Comments on: Hard lessons learned 25 years later http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1340 Online perspective from the editors of "AOPA Pilot". Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:24:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: W McGowan http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1340&cpage=1#comment-96741 W McGowan Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:41:21 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1340#comment-96741 What have we learned? I’m a 20yr 767 pilot w a major airline, and we are still making approaches into windshear exactly because we feel bulletproof w windshear warnings and because “the guy ahead got in”.
We are required to maintain 20 miles from cells in cruise flight, (yeah, right!) but there is no guidance for distance in the terminal area as long as there is no cell “on final”.
Airlines have had countless near misses and saves due to weather that go unreported, all because “we have to get in”. Is any one arrival worth that risk?

]]> By: J Ritchie http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1340&cpage=1#comment-96708 J Ritchie Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:50:50 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1340#comment-96708 Wow; has it really been 25 years?

Before this accident, in the aviation world we heard very little talk about low-level wind shear; it was one of those things you simply “looked out for”. Since that time, LLWS detection equipment has become standard at many larger airports.

Incidentally, one of the victims, Don Estridge, was the leader behind the design team of a device almost all of us use daily; the personal computer.

]]> By: Larry Tarr http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1340&cpage=1#comment-96707 Larry Tarr Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:19:09 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1340#comment-96707 Yeah, a DC-10 departing from O’Hare in 1979 was that “other” famous accident. The left engine of American Airlines Flight 191 separated from its wing and ripped apart the hydraulics connected to the control surfaces. The left wing stalled and the plane spun to the ground. Everyone on the airliner died (271 people) and there were a couple of ground fatalities.

I remember the FAA grounding all DC-10′s until they were modified to prevent similar accidents. For several years afterward, the name “DC-10″ became a dirty word among the traveling public and many were fearful of booking flights on this aircraft.

]]> By: Tom Haines http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1340&cpage=1#comment-96703 Tom Haines Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:32:22 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1340#comment-96703 You’re right Amlan. It was an L-1011. Now fixed in the blog. Thanks for reading.

]]> By: Amlan Gupta http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1340&cpage=1#comment-96700 Amlan Gupta Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:22:17 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1340#comment-96700 Hi Tom,

I thought that the plane was a L-1011, not a DC-10?

thx

Amlan

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