Amazing 737 landing on a New Orleans levee

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[Jack]

You do know that is a reenactment, right?

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You do know that is a reenactment, right?

You don't say!

[Jack]

You don't say!

You thought that was actual footage.

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You thought that was actual footage.

Doesn't every cockpit have a film crew on board?

[Jack]

Doesn't every cockpit have a film crew on board?

Do you have the film of when they took the Plane OFF the Levee?

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Do you have the film of when they took the Plane OFF the Levee?

Keep rolling your eyes... maybe you'll find a brain back there?

[Jack]

Keep rolling your eyes... maybe you'll find a brain back there?

So. The Plane is STILL ON THE LEVEE?

[Guno צְבִי]

The flight entered clouds at FL 300 (about 30,000 feet or 9,100 metres), the crew selecting "continuous ignition" and turning on engine anti-ice to protect their turbofan engines from the effects of precipitation and icing, either of which is capable of causing a flameout, where the engines lose all power. Despite flying a route between the two areas of heavy precipitation shown on radar, they encountered heavy rain, hail, and turbulence. Passing through 16,500 feet (5,000 m), both engines flamed out, leaving the jet gliding with neither engine producing thrust or electrical power. The auxiliary power unit (APU) was started as the plane descended through 10,500 feet (3,200 m), restoring electrical power. While attempts to "windmill start" the engines using the airflow generated by the plane's descent were unsuccessful, the pilots were later able to start them using the engine starters, which were powered by the APU. However, neither engine would accelerate to normal idle speed, much less to a point where it was producing meaningful thrust. Attempts to advance the throttles only resulted in overheating of the engines, so they were once more shut down to avoid catastrophic failure.

At this point, the pilots began to prepare for a ditching, as no runway was reachable with the remaining altitude. Dardano lined up with a canal and prepared the aircraft for a water landing. During this time, Lopez spotted a grass levee to the right of the canal, and suggested that the landing be attempted there. Dardano agreed, and landed the airliner in an unpowered glide adjacent the narrow grass levee on the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) industrial complex

[Doc Dutch]

Cool event. I hadn't heard this one. Thanks for sharing.


https://aviation-safety.net/database...?id=19880524-0

https://www.nola.com/archive/article...fc449b126.html


A few months later a TACA DC-6 cargo plane was lost killing all three crew members after the wing hooked the ground in a similar off-airport landing: https://apnews.com/6941d5f8275cdb2be31f1eccda6a8e5f

https://aviation-safety.net/database...?id=19880720-1

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So. The Plane is STILL ON THE LEVEE?

You live there, don't you know? The pilot did a miraculous job of landing that plane, it's up there with Sully on the Hudson.

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So. The Plane is STILL ON THE LEVEE?

#Bye bye Miss American Pie took a Boeing to the levee because it wouldn't fly#

[Jack]

You live there, don't you know? The pilot did a miraculous job of landing that plane, it's up there with Sully on the Hudson.

They took the Plane to New York?

[AProudLefty]

He pulled a Sully.

[AProudLefty]

They took the Plane to New York?

Are you trying to bug Grajonca? If so, you might be doing a good job.