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This is the story of Northwest orient airlines flight 623. On the first of december 1974. A boeing 727 was on the ground at JFk international. The thing was, they didnt need the plane at JFK anymore and so the decision was taken to ferry the plane all the way from JFK to buffalo newyork. This would be a ferry flight, so the only people onboard the plane were the 3 pilots. As they entered the cockpit they started to prep the plane for flight.
Once the plane was fueled with 48,500 pounds or 22 tons of fuel. the plane started to taxi to the runway through the biting cold of december. 14 minutes later the plane was at the runway. Monemtents later the pilots got the all clear from the controllers and they were cleared to takeoff. The pilots pushed the throttles forward and the 727 started to gain speed. In less than a minute the 727 was airborne bound for buffalo. As the jet climbed away from the airport kenedy departure contacted the pilots and cleared them to 14000 feet. In the cockpit as the plane climbed the pilots noticed something strange. Their speed increased from 264 knots to 304 knots, but it didnt stay there. Their airspeed was all over the place, it would drop by 40 knots and then come back up and then it would drop by a 140 knots and then return to normal. All of this happened in less than a minute. As pilots tried to make sense of what was happening the aircraft was handed over from Kennedy departure to new york air route traffic control center.
As flight 6231 passed 16,000 feet their recorded airspeed began to spike again and so did their rate of climb. This caught the first officers eye he said “do you realize were going 340 knots and im climbing 5000 feet a minute!?”. The second officer commented that the high rate of climb was beacuse the plane was so light and soon after he said that the rate of climb increased again this time to 6500 feet per minute. By the time they were at 23000 feet the overspeed warning sounded, they were at 405 knots the captain remarked “would you believe that,?”, the first officer replied with “I do believe it but I cant do anything about it”. The captain asked the first officer to pull back saying quote “let her climb”. Seconds after saying that a second overspeed warning sounded. But then starnegly 10 seconds after the overspeed warning the stall warning sounded, the warning came on intermittently and as it did the plane started to buffet. The first officer said “theres that mach buffeting, guess well have to pull it up” the captain agreed by saying “pull it up”. The plane had gone from an overspeed warning to a stall warning in seconds and the pilots couldnt make heads or tails of what was happening. But as all of this unfolded in the cockpit flight 6231 started to fall at 15000 feet per minute towards the ground.
From the ground controllers perspective everything had been normal upto this point but then at 7:24 pm a radio call came from flight 6231 “mayday mayday mayday were out of control descending through 20000 feet”. Flight 6231 was in trouble and the controller on the ground was trying his best to help the stricken plane, he cleared the airspace around the plane and cleared them down to lower altitudes as the plane dropped. As the plane fell out of the sky he tried to get more information from the pilots about what their exact problem was. The pilots replied with “ Were descending through 12 were in a stall”.In the cockpit the pilots were trying their best to save the plane the captain extended the flaps in an attempt to slow the fall of the plane. In the cockpit the g forces that they were subjected to went from a mild three to a brutal 5 as the pilots fought for control of the falling plane. The plane was dropping fast and the pilots were running out of time to save their plane. But that was the last time anyone heard from flight 6231 moments later the plane crashed into the harriman state park. None of the three pilots on board survived.
26 авг 2024