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Peter Cromarty
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This channel contains videos about my experiences as an air traffic controller in Bahrain during the 1980’s plus other stuff I thought might be of interest.
ENGINE FAILURE AFTER TAKE-OFF
I had an engine failure after take-off in a single-engined aircraft, at night, at an unfamiliar aerodrome. Here’s what happened...
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I BOUGHT A KIT AIRCRAFT - THIS IS HOW I CHOSE IT
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I describe the process I went through to select a home-built kit aircraft. Covers: Number of seats, Speed, Endurance, Altitude, Engine/fuel, Material, High/low wing, Folding wings, Tricycle/tailwheel, Convert tailwheel to floats, Amphibian, Avionics, Availability, Costs. Trent Palmer's TH-cam Channel: th-cam.com/users/TrentPalmer1 Experimental Aircraft Association: www.eaa.org/eaa Kitplanes web...
Crashes of Gulf Air Boeing 737 GF771 & US Navy UH-3H Sea King Angel 740
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Gulf Air GF 771, a Boeing 737, was flying from Karachi to Abu Dhabi on the night of Friday, 23 September 1983 when it was blown up and crashed near Jebel Ali, UAE with the loss of 112 people. Angel 740, a US Navy UH-3H Sea King, crashed near the USS La Salle in the Arabian Gulf on the evening of Thursday 3 July 1987. In this video I describe my recollections of these two events when I was on du...
Indian Airlines A300 Hijacked to Dubai 25 August 1984
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This video describes my involvement with the hijack of an Indian Airlines Airbus A300 on 25 August 1984 when I was an air traffic controller at Bahrain Air Traffic Control Centre.
USS Stark Hit By Iraqi Exocets 17/18 May 1987
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On the night of Sunday/Monday 17th/18th May 1987 the USS Stark, an American warship, was sailing in the Arabian Gulf northeast of Bahrain. At around 10 pm it was hit by 2 Exocet missiles fired from an Iraqi aircraft. Thirty seven seamen died and twenty one were Injured. In this video I tell the story from my perspective as an air traffic controller on duty at the time in the Bahrain Air Traffic...
Refueling at gulf? Of Mexico?
very well done Sir, Iv'e been a PPL for many years here in NZ and engine failure on take off has always been on my mind, You saved both your lives and that Plane with your expertise and that owner guy should have been thankful for your action, it just showed his true colors, an idiot! thanks for this post as it brings home the importance of being fully aware and alert and not being complacent. best wishes from NZ
Thanks for your kind words, Dave
@@petercromarty you are welcome Sir.
When mine happened, I just remember the desperate desire to stand up.😁 I guess it was because all my windows were coated with oil. My brave passenger did an admirable job giving me patches to see through.
Same thing happened to me about 2 months ago flight testing an experimental airplane, a valve seat came loose and started shaking the airplane and would not produce more than 2000 rpm. My first thought after landing was also carb icing.
What did you do? What altitude were you at?
Thank you for sharing your story! Truly incredible and a blessing you’re still here today.
You’re very kind, thanks.
Bell Bottom is an indian movie on this incident
Thanks very much for letting me know. I’ll watch it.
What was the flight number? I can see IC405 in 1984 which was an A300 hijacked to Lahore where it ended after 17 hours. IC421 in 1985 was a 737-200 which was hijacked to LHE, KHI and then ended in DXB.
I don't know what the flight number was originally because the hijackers changed to “Khalistan nn”, the nn being a number of significance to them but I can’t remember what it was. They never used an Indian Airlines flight number while I ‘controlled' them.
@@petercromarty ok. I am trying to find which A300 did this route to DXB in the 80s. I can only find a 737-200. A sud aviation caravelle flew commandos to a UAE airport to end that. However the A300 episode ended at LHE afaik.
@@petercromarty do you remember the registration of the aircraft involved?
My first cousins husband Randy was one of the 37 killed . It was horrific on his wife and our family . He left behind along with his wife a two year old daughter and a six month old baby boy he’d never met .
I’m very sorry for your loss.
😮 Very nice stressful video
Thanks. Nothing for me compared to what the pilots went through. Glad you enjoyed it!
Hello, Are ya going to be doing any build/progress videos?
Hello 1958HHH, Yes I did consider making some videos but the build is time-consuming enough without all the planning and editing that goes into a video. I have made a few short videos as part of my record of construction for certification but none that I am planning to make public at the moment. I'll think about it when the aircraft is finished. Hope you found the vid interesting and helpful. Regards, Peter
@@petercromarty Have fun building. Yes the video covered many points of comparison I never would have thought of.
@@1958HHH One thing I didn't consider and didn't mention which turned out to be important once I started the build: the quality of the assembly instructions. Check with people who have built the type you are interested in. The Sling 2 instructions are appalling. The Sling TSi instructions are a vast improvement so I have been using them for guidance as many of the features are the same in principle.
Hi Pete, good to watch and see you!
Hello Chris, Long time since Bishops Court. 45 Years! Hope all is well. Please drop me an email - my address is on my website: www.thecrom.com. Kind regards, Peter
Hi Peter good to see you again. Its been for ever.Still in aviation - thats great. Best Regards Mike Wildin
Goodness, Mike - how are you? All well I hope. Please drop me an email - my address is on my website: www.thecrom.com. Kind regards, Peter
Hello Derek, Blimey, long time! Love to have a chat - please just drop me an email with your contact details - my address is on my website: www.thecrom.com. Kind regards, Peter
hi Pete, wow what a surprise! Good to see you you're still getting airborne, as am I. It would be great to talk again....long time since we last met up. Best regards, Derek
Hi Peter, my father was a B737 captain with GA at the time, Rex Edwards. You may have known him. I remember the in incident at the time. However, if there was a bomb onboard, what was the motivation? We’re there any high profile pax on the flight?
Hello Marc, I don't know anything about the motivation or whether there was a high-profile passenger. I do remember your Dad - well known at the time among the controllers - for always flying as fast as possible. I was once setting up a sequence of arrivals, I said to your dad, "Keep your speed up, you'll be number one." That was all the invitation he needed. Shortly afterwards another voice from a Gulf Air pilot said, "Is it shaking yet, Rex?" An allusion to mach buffet, I think.
@@petercromarty yes, he did have a reputation for arriving at dinner parties in Bahrain well before even the scheduled ETA of his flight into Muharraq. I am now retired in the US and recently sold my Piper M600, but kept a twin C-340A that I still fly. Rex’s granddaughter Gemma solo’d on her 16th birthday and has his need for speed in her genes. All the best!
I wonder why the Iraqis would use a converted civilian aircraft?
Hello Dan, my understanding is that the Mirage F1 didn’t have the range to reach targets at the far end of the Gulf, so the Iraqis had a Dassault Falcon converted to carry 2 Exocets. The Mirage only mounted 1.
@@petercromarty thanks. Someone was thinking outside the box.
Coz they crazy just like that see how they messed their country.
@@anthonykenneth.1780 Deep...
I was on watch as AE.
A ton.
Type me up. I was there and was on the USS Coontz DDG-40 and your story needs more detail.
I was on the USS California CGN-36. The Stark relieved us from our mod and we proceeded too, then through the Suez.