Moray and I were up at 4500 feet in the ATR 42. The weather was playing silly buggers but despite this the flight had been uneventful. THen we noticed that the aircraft had developed an alarming tendency to bank to the right. As we fouight to control this using the yaw and bank dampers the aircraft became almost uncontrolable. With both of us now working the aircraft, we struggled to maintain height and heding but to no avail. Incredibly it had also started to snow and we were experiencing severe windsheer conditions. Moray came on with more bad news. "We're loosing the left engine.". "i'm shutting it down". Now we were in big trouble. The aircraft waas completely unresponsive and my wrists were hurting with the amount of force I had to input into the controls. "Shit" Moray shouted, I've shut down the wrong engine. Restart, restart I yelled but it was too late. Out of the cloudbase the Clark international appeared but it was hopeless. I tried to extend our glide but the aircraft simply didnt have enough energy. The stall came around 100 knots and the aircraft began to much in. As we dropped the last 200 feet to a certain death, I heard screams from back in the cabin. We ploughed in wrecking the aircraft and breaking legs, ribs and causing severe internal injuries to all on board. Those who were still conscious heard the ominous trickle of fuel and then the hiss at it boiled off hot engine components. The ensuing fireball engulfed the aircraft and all souls on board. There were no surv
ivors. "Right" came a voice from behing me. " My beer alarm has gone off".
Went down to Omni for a few days with the lads. ********** is a good bloke I met a while ago. Even better, he is head of training at *******Aviation. That means that the lads get to play with all the toys free of charge. Damm good deal.
**** is a good lad and he assures us that we can use the facilities whenever we are down in the pines...great.
Damm shame about that One to Go crash in Phukets and Alistair Macrae however.
Cheers,
Mark
ivors. "Right" came a voice from behing me. " My beer alarm has gone off".