Thread: Air Nuigini goes for a swim

stewardess, can I have some water please?

Originally Posted by Eevo

stewardess, can I have some water please?

"No you can't, I'm saving it for the other passengers".

"What, the whole fuselage full?"

"Yes, drinking seawater can give one a hell of a thirst"

I blame the Flight Crew chewing Betel Nut

Memories of an RAAF P-3C Orion doing something similar in the Indian Ocean a few years ago. JD would remember that I'm sure.

ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed P-3C Orion A9-754 Cocos Islands Airport (CCK)

Originally Posted by 4bee

"No you can't, I'm saving it for the other passengers".

"What, the whole fuselage full?"

"Yes, drinking seawater can give one a hell of a thirst"

I blame the Flight Crew chewing Betel Nut

Memories of an RAAF P-3C Orion doing something similar in the Indian Ocean a few years ago. JD would remember that I'm sure.

ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed P-3C Orion A9-754 Cocos Islands Airport (CCK)

The P3 suffered structural failure when the pilot was doing a high G beatup of the strip after departure - there are still bits of it on Cocos.

It was shedding bits of the wings while he tried to get it back to the strip - all but one walked away - says something about the basic strength of a P3.

As for the buai - I remember the civi pass briefing includes "no chewing buai in the toilet". Could it cause a pilot to not touch down until the last third of the runway? Quite possibly, but most users would want to avoid the red dribbles on their white shirt I think.

And it’s not the first time either. I remember one of their F28s doing the same at Madang many years ago.

cheers

Steve

Key points:

• Air Niugini landed in the ocean off the island of Weno.

Is it still a 'Landing' even when it's in the drink, one ponders?

Originally Posted by 4bee

Key points:

• Air Niugini landed in the ocean off the island of Weno.

Is it still a 'Landing' even when it's in the drink, one ponders?

any landing you walk away from is a good landing.
any landing where you can reuse the plane is a great landing!

I don't think anyone walked away from that landing. Swam, or paddled, or boated or even canoed - but not walked!

And I somehow doubt whether the aircraft is reusable - recovering it from there is going to be very expensive and won't happen rapidly, and by that time it will have spent so much time in seawater that the hull will be permanently unserviceable. It just might become a landmark, unless the scrap value is greater than the cost of recovery - not a lot of heavy lift shallow water barges round there I suspect.

At least we know 737s will float.