How many more incidents in two days can we have?

BCLIFTON Baja Blast is the shit!!!

In two days we had a Mooney do three touch in go's on the same runway and bend his prop. Delta run off the runway and Allegiant have an engine blow up after take off. No major injuries either... What will happen next...

GLF5 Senior Member

Percentages are on your side. Nothing for a while.

Roddy_Piper Resident Knucklehead Vegas baby

they come in 3's. we should be good until December. sleep easy for it's all smooth sailing until after the holidays. [/sarcasm]

noid Curtis E. Carr Jawja

Kinda on this topic, I think I set an FAA record from time of certification to first aircraft accident.

I got certified, took a break, came back up and got on position. Within 5 minutes, talking to my very first plane, the nose gear collapsed and the aircraft slid down the runway and stopped at the intersection of both runways, closing the airport for a couple of hours.

whegner Junior Member

Reminds me of my first day in ATC. I just checked into MCAS Iwakuni, got assigned to a crew and while the watch supervisor was walking me around the cab, introducing me to guys, an A-7 had a hook skip and on rotation to go around at 100% military power snagged the M1 chain gear at the end of the runway (for those that don't know, it is the same as what large ships use for their anchors). The chain literally disintegrated into about a hundred 3-4 link chunks. One chunk tore the wing off a parked C-130, another went wizzing by the tower cab (we all ducked...would not have mattered LOL), another ended up destroying a car out in the 'ville. Meanwhile the A-7 pancaked, and scooted off the end of the runway into a garbage dump. No one was hurt but made for an interesting day.

BCLIFTON Baja Blast is the shit!!!

Wow... that really sucks....

CLEATCT2010 Senior Member Ohio

Well the A-7 parked it right where it needed to go... the dump. I'm sure the plane was done after that.

whegner Junior Member

Yeah, it was done and sat in the dump for about a month...two years later a C141 ended up in there after a wind shear incident as well.

The toughest part was that it took crash crew about 10 minutes to extract the pilot because he wouldn't let go of the cockpit handrails.

auxxiliary Senior Member Anchorage, Alaska

It sounds like a Unlucky streak?