Share your failures!

[Peder]

I wanted to take my 737-400 to bagdad in Iraq..
Everything was fine undtil 5 miles from the airport then the plane was **** by small arms fire several times..
First the right engine started burning, then the cabin presure failed though its not a problem during landing.
Next the flaps took damage and could not be extended.. Since I knew I had to make a fast landing due to risk of gunfire I tried to come in
fast for the landing... But then the big problem happened... Loss of hydraulic.. After that failure nothing was working, and the gear could
not be lowered in time..
So flaps gone, gear up, and no hydraulic.. Still on glide slope to the runway...
Next left engine cought fire... so basicly I had no choise other than to make a dead stick landing..
Fortunatly I could glide to the runway and touch down... VERY VERY hard..
But I survived the emergency crash landing... and slided my 737 down the runway.

So what did I learn from this... Never go to Bagdad.

The plane was so badly damaged that I simply sold it, it would never become a plane again.

[JetBlueInflight]

ehunyadi wrote:
My one and only failure (so far) has been a failure of the gear to retract upon takeoff.



Since this was a VERY short hop (54NM), I decided to press onward to burn off the excess fuel (we took off at MTOW) and land at our
destination. The
funny part was that we made it in on time, albeit with the fanfare of a light and sound show (of fire engines following us) as we landed.

I got the best score of my career because apparently I'd handled it correctly. The funny part was that this was my third flight with FSP. I've
got
nearly 50 flights in now and am a C4 and have yet to have anything else happen (but I know it's lurking, so I'm always vigilant).

I've been on flights with stuck gear and even a decompression with nothing really else left to do but to continue on (they were both short
haul flights) With the decompression, we had enough fuel onboard to go from KJFK to KBOS at 10,000' so we did. Nothing wrong with
that!! Good job at calling the shots. I'm sure your pax were a lot happier you didn't go back!!!