C-17 lands at wrong airport 
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Added: Jul-20-2012 Occurred On: Jul-20-2012
By: glorydays31
In: Other News, WTF
Tags: C-17, Globemaster, lands, wrong, airport, oops
Location: Florida, United States (load item map)
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Views: 110899 | Comments: 621 | Votes: 18 | Favorites: 22 | Shared: 7479 | Updates: 1 | Times used in channels: 3
By: glorydays31
In: Other News, WTF
Tags: C-17, Globemaster, lands, wrong, airport, oops
Location: Florida, United States (load item map)
Marked as: approved, featured
Views: 110899 | Comments: 621 | Votes: 18 | Favorites: 22 | Shared: 7479 | Updates: 1 | Times used in channels: 3
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It's so simple to stop on that size airfield, manual says the following.
1 stomp on brakes
2 reef the handbrake to the 'far up position'
3 open all windows
4 engage 'fuck me' reverse thrusters
5 cup hands outside windows
6 downshift to 1st
7 after completing stop high five copilot with fuck yeah
8 exit aircraft at small airfield and display your huge brass balls to jaw dropped locals
Posted Jul-22-2012 Bytonesrep (33.14) 
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@tonesrep 9 quietly go change your underwear
Posted Jul-22-2012 Bymorelman2 (737.72) 
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@tonesrep You read the manual didn't you?
Posted Jul-22-2012 ByFrankenstein120 (144.00) 
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@morelman2 No underwear mate, free ball all the way. Less sweat too.
Posted Jul-22-2012 Bytonesrep (33.14) 
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@Frankenstein120 Well glanced really, it's hard to read the manual with all the cigar smoke in the cockpit.
Posted Jul-22-2012 Bytonesrep (33.14) 
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@tonesrep The only way to fly!
Posted Jul-22-2012 ByFrankenstein120 (144.00) 
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Thrust reverse like a MOFO.
Posted Jul-20-2012 ByNothingisfree (350.70) 
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@Nothingisfree:
Hell yeah dude, they were loud as shit, too!
Posted Jul-20-2012 ByThisWasA_Bad_Idea (96.70) ThisWasA_Bad_Idea View Channel Send Message
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http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/19075531/2012/07/20/giant-military-cargo-plane-lands-at-small-airport
Posted Jul-20-2012 Byglorydays31 (824.62) 
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@glorydays31 Just found it taking off from the same airport later that day, the girl is almost blown off by the wake turbulence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29NOFfT75AE
Posted Jul-21-2012 Bycopilot1111111 (785.30) copilot1111111 View Channel Send Message
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@copilot1111111 Awesome! Thank you.
Posted Jul-24-2012 Byglorydays31 (824.62) 
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"How in the hell did he stop on that?"
It's a C-17, that's how.
"The C-17 currently holds over 20 world-class airlift records, including payload to altitude time-to-climb, and the Short TakeOff and Landing (STOL) mark in which the C-17 took off in less than 1,400 feet (427m), carried a payload of 44,000 pounds (19,958kg) to altitude, and landed in less than 1,400 feet (427m)." http://www.theaviationzone.com/factsheets/c17.asp
This runway is over 3500 feet long.
Why he la More..
Posted Jul-21-2012 Byforqalso (189.94) 
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The C-17 can land and take off on very short runways (been there,done that). I doubt the pilot,co-pilot, onboard computer and their command base all made the mistake for him to land there.
Posted Jul-20-2012 Byfurious1 (415.22) 
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Just 4 miles further to the AF base, either a very bad mistake or a very immediate emergency. Let's wait for the official statement, that's gonna be interesting.
Posted Jul-21-2012 Byblacklama (365.16) 
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The plane bound for MacDill Air Force Base on the southern tip of Tampa accidently landed at the tiny Peter O. Knight Airport in the middle of homes on Davis Islands.
Peter O. Knight is approximately four miles north of MacDill but significantly smaller in size.
Witnesses and nearby homeowners near the airport, when the plane landed, say they could hardly believe their eyes and feared the aircraft may crash through the end of the small runway and end up in Tampa Bay.
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Posted Jul-21-2012 Bymrbottle (52.48) 
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@mrbottle Oh shit. Someone fucked up big time. While it is true the pilot had some skills when he landed it on that short runway. It is still more than likely cause the loss of his flight status. Grounded pilots are such sad people.....
Posted Jul-21-2012 BySkinnydaddy (648.58) Skinnydaddy View Channel Send Message
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@mrbottle
If the runways have the same number, maybe they need to paint some kind of additional tag on one of them to make it easier for pilots to tell them apart.
Posted Jul-21-2012 ByVulturedoors (455.98) Vulturedoors View Channel Send Message
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It's so simple to stop on that size airfield, manual says the following.
1 stomp on brakes
2 reef the handbrake to the 'far up position'
3 open all windows
4 engage 'fuck me' reverse thrusters
5 cup hands outside windows
6 downshift to 1st
7 after completing stop high five copilot with fuck yeah
8 exit aircraft at small airfield and display your huge brass balls to jaw dropped locals
Posted Jul-21-2012 Bytonesrep (33.14) 
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9 Press 'Y' to play again
Posted Jul-21-2012 Byrigotrash2 (62.60) 
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@rigotrash2 After picking up a couple of Local
girls of course!
Posted Jul-22-2012 Bytonesrep (33.14) 
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Chill the fuck out everyone. C-17's are equipped with reverse thrusters which make short landings like this one possible. Also, landing against high winds, an airplane can land much shorter than on a calm day. Listen to the wind in the cell mic.
Posted Jul-21-2012 Byjrusso7660 (9.60) 
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@jrusso7660 Reverse thrust is nothing new?? All commercial airliners have them.
Posted Jul-21-2012 ByTeabag (165.80) Teabag View Channel Send Message
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@Teabag
yea the fact that it has reverse thrusters doesn't mean anything. But the plane is generally overpowered so the reverse is overpowered as well.
Posted Jul-21-2012 BySte_0 (179.48) 
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@Teabag
Yeah, but the engines on the C-17 are fully reversible. Not just partly.
Posted Jul-21-2012 ByVulturedoors (455.98) Vulturedoors View Channel Send Message
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@Americanalltheway:
Yeah, I just read up on it... very interesting.
Posted Jul-20-2012 ByThisWasA_Bad_Idea (96.70) ThisWasA_Bad_Idea View Channel Send Message
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I dunno, once I meant to go to Autozone and accidently went to Pepboys, that shit just happens
Posted Jul-21-2012 Bydetroitr (59.50) detroitr View Channel Send Message
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Here's the story if no one had yet posted it
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/air-force-c-17-globemaster-iii-makes-surprise-landing-at-peter-o-knight/1241349
Cheers
Posted Jul-21-2012 BytihZ_Ho (406.72) 
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@tihZ_Ho Thanks for the link!! Terima kasih
Posted Jul-21-2012 Byp8urbyk5 (590.84) 
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@p8urbyk5 kembali ;)
Posted Jul-21-2012 BytihZ_Ho (406.72) 
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@RugOutFromUnderYou
Its the same as holding a door open for someone behind you. Of course they can open the door themselves but its nice to do, and nicer if they appreciate it.
Yes?
Posted Jul-21-2012 BytihZ_Ho (406.72) 
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Here is video of it taking off with a different crew later that day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHfhVfSn-K0
Posted Jul-21-2012 ByBLACKMONGOOSE (30.14) BLACKMONGOOSE View Channel Send Message
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This plane is designed to land
and take off from short landing strips...
Posted Jul-23-2012 ByRamarxis (197.14) 
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Big dark plane on a runway intended for small white planes. That runway will never be the same. Well, as they say, once you go C-17, you never go back to Cessna.
Posted Jul-21-2012 Byeyewitness (13.30) eyewitness View Channel Send Message
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These planes were specifically designed and built for SHORT takeoff and landing in war zones.
The C-17 can even land on dirt runways.
There was never any safety problem. It's just the media trying to make something out of nothing.
But the pilot landing at the wrong airport is a mistake which I think will effect his career.
Posted Jul-21-2012 ByOswald2001 (789.76) Oswald2001 View Channel Send Message
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@Oswald2001 What, you think?
Posted Jul-21-2012 ByFifteen Foot Kitten (274.10) 
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@Armsdealer
Wow! That must be a sight to see.
They really are magnificent aircraft.
Very capable.
Posted Jul-21-2012 ByOswald2001 (789.76) Oswald2001 View Channel Send Message
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