Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: FW: An Island being formed!!!
I found a snopes article on this very story, in my search for info about "Maiken" and her crew.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/maiken.asp
Sure enough, her bottom paint was well 'sanded' and indeed, dirt and rocks are bad for coolant intake...
From: Jon Conyers <le… [at] hotmail.com>
To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2007 8:37:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: FW: An Island being formed!!!
Volcanoes can be dangerous. (Duh.)
Once upon a time, long, long ago whilst I was assigned to Navy patrol
squadron VP-4 I jumped on a P-3 headed for a Search and Rescue off Pagan
island north of Guam. The pilot, God bless him, saw the huge plume and
decided to stay out of it. Good idea, ingesting fine pumice is thought to
be bad for the continued operation of turboprop jet engines. He decided to
fly kinda under it instead. Well... turns out all the heavy stuff (the kind
that doesn't stay in the plume) was busy falling, right where we went
flying. Things went bump and the FE panel lit up like a Christmas tree.
The flight engineer said swear words I'd never heard before ... and don't
think he even knew until he was inspired as he got busy shutting down
engines. Damn plane only had four.
The pilot did a 'wing over' as we fled the rain of rocks (think of the WW2
films showing dice bombers peeling off to attack). VP-4 crew 3, Chris
Strayve, Bob Martin, and the others got control of the plane and escaped the
rain of rocks and we limped back to NAS Agana on 2 engines. After we landed
we discovered that by all rights one of the engines that continued to run,
should not have been able to operate and we should have had the opportunity
to practice escaping from a ditched aircraft. Not to mention intense
practice at shark wrestling. Whew!
Bottom line: pretty-yes, impressive-certainl y, dangerous-sure can be. For
my money (and life) this type of event is best admired at a distance unless
you are in an armored vessel!
~Jon Conyers
Cal-27 MkIII #115
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