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"Roman Svihorik" wrote in message
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Yes, Dave, I saw it on the National Geographic channel a year or so
ago. Personally, I felt impressed - I just could not believe such a
plane can land without engines and total structural damages and
passenger toll... Roman

Just about ANY airplane can be landed safely without
engines, as long as the elevation and glide ratio allow
a long enough glide to reach (and maneuver to) a runway.

All pilots train to make such "dead stick" landings as
a routine part of training, in any type of airplane.

Not including the Osprey, of course, where one of the possibilities put
forward in how to deal with an engine failure was to point a gun at the
pilot's head that would go off in such an eventuality so he wouldn't have
to worry about it.

Bertie




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