>
>A Flybe de Havilland Dash 8-400, registration G-ECOE performing flight
>BE-384 from Southampton,EN (UK) to Dublin (Ireland), was climbing out
>of Southampton when the crew stopped the climb at 6000 feet reporting
>unreliable airspeeds. The aircraft returned to Southampton for a safe
>landing about 20 minutes after departure.
>
>Maintenance found a bee had chosen to fly FlyBe within a pitot tube.
>The bee, nick-named FlyBee, was convinced to leave and the aircraft
>was able to depart again reaching Dublin with a delay of 90 minutes.
>
>The airline reported the aircraft returned to Southampton due to a
>suspected technical issue. Upon examination maintenance found a bee
>lodged into an item of instrumentation on the outside of the aircraft.
>
In a similar experience, I was flying a C-130E from Harrisburg to Erie to
do practice approaches. It was January, and we passed through a layer of dense
clouds, which caused ice to form on the nose. When the ice broke loose, it
jammed both pitot tubes, and it took a couple of minutes for the heaters to
work it loose. In the meantime, we had no airspeed indication so we just
maintained torque and rate of climb.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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