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747 freighter crashes in Colombia
  • Two killed in house when cargo jet hits ranch outside Bogota
    Kalitta Air 747 was carrying flowers to Miami
    Company says jet had eight crewmembers aboard; some reported injured
[BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Local authorities say a flower-laden U.S. cargo plane headed for Miami has crashed near the Colombian capital, killing two people on the ground.








None of the plane's crew have been reported killed Monday, although some are injured.
It is the second crash in two months of a Boeing 747 flown by Kalitta Air of Ypsilanti, Michigan.
 
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This place has its issues. Conrad Kalitta has been known to bully his crewmembers into doing things! My friend that worked there for 3 years said that their takeoff breifings are not if, but when we lose an engine on takeoff! I sure hope the feds are taking a close look at this place.
 
Connie will continue his unsafe practices until the FAA shuts him down. There are many outstanding pilots and flight engineers at Kalitta but even with their skills and training it is nearly impossible not have incidents/accidents while flying Kalitta's armada of junk. A friend from Delta spent two years at Kalitta while on furlough. During his 2 years at Kalitta, he had four catastrophic engine failures. On each occasion, he and his crew handled the situation flawlessly and safely landed the jet. He was then brought to the office in Ypsitucky, MI for the Connie carpet dance, coqs@cker briefing and troll intimidation ritual. Needless to say, he took his recall back to Delta.

My guess is that Kalitta still has many in charge in flight ops who aren't even qualified on the aircraft that they are managing.

Sorry to hear about the accident. Best of luck to all Kalitta pilots.
 
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Scott Kalitta Dies in Fatal Drag Racing Crash


Englishtown, N.J. - Scott Kalitta, 46, was killed during the qualifying round of the Lucas Oil NHRA SuperNationals on Saturday, June 21, 2008 at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. The fatal crash caused drag car racer's Scott Kalitta to go out of control, and crashed according to the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA). Scott Kalitta is survived by his wife, Kathy and sons Corey, 14, and Colin, 8.

After the crash, the NHRA emergency crew removed drag car racer Scott Kalitta from the vehicle. Scott Kalitta was then "brought to Old Bridge Township Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead," according to the NHRA.

Media reports have been slightly more graphic, including the report that the car "crashed and burst into flames," from the Associated Press (AP.com). That description has been picked up, as has "fiery crash," by media, but the flames and fires are not mentioned on the NHRA.com web site.

There has been no official word on what caused the car of Scott Kalitta, a Funny Car driver, to lose control.
 
FBN0223 said:
No kidding!!! Didn't they also have an engine land in Lake Michigan after falling off a Kalitta B747 a couple years ago? That outfit is a hazard.
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Yes they did. My buddy was the co-pilot. He just about $hit himself. They were over a thick stratus layer at the time and at the moment thought that the engine might have landed on a house or car or something.

The Captain did a smart thing and noted the time the engine fell off. Once on the ground and with the time written down, they overlayed the time hack with the radar track with ATC, and were able to tell that the engine fell into lake Michigan.

My friend ended up quiting and is now at UPS.
 
Not a good day in YIP, looks like a DC-9 from USA Jet crashed in Mexico.
 
FBN0223 said:
Connie will continue his unsafe practices until the FAA shuts him down. There are many outstanding pilots and flight engineers at Kalitta but even with their skills and training it is nearly impossible not have incidents/accidents while flying Kalitta's armada of junk. A friend from Delta spent two years at Kalitta while on furlough. During his 2 years at Kalitta, he had four catastrophic engine failures. On each occasion, he and his crew handled the situation flawlessly and safely landed the jet. He was then brought to the office in Ypsitucky, MI for the Connie carpet dance, coqs@cker briefing and troll intimidation ritual. Needless to say, he took his recall back to Delta.

My guess is that Kalitta still has many in charge in flight ops who aren't even qualified on the aircraft that they are managing.

Sorry to hear about the accident. Best of luck to all Kalitta pilots.
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What unsafe practices are they doing over at Kalitta?
I've worked for Connie and Im not so sure you know what your talking about. Its not the greatest place to be but it was by far better then any commuter or corporate to be at. They train to an extremely high level(I'd say they are better trained then most majors) A lot of the mechanics came from NWA and the ride ons are top notch. There fleet age is compareable to NWA's freight fleet.UPS and fed ex fly older aircraft as well. Are those places better? Hell Yes! But I would go back to work for Connie in a second if things went belly-up where im at now. Spreading hateful propaganda is easy when you can hide behind a avatar and screen name! Leave Connie alone, he's dealt with enough crap this year and,the people that work for him deserve their jobs!

Also the pylon repair that resulted in the engine departing the aircraft was performed by Boeing.
 
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woody said:
Also the pylon repair that resulted in the engine departing the aircraft was performed by Boeing.
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Sure, whatever you say....

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:
The number one engine separated from the airplane during climb due to the uncontained separation of a portion of the second stage turbine disk rim after the second stage turbine vanes contacted the disk. The second stage turbine vanes contacted the second stage turbine disk due to the operator's inadequate inspection of the high pressure turbine module and the improper repair of the module by unknown maintenance personnel.
 
Woody looks like you got schooled by lil bubba.....

The proof is in the pudding; I always say - with all those incidence one must ask ones self - is that company just unlucky or is it a systemic problem. Me thinks the latter statement to be most correct.

Besides, I hear nothing but negative stuff about that guy even if 5 percent is true he sounds like a mean nasty jerk. But to keep an undercutting low-ball ops like that going, I suppose you have to be. I could never operate in such a fashion, because I do things the right way. IMHO.
 
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This place is starting to look like the 1990's version of US Air. Luckily they were only carrying flowers.
 
A friend of mine there said doing recurrent training was EASY, since he had seen all of the loft scenarios on the line already.

Bye Bye--General Lee
 
Yea, my Delta buddy while on furlough at Kalitta had four engine failures, including one at 30W and another high speed RTO. Recurrent for him was a snap as well.
 
Mesalitta!

About the time Kallita is shut down by the FAA I'm sure Mesa's CEO will need another job. So, J.O. and Kalitta will get together and create the pit airline of the industry. They will probably fly 747s for about $19 an hour in the right seat and around $50 an hour in the left seat and talk about the greatness of their airline. Anything's possible....
 
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hopefully the crew got out of columbia or is getting out before they get put into jail. That the bad part about being out of the US
 
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hopefully the crew got out of columbia or is getting out before they get put into jail. That the bad part about being out of the US
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I think a FARC rescue team helped them........


Bye Bye--General Lee
 

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