It was my first fly

• Author: admin
• Filed under: experience
• Date: Jul 4,2008

Very  exciting , very  crazy, also with  a  low  bit   afriad,  E-PO(my instructor`s name, i am  not  sure whether spell like  this  ,by reason of his French  name) gave me  a  lot  of  confidence, he  said   i  could  do  that  ,gave me  a piece  of words –you  control for taxing  ,  the  aircraft  went  around  the  circle. haha ,this  my  first  control, by the way,i took  the  check  list by  myself, and  then ,took  off, at a short time ,i  felt nothing  specially , but only  blue  sky  in  the  sight, E-PO show me some  movements just like   turning  ,straight-and-level flight ,climbing ,descending and so on, i konw  i must do  these things   by myself  a  few  days later. all  the  procedures  went on  about  1 hour, when i got  back  home  about  six  o`clock, this  evening  it  is  my turn for cooking, i  am  not  a  good  cook, but  i must be a  eligible pilot. i  will  fly  next two days, today  when  my  instructor  write  down  my  first  fly  time  on  my  log  book, i  know   my  pilot  life  is  coming, i  also need  more practice, after  250  hours  fly, i will go  home

The Safety Office of the East China Administration of CAAC

• Author: admin
• Filed under: Aircraft
• Date: Jul 4,2008

On September 10, 1998, at 23:07 local time, a MD-11, operated as China Eastern Airlines flight MU 586, made an emergency landing at Shanghai, China. The airplane was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Shanghai to Beijing. Shortly after takeoff the flightcrew reported that the nose landing gear did not retract properly. They tried to cycle the gear but could not get a safe indication in either the extended or retracted position. After flying around for about 3 1/2 hours, they returned to the Shanghai airport where they made several “firm landings” on the main landing gear to try to free the nose landing gear. After this proved to be unsuccessful, they landed the airplane with the nose gear retracted. The airplane was significantly damaged and 6 passengers and 3 flight attendants out of the 120 passengers and 18 crewmembers suffered minor injuries during the emergency evacuation after the aircraft came to rest.
The investigation is being conducted by the Safety Office of the East China Administration of the CAAC of the government of People’s Republic of China. Read the rest of this entry »