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9 hours ago, Marty_d said:

 

Looks like polished bare aluminium which is unusual for these slab sided planes.  Wonder if it was test flying before painting?

No way anyone would spend all that time polishing just to make the paint hard to keep on. I think he meant it when he polished it!

Also reported that someone from the plane company came out in a boat and got the passengers into life jackets. Good job they landed nearby.

11 minutes ago, facthunter said:

The speed will be projected speed along track NOT airspeed which we are used to seeing. A near vertical dive would register low as you don't progress along the surface much.  Nev

So 313 knots projected on the flight radar track may have been two and a half times that given the sudden altitude loss that is accompanied?  That being the case, why would you fly on for your destination rather than divert to Roma or return to Toowoomba?

19 hours ago, facthunter said:

Strong possibility. Any plane subject to severe overload or a hard landing has to have inspections of relevant parts of the structure. or get a permit to fly (No pax) to a place where it can be done. You'd have to be very lucky to get one for that  AIRCRAFT in those circumstances Limping might not be the best word as it flew normal speed and levels till something happened.   Nev

The something happened north of Dulacca much nearer to Toowoomba than to Mount Isa, which may have been a better place to limp to. While they reacted to the something, they maintained near perfect track while losing a whole heap of altitude and airspeed rising over 300 knots.

5 hours ago, facthunter said:

It looks as though it's had an "UPSET" earlier in the Fight that exceeded a lot of limits and resulted in total failure later (as well it would).   Nev

Its logged speed was over 260knots but it didn't seem to exceed 223 in the later part of its final flight. Are you suggesting that it was limping to its destination?

Given that it was doing 223 knots at 28050 ft in a straight line then suddenly decelerated less than 100 knots while losing 4000 feet doesn't seem like normal fire monitoring activity. It had a return flight to Townsville logged for later that afternoon. 

This shows VH-ATF as BD 275 so that could be where the confusion came from.

12 minutes ago, onetrack said:

I believe there has been an error in media ID, and the aircraft was not operating as Birddog 275, but as Birddog 370. It appears to be VH-HPY.

 

370 appears to be VH-ATF though!

This was one of six 737 in their fleet so if the premium was more than 17 percent they would still be in front.

https://www.mackayandwhitsundaylife.com/article/i-thought-we-were-going-to-drown-plane-crash-survivor-shares-story

This article shows a photo of the wreckage. Would be interesting to know it the under carriage inverted during the ditching or the recovery. I could also have impacted the ability to open the doors inverted like that.

On 02/02/2022 at 8:34 AM, Old Koreelah said:

I prefer elastic-side boots so I can slip my feet out of them if caught in a crash.

I find my old favourites are ok but anything half decent squeeze my feet and make them go to sleep about an hour into a long flight.

Incident involving a plane and a train on a road. NTSB will have to draw on all the areas of their expertise for this investigation.

How to convert to bus bar?

I saw about 8 cropdusters working between Boomi and Boggabilla yesterday. It was quite remarkable that half the country was underwater and the rest was highly developed irrigation diverting flood water, business as usual. Two working at 90 degrees to each other, when their runs coincided, turned into the same space. Must have been uncomfortable even for the pros!

There was a lot of radio traffic around WeeWaa and Goondiwindi this morning. Sad to know one of us didn't get home.

On 02/07/2021 at 4:13 PM, jackc said:

We won’t have spare grain to help them…….

With a systematically disarmed population sparely distributed, and an underfunded defence force we will be powerless to stop them stepping off from their string of Pacific naval bases and taking what we have!

2 hours ago, onetrack said:

Judging by the condition of those 3 blokes in white shirts, they haven't been involved in anything that even relates to exercise, in recent times. So I guess that means they're very senior desk pushers.

They are NSW rural fire service bureaucrats. The blokes who do the actual work wear blue or yellow shirts and yellow coats!

On 04/02/2021 at 10:11 AM, APenNameAndThatA said:

Make sure you fit. I'm 1.94 m and don't fit in a Savannah.

Did you try in an adjustable seat model or the original seat layout. I am a long bodied 189cm and fit quite comfortably in the standard seat. We fitted a 6' 9" bloke in an XL at Bundaberg airshow. He had more head space than I do but was a bit tight around his knees under the dashboard. Adjustable bucket seats are a whole different story!

7 hours ago, kgwilson said:

I have never attempted it myself and never will.

And hope I never will perhaps? Who knows how any of us will react until the fan goes off and the temperature rises 

20 minutes ago, onetrack said:

At least he selected a relatively clear outlanding spot! Could've been much worse, there's a lot of tiger country in Tassie, isn't there! 

Tassy tiger's gotta live!

On 07/11/2020 at 9:29 AM, Bill said:

Appears they may have done a touch & go or missed approach on 09 & lost it on climb out.

The Flightaware track looked like two uneventful circuits followed but a wider circuit and a premature turn mid base leg before the trace ceased.

One of the reports I read said he crashed on landing.

much easier than squeezing it out of a nozzle.

The Loctite superglue GEL is better because it fills the spaces under the base and they don't peel off so easily. The nozzle is not hard to use with the Gel.

I had failed to lodge my latest flight plan so I had to ring her to rectify.