Elevator won't go up • Pacer must go down • ASI real pilot story

[Garfly]

 

 

Elevatot

[skippydiesel]

Non of us e know for sure how we will react in an emergency but this pilot pretty well ignored all the basics;

Only 1000 ft above undulating heavily treed terrain ("Tiger Country")

No real exploration of controls - power may have arrested decent allowing a return to airfield or more open country/landing options

Flaps didn't come down - slowed his landing possibly far less damage than what occurred.

[Garfly]

Here's another elevator failure story that happened near Dorrigo NSW in the late 80's.

The pilot involved was none other than "Student Pilot" who posts here sometimes.

This is from a Special Edition of Aviation Safety Digest called The Human Factor. The article title was Decisions, Decisions.

 

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[Thruster88]

Well done student pilot. It would have taken a serious lack of maintenance for this to happen. This is how some Airworthiness Directives come about, things that should have been  fixed with normal maintenance. I have installed Beaver elevators.  

 

He did only lose one elevator, no biggie 😂

Edited February 26, 2022 by Thruster88

[F10]

 while Yeah if there's one thing about a separate trim tab setup, is that it gives you another way to fly the aircraft, if you don't lose the whole elevator. Pitch control with power changes can work, but not easy. Bad sitch really. I recall the terrible Japan Airlines 747 accident when the rear fuselage pressure bulkhead failed due to an old repair done incorrectly. As a result, several thousand cubic metres of pressurized air flooded into the tail section and blew off the entire tailfin, or about 90% of it. Also lost elevator control I understand. They flew it for quite a while using differential thrust, but eventually hit some high ground, terrible event.

Edited March 2, 2022 by F10