As a former Navy carrier pilot, I am acutely aware of the
importance of the thrust, power and drag curve when landing. It appears, as the
enclosed videos indicate, that the pilots realized too late that the commercial
aircraft was too low and too slow to add power and gain altitude before the
recent tragic crash at SF International airport: Allen L Roland
Having landed commercially at SF Airport countless times over the
years, there is a few minute approach to the airport over water before landing
which always reminds me of landing on the carrier as a Navy interceptor carrier
pilot in the early 1960's.
As a Navy pilot, with over 150 all-weather landings, I was
constantly aware of the thrust, power and drag curve as I maneuvered the plane
for a landing on the carrier ~ always aware that if I got too low and too
slow, the bottom would fall out of my ability to gain altitude by adding power,
drag would prevail and the plane would stall and fall like a rock.
Here's
an eyewitness report
and video of the actual crash and a strong indication that the pilot was
probably too low and too slow and vainly tried to abort the landing ~ two
minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY_yA7eJXpE
And
here crash survivor (Eugene Rah) comments on the last few moments of the flight
and his awareness that the aircraft was too low and too slow and how he
braced himself before the crash ~ http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2013/07/07/vo-plane-sf-plane-crash-on-cam.courtesy-fred-hayes#/video/us/2013/07/07/nr-sf-plane-crash-survivor-eugene-rah.cnn
"Flying is
hours
and hours of sheer boredom punctuated
by seconds of stark terror." ~ Ernest
Gann
/ Fate Is The Hunter
Allen L Roland
Freelance Alternative
Press Online columnist and transformational counselor
Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and
private Skype consultations (allen@allenroland.com )
Allen
L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and
lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a
monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
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