Fatal B-17 crash

[Gridley380]

ORIGINAL: fcooke

Rant on

Seems Ms Homendy has already made up her mind. Which is great for an investigator (rolls eyes). Might as well ban all commercial Boeings and Airbuses as well, since we sadly occasionally lose them as well. And all motor vehicles, since accidents with them kill and maim far more people than planes every year. Oh yeah - I got run over by a bike (non-motorized - a push bike in European terms) a couple of years ago which sent me to the ER for stitches and a concussion - let's get rid of them as well. And falling trees take out quite few people every year - chop em all down.

And the idiot politician - apologies to any useful politicians out there - needs to do a little fact checking. Last time I checked a B-17G has self sealing fuel tanks.

Rant off.

(shrug) The FAA had no real reason to ground the 737 MAX fleet, but they did. It is hardly a stretch from there.

[Barb]

Very sad to loose the plane and people.

IMHO - the FAA will be probably looking into the why engine No.4 quit, and whether the pilots did everything possible to land safely.

The obvious course of the flight events was - Engine quit, feathered, turned correctly "not into dead engine", In combat conditions they would have salvo their unarmed bombs to lighten the ship (not really doable with passengers, right?), unfortunately they did not have the altitude, thus were short, hit the "end of runway" posts, touched down short of the runway, but were dragged into right side by the dead engine. Unfortunately the De-icing plant was in the way.