Caps: "The High and the Mighty"(part 3)

[beaky]

The controllers at SF wait anxiously:





The wind has shifted in their favor as they make landfall, but now the hills around the city are looming- they don't dare waste fuel climbing, and the navigator anxiously watches the radar altimeter, calling out the clearance as they scrape over the hills in dark IMC.






"Turn the runway lights up all the way!" (Duh.)





Engine #4 sputters and dies; they feather it...





....and just then the runway appears out of the gloom.








The media vultures will not have much to report tonight: just some tired passengers and a crew who pulled together and just did their job.








The crew and the operations mgr. examine the damage...the ops. mgr. tells the captain to come see him in the morning; he also tells the FO he wants to have a chat with him later. Looks like there may soon be a shake-up in the chain of command...







Everyone goes home to their families, except the lonesome FO, who nonetheless seems a little happier as he wanders off:
"Good night, you ancient pelican!" the ops mgr. says quietly as he walks away.



The End

[beefhole]

Thanks for sharing Rotty (just landed at SFO today myself)

[BFMF]

Cool little series Rotty, I'm gonna have to rent that movie one of these days

[beaky]

Cool little series Rotty, I'm gonna have to rent that movie one of these days

You'll like it, even though now you know what happens...

[ctjoyce]

Ha, I just got done watching that on AMC. At first I couldn't remember where I had seen the movie, then I realised "Ahh yes the good ole V"

Cheers
Cameron

[Airshow_lover]

this is my favorite scene

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[SkyNoz]

this is my favorite scene

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lol...sooo unreal oh well, just a aviation comedy flic right? cool , thnx for sharing this rotty always like a great chuckle.

[beaky]

this is my favorite scene

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LOL! "Get ahold of yerself, yuh yellah- *smak*"

[beaky]

lol...sooo unreal oh well, just a aviation comedy flic right? cool , thnx for sharing this rotty always like a great chuckle.

It' s actually a great drama. If you think nobody's ever slapped some sense into a fellow crew member in flight, I'll bet you're wrong. But it it funny, and probably the fantasy of many a copilot.


The rest of it is perhaps less farfetched; pretty accurate, technically.

[Joe_D]

It' s actually a great drama. If you think nobody's ever slapped some sense into a fellow crew member in flight, I'll bet you're wrong. But it it funny, and probably the fantasy of many a copilot.


The rest of it is perhaps less farfetched; pretty accurate, technically.

Perhaps.....

I'm a bit confused on on point however.
What airport are they refering to when  they are afraid they will crash in the ceneter of "market street"on final if they don't maintain altitude?

Even in the '50s, I don't know of any airport where market street would be would be in the glide path for final to any SF runway when aproaching from the west.

Can someone enilghten me on this?

[beaky]

Perhaps.....

I'm a bit confused on on point however.
What airport are they refering to when  they are afraid they will crash in the ceneter of "market street"on final if they don't maintain altitude?

Even in the '50s, I don't know of any airport where market street would be would be in the glide path for final to any SF runway when aproaching from the west.

Can someone enilghten me on this?

I think it was just hyperbole, or the aviation consultant was on lunch when that line was commited to film. It'd be like mentioning Broadway if the airport was JFK... somebody probably though it would sound "authentic". Or maybe the airport layout was very different then... or... perhaps he was referring to what might happen if they tried to go around on a missed approach, on fumes, with only two engines running.  My knowledge of San Fransisco is pretty poor, so I can't really say...