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How Some Salt Almost Crashed A Plane | One Minute From Crashing

Donations are never expected but appreciated: paypal.me/miniaircrash Join My Discord:   / discord   Image Credits: NOAA NTSB https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Us... This is the story of NOAA42 a P3 orion. Storms are scary, most people run from them. If there's an airport in the vicinity of a storm's path there's no doubt that it will be shut till the storm passes. If youre in the air pilots avoid storms and will do anything to stay out of the path of one. That's what wed do . But there's a group of people dont fly away from storms and hurricanes, they fly towards them. Im talking about hurricane hunters. In the US theyre a part of NOAA or the National oceanic and atmospheric administration. NOAA has highly modified planes that are designed to fly into storms and hurricanes to collect valuable data about them, this helps NOAA accurately predict a storm's path and its intensity. In this fleet it has a modified P3 orion packed to the gills with scientific instruments to poke and probe a hurricane. On the 9th of february 2007 NOAA42 was to take off from st johns. The mission was to investigate a low pressure weather system in the atlantic. This was routine for the crew. They had done the same thing the night before and today they were back for more after a day of rest. They'd need a lot of rest after flights like these, they planned to spend 7-8 hours in the air studying the system and gathering data. By 2:53 Pm local time the plane took off from St johns bound for the emptiness of the atlantic ocean. The four turboprop engines pushed the plane into the sky. Soon it was at 3000 feet as it headed out. The light began to fade and the temperature began to drop the crew turned on their anti icing systems just to be safe. An hour passes and the plane gets pushed around by some turbulence, the pilots noticed that the windshield was a bit dirty, there was some buildup in the corners. It looked like ice but it didn't melt no matter what they did. They didnt think much of it, they then had to start collecting data, they took the plane even lower down to 2500 feet to collect weather data. The flight was still normal and data collection went fine for the next few hours. When i say the flight was normal i mean normal for these pilots, they were battling winds of up to 95 knots a few thousand feet above the surface of the ocean. That is objectively horrifying. By 10 Pm, they were almost done with their mission they were getting ready to drop their last dropsnode. The dropsnode is this tube filled with sensors with a parachute at the end, they're dropped from the plane and it collects data all the way down to the surface of the ocean. They dropped the drops node and began downloading the data as the plane held 3000 feet. Moments later a few crewmembers in the cabin noticed flames from engine number 3’s tailpipe. The crew member immediately got on the intercom and said “fire on number three flames flames flames”, at the same time the pilots in the cockpit got a warning light letting them know that the turbine inlet temperature for engine number three was very high but they got no fire warning, the power produced by the engine began to reduce. The captain immediately took action and ordered an emergency shutdown of engine number three. Inorder to compensate They increased power on engines 1 2 and 4. As the first officer was working through the emergency checklist for engine number three a voice in the intercom said. Fire on number 4 and like before, the turbine inlet temperature was very high and the power started dropping off but no fire warning. They started the emergency shutdown checklist for engine number 4 as well. The Orion turned west and the captain increased power on the two remaining engines cautiously. The plane climbed but engines 1 and 2 were working overtime to keep this plane in the air the captain was worried that the high angle of attack or just too much stress on the