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Best Of The Web: A Great
Save Documented
By
January 23, 2022
The sands of
time have all but buried one of the great aircraft saves of all time: Reeve
Aleutian Flight 8. This week’s Best of the Web video by Mayday: Air Disaster
reprises the accident, which one NTSB investigator described as one of the
greatest feats of airmanship he had ever seen.
Reeve 8 was
a Lockheed Electra flown by famed Reeve Aleutian Airways, which served Alaska
with passenger and freight service for more than 60 years before being
dissolved in 2000. The flight was enroute on June 8, 1983, with 15 passengers
from Cold Bay in the Aleutians to Seattle. Shortly after takeoff, the number 4
propeller departed the airplane and sliced through part of the wing and the
belly, causing an explosive decompression that severely inhibited aircraft
control.
Although the
errant prop didn’t cut control cables, the decompression caused the floor to
collapse, impinging elevator and aileron control. Worse, the engines remained
at full power and the pilots had no means of modulating thrust short of
shutting down engines. After ruling out a return to Cold Bay, they flew to
Anchorage to land on the longest runway available in the region.
The video
details the airmanship of Captain James Gibson, his first officer Gary Linter
and flight engineer Gerald Laurin. After one approach ended in a
go-around, the pilots put the airplane down safely in Anchorage, with no
injuries. The NTSB never determined why the prop failed, although the Electra
had a history of such mishaps. And early in its production history, the model’s
reputation was tarnished by a design process that failed to account for whirl
mode flutter. Two Electras were lost before it was corrected.
Although
seriously damaged, the airplane was repaired and re-registered in Canada, where
it is believed to be still in use by Air Spray as a firefighting aircraft. As
detailed in this video by Alex Praglowski, Air Spray is among a
handful of operators still flying the Electra.
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