Mentour Pilot – SAS flight 751-the Gottröra Miracle
An evening pause: Hat tip Björn Larsson a.k.a. LocalFluff. who adds,
This stuff is more complicated than I thought. You could pick your favourite(!) airplane crash. The fantastic Hudson river landing for example. My favourite is this one, with a happy ending, because it crashed near to where I lived as a kid back then. The crash site, a potato field, was then locally called The Gottröra International Airport. Someone even put up a sign with that name at the bus stop nearby.
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An evening pause: Hat tip Björn Larsson a.k.a. LocalFluff. who adds,
This stuff is more complicated than I thought. You could pick your favourite(!) airplane crash. The fantastic Hudson river landing for example. My favourite is this one, with a happy ending, because it crashed near to where I lived as a kid back then. The crash site, a potato field, was then locally called The Gottröra International Airport. Someone even put up a sign with that name at the bus stop nearby.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Mentour pilot is really good, I’ve been subscribed to his YouTube channel for a while. He’s a real professional.
Agreed regarding Mentour Pilot. I’ve been watching him for a few years now.
I like how he describes how the crew handled it. Traditionally Swedish. A colleague pilot was transported as a passenger and enters the cockpit to help out with the check list when both engines had stopped. “So that you can concentrate on flying the thing”. Not much is said at all as the sound recording shows. Everyone knows what is to be done anyway, no point in talking about it. When the wheels hit the tree tops the pilot calmly informes ground control:
“- This is SK751. We are crash landing now.”
(Now I am adding stuff to make a joke, but then the pilot walked out of the broken hull and told the passengers that coffee is free now, the machine still works).
I happened to live nearby when it happened. Some guy put up a sign on the bus stop next door reading:
“Gottröra International Airport”. We could joke about it because everyone miraculously survived. It was Christmas time.
I never liked the loss of the flight engineers. Bob Welsh cost cutting nonsense that hurt aviation.
Third (I think) for Mentour Pilot. The guy knows his stuff, and looks to keep up on the art.
An amazing outcome. No deaths. A real credit to everyone involved.