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> With the accumulated failures, an alarm siren went off immediately after the takeoff with sound and volume similar to that of a civil defense warning. The cre
by fsckin 13y ago
> With the accumulated failures, an alarm siren went off immediately after the takeoff with sound and volume similar to that of a civil defense warning. The crew could not figure a way to switch it off and the siren stayed on throughout the remaining 75 minutes flight. Eventually the captain ordered the navigator to borrow a pillow from the passengers and stuff it inside the siren's horn. Luckily, all landing gears extended and aircraft was able to land.
Yikes!
- memracom 13y agoI was on a British Airways flight from London to Chicago that had a similar alarm problem on a 767 which indicated landing gear failure. But on that flight, they shut it off manually after 15 minutes or so. I did notice that while we were still over the UK, the flight info system with the map kept showing all kinds of odd locations as our destination, as if the pilots were planning to set down at the nearest airport if anything else strange happened. Before landing at Chicago they warned us that the alarm would sound again, and that we should prepare for a rough landing in case the wheels did not come down fully. We also made a pass over the airport for someone on the ground to look at the landing gear with binoculars. The landing was normal.
- kalleboo 13y agoDisabling cockpit alarms seems to become routine for some pilots: > Other MD-80 pilots reported that some operators would occasionally intentionally open the P-40 circuit breaker to prevent annoyance of stall/flap warning annunciation during taxi operations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_255 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_255