Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Getting farther off topic, but I guess air crashes involve work done to metal!

There is a fairly accurate book about this "Free Fall" or FreeFall". The
plane was 727 or 737, been a long time since I read it. There is also a
movie that is quite accurate as to the sequence of events. it's a good read.

The plane is known as the "Gremile Glider" (after the abandoned RCAF field
it landed at) and was still flying recently. Spelling may be wrong.

There was an electronic failure in the fuel computers, there are two for
redundancy, that failed (a diode IIRC) and by popping the circut breaker to
that fuel computer the other one would work correctly.

IIRC someone reset the circut breaker and did not write up the origonal
problem so that the crew or fueling crew would know why one of the fuel
computers was off line.

The rest is a cascading series of events, one of which was the use of the
wrong conversion factor in a metric / english or vice versa caculation.

There was also a DC-10 driver that forgot to turn on the heaters on some
part of the fuel system and it all of a sudden got quiet, real quiet at
alitude. They were able to start the APU or it was running (different fuel
source) and they did a maximium glide waiting for the fuel system to warm
up.

Or as my flight instructor said "Spincter tightness is inversly related to
engine sound"

Hugh

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From: Jon Anderson <janders@...>
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Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Getting farther off topic, but I guess air
crashes involve work done to metal!


> William Scalione wrote:
>
> >
> > Why was an aircraft dispatched with no fuel quantity indications and
> > no fuel flow indications?
>
> I just read something on this. Don't know all the lingo of the trade,
> but there was something in writing that allowed this flight to proceed
> under the known conditions. The pilot initially didn't want to fly,
> don't recall exactly why he decided to depart, but I do recall it was
> only after they had gone over the fuel situation a couple times.
> Also, I seem to recall there was a failure of something or other that
> factored in, possibly a valve that prevented the center tank from
> filling? May be confusing this with another incident though.
>
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