I was flying to Leeds Bradford Always has bad winds at the airport for some reason and on approach we were just about to touch down when a huge gust of wind nearly caused a wing strike. No one was hurt and the aircraft was fine luckily. We just went around and landed after circling for 10min.
I forgot my coffee and had to return to return to base for it =(
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I related to your scenario more than any other on this thread
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I was on board a Emirates flight from Melbourne - Dubai and some passenger thought it would be a good idea to smoke in one of the toilets on board.
I was half asleep and alarms started going crazy across the whole airplane and multiple flight attendants came sprinting down the aisle to the bathroom.
They charged through the door like a bull and basically yelled at him to put it out. He then had to do a long walk of shame back to his seat where the cabin manager came up and gave him a lecture about how smoking on an aircraft is dangerous and he was putting other passengers lives at risk.
Luckily we didn’t divert though.
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Flying my KC130T, I’ve had a few already, fire smoke and fume, ended up being the galley oven on fire, had to land before we figured it out. Asymmetric flap condition, escape hatches fall in, to many fuel indicator failures (way to common, not really an emergency) Temperature dat control failures(fuelgoes full put or take). That’s just off the top of my head. That was a mix of me being a flight mech and flight engineer.
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A few years ago I was on a Southwest B733 from KDEN to KTUS. We were beginning our descent and the captain said we’d have to divert to KPHX. This was before I was an avgeek so i don’t know what was going on.
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On a Delta 767 from Orlando to Minneapolis, one of the passengers had 3 seizures, and we had to emergency land in Des Moines- by far the largest plane that had probably ever been in Des Moines compared to the CRJs
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I feel like if you are getting married to someone you should be at least sum what aware to things like that…
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Not an emergency but about 2 years ago I was on a southwest flight from KBUR- KRNO and on approach the winds started picking up as a snow storm was coming in. As we approached the airport the winds kept getting worse. The winds kept pushing us off the centerline and when we tried to land, forced the nose down towards the runway prompting to pilot to go around. When we came back around the winds were still bad and I could tell the pilot did not want to go around again as he somewhat forced the plane down on the ground.
Hope he recovered Josh, did he ever fly again?
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Engine failures, low oil, gear not extending, partial/full, depressurization, flight control failures, nav failures, flaps failures, bullet holes/pax wounded, anti skids, 4 engine failures on one plane, hot guns, hung rockets/bombs, brake failures, uncontrolled engine failures, cracked rotor blades, icing, basically everything you can imagine.
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As far as I know he said a couple of weeks ago that his dad is getting trained on the A350 now
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We just had a Bell 412 Swashplate broke on them
A swashplate is a device that translates inpu to the helicopter flight controls into motion of the main rotor blades.
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That was the irony KPIT!
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Lol im laughing so hard
*Base, requesting emergency landing
*why captain
*I forgot my coffee
*😂😂😂
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Not my experience, but I heard this tonight at a gala and it’s too good not to share.
One of the speakers was talking about in one of his cross country flights, a student needed to pull back the power since they were descending. The student then proceeded to pull the entire throttle lever out of its hole (this was a Cessna 150). He said the student was only making a screeching noise when it happen and froze up. Crazy stuff 😂
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was this one flight?
This is how it went,
“Tower, Helicopter 70TS just north of the field returning back to the airport.”
“Roger Helicopter 70TS, do you need any assistant?”
“Tower, Helicopter 70TS, uh negative just gotta pick some more things up, dispatch just requested it”
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Yes it was on one flight
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