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What if a less skilled captain had been at the controls of that jumbo jet, struggling under emergency conditions that no pilot had ever faced? Or if an off-duty airline pilot, who happened to be on board, had not rushed to the cockpit to assist him? Or if the 181-ft.-long aircraft had ripped apart in even a slightly different way? Or if that Sioux City cornfield had been drought baked and hard instead of rain soaked and soft...
...cockpit, however, Haynes was describing a far more dangerous situation to regional air-traffic controllers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. One minute after the explosion, he radioed that his craft had developed "complete hydraulic failure." That meant the crew could no longer control the rudder, elevators, wing flaps and ailerons that steer the jet. Too massive to be manually manipulated, these control surfaces are normally powered by fluid pumped by pressure from the jet engines through a series of stainless-steel tubes that snake throughout the aircraft. Since each of the plane's three redundant hydraulic systems is powered...
...three members of the cockpit crew survived the crash, but Greco said the first-class section was devastated. Passengers in rows nine through 19 suffered only minor injuries, he added, but "there was nothing left of the rear half of the aircraft...
...unusual gift that Abu Said gave him -- a sword that once belonged to the Palestinian's father. "Have you ever tried to take a sword through security in the Middle East?" Le Carre asks with a chuckle. After much negotiation, the pilot agreed to carry the sword in the cockpit. It now rests in the novelist's workroom -- a reminder of affection from one of Le Carre's People...
Another common problem can develop when passengers lock themselves in the restroom and refuse to come out. When this happens, the passenger is usually a small child who wants attention. You should cajole the child out by offering him candy or a trip to the cockpit. If this fails, threaten to force-feed him six bags of complimentary peanuts...