Pilot sacked over Boeing 777-300ER fly - Cathay Pacific

[saifawis]

VIDEO SUCKS

[twostrokeornill1]

What's the big deal, has anyone seen the "707 roll" vid ???

[FR3665]

this video should be called and i quote 'my mom got sacked for uploading this video'

[StellarBlue1]

Weather conditions would have to be greatly considered. At that altitude, think what a wind shear or downdraft would do. There is no margin left whatsoever for evasive maneuver. I know that this trick is done all the time and is well within the envelope of operation for this aircraft. Then again, you could barrel roll it, but would you do it with the President of the companies on board? Probably.

[alphabravocharly19]

how long did that vid take to film and how many frames was that!

[miquelooOn]

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[J90JAM]

What the fuck was this filmed on!?

[debeharksen]

omg, what is the model of camera? I give .... to smashed in your empty head sucker...

[kirbyks]

Lame.

[Saaaaaaaaaament]

did you film this with an culculator?

[luilui89]

@Saaaaaaaaaament HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

[lsharpe69]

I'm thinking, "GEAR DOWN (dweep dweep), GEAR DOWN (dweep, dweep), or similar audio response.

[1982FMJ]

the way the company will see it is he will be deemed untrustworthy. He did this unauthorized. I'm guessing anyway. What he did was not considered dangerous apart from the fact he was putting the aircraft in a situation where if both engines were to fail it would be very bad.

[Photobyke]

@1982FMJ

Yeah...and how often do both engines fail at the same time on a modern aircraft?

It would be very bad if both engines failed at any altitude, but turbine engines are so reliable these days that if engines do fail, it is usually due to an outside atmospheric situation, a system error (again, very rare in itself) or pilot error (shutting the wrong engine after a single engine failure or a fuel miscalculation/fuel management error).

[1982FMJ]

Don't speak to soon.

[Photobyke]

@1982FMJ

Sorry, don't get you.

[bigman55434]

@Photobyke "how often do both engines fail at the same time on a modern aircraft"...well, at least once that I can recall - double bird strike put that plane in the Hudson river after it took out both engines.

[WesOrion]

@bigman55434 look at the number of aircraft that are in the air on any given day and any given time. The odds at what happened to that plane was a million to one.

[phillyslasher]

@bigman55434 Those GE's on a 777-300ER are so huge and powerful you could probably chuck a lawnmower into them and nothing would happen lol

[dookiekong007]

@1982FMJ bull crap, did anything happen. NO

[airnmorris]

Nobody was fired!

[XCougar85X]

If you see the real movie of this action, It shows he is well Below!! gear extention speed. Henge why the plane hangs so much on it's tail while no passengers/cargo are in it. This is a quite bad flypast, as he should have used atleast a small degree of flaps.

Cool or not, he deserved to be fired. That plane costs many millions. Then you as a company owner really don't want some young hotshot pilot, that has no display flying experience, do an extremely low flyby.

[dookiekong007]

@XCougar85X did anything happen. NO

[MsAirbus340]

very nice pass !congratulations!!

[USAF300]

what is this? a stop motion? terrible quality

[xoen6]

go-around?

[habbadou]

HORRIBLE.

[kd4pba]

Thats funny, Your going to put the gear down, with the flaps up while flying at high speed yea right, So what they are supposed to do, try to land if there is a problem. I can see that going really well, 250kts+ down the runway. I would love to see this supposed law and its specifics about airspeed. The number of know it all's seem to out number real pilots.

[bammb00]

Doing a low fly-by at the Boeing plant is nothing new. Crews from different airlines do it when they test thier new aircraft right before delivery. In this case, althought the CEO was on board & I believe he approved of the action, it was the HongKong (CHINA) authorities thier FAA equivalent that put pressure on TYLER to fire the pilot because it was never asked nor has given Cathay permission to do such thing. It all boils down to the Chinese govt. letting everbody who runs the show.

[bbender1986]

i see..cus i didn't see anything unusual..fking commies..hate china..

[uthalo876]

Ure a moron. He got fired by CX and Cathay only. PRC had nothing to do with it. Cathay is a private held company. majority shareholder being Swire Pacific. Not the Chinese govt.

[scotplane]

@bammb00 Now he works for Qatar Airways. That would be great if he did the same thing when Qatar get their A380! ^^,

[gnarkillkicksass]

@bammb00 Close - it was Pratt who lost it. And Hong Kong has their own Civil Aviation Department which is separate to Chinas and hires mostly expats (though about to be localised).

[Endurance3952]

Stupid pilot, should have at least had the gear down just in case. I heard he was fired.

[Aberchrixx]

he was beyond gear extension speed... notice he didnt have flaps configured for landing either, flybys are suppose to be fast, thats why they are called fly bys and not flylandings. dumbass

[gcmc2]

YOU'RE the dumbass. Flybys at anything like this low an altitude ARE normally performed gear down. It is illegal to do otherwise in some counties. They effectively replicate an aborted landing with a go-around. Why do you think the Cathay's number one pilot was sacked otherwise ?

[j4cko56]

@Aberchrixx or you can do low speed fly-bys...dumbass...

[glavonjagrob]

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[creap32]

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[glavonjagrob]

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[creap32]

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[glavonjagrob]

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[creap32]

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[kjdavey]

flyby was likely at greater than 200kts which would have exceeded gear down speed. Anyways he would never have had time or room to land if something went wrong.

[Chuckjagermeister]

Gear down speed for many modern airliners is in excess of 200 knots. But below 250.

[uthalo876]

Yeah he is stupid huh? Chief pilot with 25+ years... He knew wtf he was going. Also at his speed the plane would not allow him to gear down.

[gnarkillkicksass]

He wasn't a designated display pilot in the company nor had any display experience in his career. He flew it on parameters meaning full stick back (which doesn't stall it but the flight computer gives max safe nose high attitude) and use thrust to adjust altitude. Which is fine, except that sort of procedure was never intended to use for fly pasts. Who knows what other parameters would've kicked in while he was doing it with people on board. He didn't get any sympathy from his colleagues.

[BlackmoonUK]

Yeah, I remember what happened to that A320 when the fly-by-wire took over and decided the pilot was landing the plane when they were actually doing a low pass. I'm not saying that could happen again, but something unexpected could have happened.