NoSG0 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 (edited) Do not know if this was posted already. Sorry if so. https://imgur.com/gallery/MqxgMId From the comments: 1) It is a BA-146? 2 And good thing the pilot followed the terrain rather than keep wings level Glad that they made it. I am missing a seat cushion and I wasn't even on the plane. Edited August 14, 2019 by NoSG0 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 That was as close as it gets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fewr9fkr9595 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 Damn, if the wheels were down it would have landed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truro Model Builder Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Definitely a brown trousers moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelh Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 It certainly kicked up the dust. Classic target fixation killed more than a few attack pilots. It's either a Bae146 or one of the later RJ upgrades. As the RJ has more power that might have made the difference in clearing that ridge. My brother an Engineer who worked on 146s for years said it powered by four APUs rather than engines. He did not have a high opinion of the type. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fubar57 Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Very cool. I had the Martin Mars fly low and slow over me while I was fighting a forest fire on the west coast in 1983 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troffa Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 That is a chilling piece of video-a matter of feet. climb to safe altitude and straight home to base one would think. Imagine the poor Engineer who released the aircraft to service- the stress he would have been under if it had gone in. Gives me the heeby-jeebies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skodadriver Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 5 hours ago, noelh said: ..... My brother an Engineer who worked on 146s for years said it powered by four APUs rather than engines. He did not have a high opinion of the type. And yet it has an excellent safety record, certainly no worse than any other comparable aircraft. With the exception of China Northwest Flight 2119 and possibly Atlantic Airways Flight 670 I don't remember any fatal crash involving the BAe 146/Avro RJ which was attributable to a failure of the aircraft itself. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelh Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Indeed it does. But he worked on it daily for some years. Mechs like him always have a particular view of the birds they work on. Safe it might have been but popular it was not although the pilots like it. I'm a pilot my brother is an aircraft Engineer, imagine the fun debates we have. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedy Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Riot Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 Almost as good as a Buccaneer! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent K Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 On 8/17/2019 at 2:11 PM, noelh said: It certainly kicked up the dust. Classic target fixation killed more than a few attack pilots. It's either a Bae146 or one of the later RJ upgrades. As the RJ has more power that might have made the difference in clearing that ridge. My brother an Engineer who worked on 146s for years said it powered by four APUs rather than engines. He did not have a high opinion of the type. My brother was on the design team, I flew on them a lot. I think it was a good, solid and robust classic British design (like the 1-11 etc.) which has a very good safety record. The engines, I guess were fit for purpose, not highly powered but it had 4 which gave a good safety margin, and are from the same family as the Chinook engines. Enjoyed flying it with uninterrupted views of the land below due to the high wing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coors54 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 The 146 family - 4 oil leaks separated by an electrical fault. 😂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob G Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 I flew on 146s a few times. Not bad at all, IMO, and I do love their looks. Which is why I'm attempting to corner the worlds supply of the Revell kits, apparently (it's 'one of those kits' for me - you know, the ones that you'll buy every time you see them, even though you already have nearly as many kits of the type as were actually made. Or is that just me?) That video linked above- I hope that the crew were wearing their brown uniforms trousers... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufdriver Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 10 hours ago, Coors54 said: The 146 family - 4 oil leaks separated by an electrical fault. 😂 Or 5 APUs in close formation 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsbody Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Definitely a high pucker factor moment. Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 (edited) My thought upon seeing this was "I bet that provoked some discussion in the cockpit" assuming a two person crew of course. Steve. Edited August 25, 2019 by stevehnz spelling :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSG0 Posted August 24, 2019 Author Share Posted August 24, 2019 This was posted over on PPRUNE https://www.safecom.gov/searchone_new.asp?ID=23587 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigsty Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 On 8/19/2019 at 7:47 AM, Agent K said: Enjoyed flying it with uninterrupted views of the land below due to the high wing. I thought that until I started flying in Dash-8s and got a brilliant view of the engine and about four square feet of the rest of the world. Every bliddy seat was the same! How did they manage that? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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