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TU-154 not doing so good.

My god, that's 4.5 minutes of absolute terror/torture for that crew & pax. Great procedures & stick work by the pilot to get that POS on the ground safely, as it seemed on the edge of a stall for almost the entire video. I once ('96) had to take an Aeroflot TU-154 from Moscow to Irkutsk, then on to Chita. At the time I didn't realize how lucky I was. FWIW, in Irkutsk they were much less security-minded that they were in Moscow. I was able to get close to some Migs & Backfires parked there. No american [naval or otherwise] aviator would ever be caught signing off on one of those POS. The workmanship (just looking at the skin of the a/c) was beyond terrible.
 
Another site said it was a first test flight after sitting on the ground for 10 years.
 
Fog said:
.... No american [naval or otherwise] aviator would ever be caught signing off on one of those POS....
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Funny how you reference that Soviet-era version of the B-727 "3-holer" as being a "POS".

Many years ago we bumped into some Rooskie Aeroflot pilots @ Darwin's Theory while on a layover in Anchorage ...

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Much drinking had ensued when one of their pilots (very proud of his American idiom), sweating beer, stood up and loudly announced: "Our airplane ??? How do we like it ?? It is ... how you say ... a piece of shit"!! :)

Laughter followed ... glasses clinking ... refills all around ... and more of the same questionable layover behavior continued. If necessary, we could 'crawl' back to our hotel (pictured in the background). :)
 
Fog said:
I once ('96) had to take an Aeroflot TU-154 from Moscow to Irkutsk, then on to Chita.
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My Grandfather and Grandmother flew on an Aeroflot one circa 92 somewhere in a Bodo Norway to Moscow to St Petersburg trip. My Grandfather, with 27,000+ hours flying 727's for Eastern said it was the most scared he had ever been on a commercial aircraft.
 
I haven't figured out how it didn't depart controlled flight (if that's what you want to call what it was doing to begin with).
 
Kinda looked like that guy that does the drunk pilot airshow act in his piper cub......but much bigger. Didn't look like that was going to end well when it disappeared below the treeline....
 
A4sForever said:
Funny how you reference that Soviet-era version of the B-727 "3-holer" as being a "POS".

Many years ago we bumped into some Rooskie Aeroflot pilots @ Darwin's Theory while on a layover in Anchorage ...

stheoryanc.jpg

​

Much drinking had ensued when one of their pilots (very proud of his American idiom), sweating beer, stood up and loudly announced: "Our airplane ??? How do we like it ?? It is ... how you say ... a piece of shit"!! :)

Laughter followed ... glasses clinking ... refills all around ... and more of the same questionable layover behavior continued. If necessary, we could 'crawl' back to our hotel (pictured in the background). :)
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Ah yes, and Darwin's Theory is still going strong! Though i tend not to like a lot fo the clientele, i'm more a Humpy's fan.

Funny story though!
 
I am going to take a guess and say that it was caused by a rudder hard-over/stuck hydraulic actuator? Which could explain the divergent yawing associated with power decease/increase to maintain a proper rate of descent. Because it wasn't too bad on the downwind once power was steady-state. Good job by the crew to get that thing on the ground!
 
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