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by Thinker on August 31st, 2008
In 1957, on a flight from Oakland Calif to Honolulu the plane lost two engines after the point of no return (recip. engines) about an hour out of Hawaii we almost lost the third engine. It belched fire, sputtered, rattled and banged but the flight engineer kept it going. They hand cranked the landing gear down and we landed without incident. The date was Friday, November 13th....A plane like the one I was in crashed killing all on board about a month earlier on the same flight. This was a MATS (Miliary Air Transport System) aircraft.
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Thanks, +6...1957; was it a jet or prop?
by Stu B in his fleece-lined COAT on August 31st, 2008
radial recip. piston engines
by Thinker on August 31st, 2008