[BITList] 380 Emergency from Singapore

[John Feltham]

G'day Hugh,

On 10/03/2011, at 7:33 PM, HUGH wrote:

<< I understand the need for attention to be paid to weight on a plane - what I don't understand is why so many important wires, conduits, hydraulic pipes, etc, are arranged in such a way that they can be compromised all at once. >>

I suppose that the very shape of an aircraft is such that wires have to go and come back through a very small space. As they said in the article - there was no way that they could shut down No. 1 engine. It continued to run for three hours after they landed. Strange isn't it.

The smallest things are know to have brought down aircraft.

I am aware of at least two occasions when a nut or screw has caused an a/c to crash.

One occurred to a Canberra in Germany a small screw or nut fell into the area that controlled the elevators and jammed them. The screw or nut was found in the meticulous search made on the wreckage.

In those days all tools had names engraved on them. The man who had owned the tool was aNational Serviceman and had been demobbed. He was called back to the Crash Enquiry. Apparently he said that the tool was his but that it may or may not have been him who left it there. There being a culture of borrowing tools.

The rules were changed after that and everyone was issued with a set of disks with name son. All tools were placed on Tool boards. To take a took you left a disk. At the close of play on each day the Chief wold inspect the took board before we were allowed to leave. Empty space? Hell to play.


ooroo


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