An "Emergency Descent" is a procedure where a pilot returns his aircraft to earth as quick as possible using gravity, drag, and structural limits, due to an immediate emergency such as fire or overwhelming smoke (or Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs is about to start). Some aircraft have published procedures for the emergency descent, and some don't. Just because there isn't a published procedure for an emergency descent doesn't relieve the pilot of having a procedure for getting his aircraft to earth in a very timely manner, although having done much training of other pilots in the past, and asking them to demonstrate an emergency descent, it amazed me at the number of "blank stares" I received. Anyways, the military obviously has procedures for "Emergency Descents", and they practise them often. Today we will see an aircraft, which I believe is an Aeritalia G.222 perform an emergency descent, followed by a landing where the pilot wheel-barrows on the nose-wheel, stressing it to the point of failure.
VIDEO - Transport "Nose-Wheel" Collapse!
from www.AircraftJunkie.com
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