A plain flying over the Amazon jungle on a humanitarian mission was shot at from below and they lost control. Onboard was the pilot, co-pilot, one man who was considered to be the smartest man in the world, a rabbi and a priest. The pilot comes out of his cabin with parachutes. "We can't land so we got to bail out. I only have four chutes and I'm taking one" He jumps out. The co-pilot says "This ones got my name on it" He jumps out. The smartest man in the world says "I can't die, I have to many things to think about" He jumps out. The rabbi says to the priest "We only got one chute left, you take it" The priest says "Don't worry about it, the smartest man in the world jumped out with my backpack" :biggrin:
Reminds me of a similar situation. Climbing to altitude in a DC-3 with 40 other skydivers at a jump meet in St.Louis, Mo a few years back. At 5000ft a very noticeable drop in rpm and the 20 odd people in the rear closest to the door start to get ready to jump. I and the other jumpers closest to the cockpit look around and wonder what is going on as jump altitude is 12000ft. After a few moments rpm returns to normal and everyone relaxes. Suddenly one of the jumpers yells the left engine is on fire and the 20 odd jumpers who where ready make a speedy exit. While the rest of us prepare to exit we look at the engine and see it has only blown a jug and it is not on fire but just losing all its oil. When rpm's dropped off the pilot just increased power and didn't look to see why. The pilot said don't worry he can make it back to the airport. This guy is a complete idiot. Are we going back to the airport in a crippled aircraft or using perfectly good parachutes. We flipped him the bird and made a hasty exit. Dave USPA D licensed parachutist-tandem instructor-FAA licensed parachute rigger now retired. :yahoo:
Wow Dave, That's quite an accomplishment and I find it funny that the smartest guy in the world would
yell "fire" in a crowded plane. :biggrin:
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I was in a jet once leaving orlando, florida. One of the engines died. The pilot said over the intercom that they were going to try restarting
and if he could not, we were going to have to land in tampa and get another plane. He could not restart and we landed in tampa.
When we finally came to a stop, everybody was running. They weren't as much running from the plane as they were running to the bar.
A little freaky.
Hey Dave,
Didn't know there were more like myself here on the board amongst the whuffo's.
CSPA C-1869, Instructor, Rigger A & Video.
Bet we could trade some stories.
Blue Skies
Kevin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRJpRu2RsSs