, so I have no idea what the relationship between tonnes and pounds is. Can someone please tell me how many pounds there are in an...
umbers in perspective, <br>> remember the crew reproted their gross weight<br>> at 460.000 lbs."<br><br>Yeah, I saw that someone else on the CNN board...
ell you what. Lets use just your numbers. <br>that is roughly 15 minutes of dumping correct? <br>If they had started the dump immediately, would they have made...
t max landing weight the manual states <br>a roll out distance of under 7000ft. <br>That leaves us with over a thousand feet of runway and we still havent even...
tuart, please dont misunderstand me. Yes, it would have been tight but what Im saying is that in my personal opinion, there was no excuse not to go for the ...
arlier on, I remember someone posting something about an article in german. They had wondered if anyone knew how to translate it. My husband emailed me this ...
Investigators don't know for certain if fuel was dumped and then the valves closed or if problems aboard the jet kept the valves shut, preventing the crew from...
ts such a shame Barb. They needed to dump such a small amount to get down to the "legal" weight. <br>Im literally reading through almost a few hundred pages of...
viator, OK, you want a definite answer on a concrete question. Let me rephrase your question: Was it do-able, in theory, to dump enough fuel to get down to ...
tuart I respect your opinion an I always read what you post because you post some very good ideas, however this time, I cant buy it. <br>In almost 200 pages of...
viator, I don't know where you got your landing distance from, but that figure of 6,950 feet tells only a small fraction of the story. That number is for a...
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