When Experimenting In A Damaged Plane Turns Fatal | Air Transport International 782

Donations are never expected but appreciated: paypal.me/miniaircrash Join My Discord:   / discord   Images Public Domain DC8 Image: Public Domain This is the story of Air Transport International flight 782. On the 16th of february 1995 a air international flight 782 was to fly from kansas city international airport to toledo ohio. Before the plane even got off the ground the pilots were having a bit of trouble at kansas city international airport. The cargo dc 8 was fueled and filled with cargo but the pilots couldn't get the engine number one to start. A quick diagnosis revelaed that the gearbox drive of engine number one had failed and they had no way of fixing the problem at kansas. With that the flight to toledo was cancelled. There was no way that the plane could make the trip in this state. But the problem was complex enough that they couldnt fix the problem at kansas. So the decision was taken to ferry the plane to the westover metropolitan airport in massachusetts. With one DC8 out of commission the company flew in a replacement form dover delaware. The flight crew from dover would be the ones ferrying the plane to westover. Theyd have their work cut out for them theyd have to takeoff fly and land this DC8 all without an operational engine. Now you might be surprised to find that out but broken planes are flown around all the time. For example, i once made a video about emirates flight 408, the plane had sustained some serious damage in australia and it was flown to france to be fixed. When flights like these are undertaken it is done so very carefully after considering all aspects of the flight. That was the case here. By 5:39 p the replacement dc8 had arrived and so had the pilots. The captain decided to take on about 30,000 pounds of fuel as ballast and they prepped for taking off with just 3 engines. By 8:04 pm three of the four engines were operational with the left most enigne being the one out of commission. As the crew taxied to runway 01L they let the tower know that they only had 3 engines. The crew was very concerned with the winds and made preparations to takeoff. They really wanted to use runway 19R but that was out of the question because of inbound traffic. In the cockpit they went over the three engine departure procedure one more time. The plan was to line up on the runway and then set enignes 2 and three to max power, those are the two inboard engines. Then as the plane accelerated theyd bring engine four in slowly. By the VMCG or the minimum control speed on the ground theyd have engine four at max power as well. By 8:19 the dc8 was at runway 01R for takeoff they staretd the takeoff run but the crew sensed something wrong and they decided to reject the takeoff. The controller enquired if they needed assistance, but they didnt, they just wanted to line up again and try once more. As it turned out they hit max power on engine number 4 way too soon at about 100 knots instead of 107 knots. The pilots discussed what had happed they were slowly bringing in engine number 4 when the power suddenly jumped from 1.6 EPR to 1.9 EPR, that jump really caught them off guard and that's why they hit 107 knots so soon.