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Accidents and Incidents Involving the Boeing 377 - Pan Am Flight 6, Pan Am Flight 202, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2, Pan Am Flight 7 (Paperback)
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Accidents and Incidents Involving the Boeing 377 - Pan Am Flight 6, Pan Am Flight 202, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2, Pan Am Flight 7 (Paperback)
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Chapters: Pan Am Flight 6, Pan Am Flight 202, Northwest Orient
Airlines Flight 2, Pan Am Flight 7, Pan Am Flight 845/26. Source:
Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online.
Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book
club where you can select from more than a million books without
charge. Excerpt: Pan Am Flight 6 - The service originated in
Philadelphia, travelling eastwards around the globe via many stops,
with a final scheduled destination at San Francisco. On the evening
of October 15, 1956 the flight was operated over its final stages
by a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, named "Clipper Sovereign Of The
Skies" (Pan Am fleet number 943) and registered N90943. The
aircraft took off from Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, at 8:26pm HST
on the flight's concluding leg to San Francisco. After passing the
point of equal time, the flight requested and received permission
to climb to an altitude of 21,000 ft. When that altitude was
reached, the number 1 engine entered an overspeeding regime,
simultaneously with the reduction of power. The First Officer, who
was flying the plane, immediately slowed the plane by further
reducing power and by extending the flaps, and then an attempt was
made to feather the number one propeller. But, the propeller would
not feather and the engine continued to turn at excessive RPM. The
captain then decided to cut off the oil supply to the engine.
Eventually, the RPM declined and then the engine seized. However,
the propeller continued to windmill in the air stream, causing
excessive parasite drag, which significantly increased the fuel
consumption. As a result, the plane was forced to fly much slower,
below 150 knots, and lost altitude at the rate of 1,000 feet per
minute. Climb power was then added to the remaining three engines,
in an attempt to slow that rate of descent. However, the number
four engine began to fail, and soon was able to produce only
limited power, ev...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=10225452
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United States |
Release date: |
September 2010 |
First published: |
September 2010 |
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Books Llc
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Books Llc
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Dimensions: |
152 x 229 x 2mm (L x W x T) |
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Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
26 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-158-61835-4 |
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Books
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LSN: |
1-158-61835-2 |
Barcode: |
9781158618354 |
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