Spoilers in B737-800

Spoilers in B737-800
Originally uploaded by Madhur.

Here is the closeup of the spoilers being deployed on my landing to Pune Airport (VADP) on 28th October. Capt. R.K. Ahuja piloting a Boeing 737 made a smooth landing in cloudy morning with visibility of 2 miles.

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Mystery of Oct 31st in Aviation History

On this day,

An EgyptAir 767-300ER crashed in the Atlantic Ocean about 60 miles (96 km) south of Nantucket Is. The aircraft, with 203 passengers and 14 crew members, crashed shortly after taking off from JFK airport early in the morning of 31 October 1999. All aboard the aircraft were killed. The accident was investigated by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and the final report submitted in March 2002.

 

Flight 990 a Los Angeles-New York-Cairo flight operated by EgyptAir. On October 31, 1999, at around 1:50 a.m. EST, Flight 990 dove into the Atlantic Ocean, about 60 miles south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.

 

Radar and radio contact with the Boeing 767-366ER aircraft (Registration number: SU-GAP) was lost 30 minutes after the aircraft departed JFK Airport in New York on its flight to Cairo. The flight departed from its flight level and dove to 16,000 feet, then climbed again to 24,000 then continued to dive, hitting the Atlantic Ocean within the span of 36 seconds.

 

Flight data showed that the flight controls were used to move the elevators in order to initiate and sustain the steep dive. Forces on the captain's and first officer's control columns were recorded and completely consistent with the recorded elevator deflections and a struggle for control of the aircraft. There were no other aircraft in the area. There was no indication that an explosion occurred on board. The engines operated normally for the entire flight until they shut down and the left engine was torn from the wing from the stress of the manuevers.

 

An investigation by the NTSB determined that the relief first officer, Gamil Al-Batouti, at the controls while the captain was out of the cabin, turned off the autopilot, and deliberately crashed the plane into the ocean, while calmly reciting "Tawakalt ala Allah" ("I put my trust in God") and counteracting the captain's efforts to recover from the dive. His motivation for these actions can only be guessed and are not addressed, but suicide or homicidal intentions towards some of the passengers or crew are possibilities in light of the NTSB analysis.

 

More reports:

The Enterprise Mission - The REAL Mystery of Egypt Air flight 990

http://www.welfarestate.com/flight990/

 

Difference between the FS flying and Real Flying :)

I came across at a very good article which tell us the differences involved in the

Real flying of airplane and simulator flying. Many flight simulator enthusiasts think

That they can fly the real plane with little more training after gaining proficiency in

Simulator flying. Well, this is not true at all, for details ……. Read on here :

 

http://www.homepages.mcb.net/bones/04fs/MP/Procedures.htm

 

 

Mangalore's Brand New Airport

VT-DKB First ever photo of India’s brand new International Airport and runway at Mangalore.(Inauguration on Oct 3rd, 2006) New runway is also a hilltop runway 336 feet above sea level making for interesting landing experience. Taken from Air Deccan ATR72-500 after taking off for Bangalore in severe storm conditions

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Something about my home city airport

Earlier known as Palam Airport, it was renamed IGI airport with the inauguration of a new international building (Terminal 2) on 2 May 1986. The older Palam airport (Terminal 1) is exclusively used for domestic operations. There is also a separate Technical Area for the use of VVIP movements.

The rated capacity of IGI airport's domestic area is said to be 8.4 million passengers per annum whereas the actual throughput last year 2005 was estimated variously at 10.5 million (an excess of 25%), 13 million passengers and (lately) "over 15 million passengers a year". The throughput may need to be ascertained correctly.

Delhi Airport has two non-parallel runways: the main runway 10-28 (12,500 ft) and an auxiliary runway 09-27 (9,229 ft). Runway 10-28 is one of the few runways in Asia equipped with CAT III-B Instrument Landing System. The winter of 2005 witnessed a record number of disruptions at Delhi airport due to fog/smog. Since then some domestic airlines have trained their pilots to operate under CAT-II conditions of minimum 350m visibility. On 31 March 2006, IGI became the first Indian airport to operate two runways simultaneously following a test run involving a SpiceJet plane landing and a Jet Airways plane taking off at the same time.