The fact that there would have been no record of Flight 120's last moments shows that no one ever contemplated a scenario that included a complete power failure on a 757. Investigators could have recovered data recorded before the electrical generating systems failed but no data would have been available after the ship's battery took over. If Flight 120 had not made it, no one would have known what happened because the Flight Data Recorder stopped recording to save precious electrical power. Mike Hynes of the Continental Central Air Safety Committee. "This is about the worst you're ever going to face," said Capt. There was so little electricity available that even the transponder stopped transmitting so Continental Flight 120 disappeared from air traffic control screens in Anchorage.Įven if Humphreys could dead reckon his way to the tiny island in the dark and stay away from the nearby mountains, he had to guide the unlit jetliner with 150 passengers on board through a cloud deck of unknown depth with only the standby artificial horizon to save him from disorientation.Īnd he had to do it without any help from ATC or autopilots or on-board computers or global positioning satellites or any of the other technology modern pilots depend on but which don't work when there's no electricity. Humphreys had never landed at Ketchikan, an uncontrolled airfield on a small island surrounded by mountainous terrain, and he had only four standby flight instruments, one dim cockpit light and basic navigational equipment, including a directional gyro, a VOR receiver and one ILS receiver. "If the links in the chain hadn't been broken, we probably would have wound up with an accident."Īlthough the incident happened months ago, it's important to examine it because of the lessons it can teach. "It's one of the most serious events that we've had in recent history," said Toby Carroll, Continental Director of Safety Investigations. Humphreys knew he had 30 minutes to get it on the ground before the juice in the ship's battery was gone - and he was 37,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean about 100 nautical miles south-southwest of Ketchikan. and for the first time in the history of the 757, one was flying on battery power.
#FINDY TOBY GENERATOR#
That's right, all the layers of protection peeled away - the Integrated Drive Generators (IDGs), the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) and the Hydraulic Motor Generator (HMG). 12, 2000, and all of the redundant electrical generating systems failed one by one. He was flying a Continental B-757 red eye from Anchorage to Seattle on Aug. In this case, Humphreys had 30 minutes to save his passengers, his crew and himself.
#FINDY TOBY MOVIE#
It was almost like a James Bond movie where the villain flips the switch on the time bomb and the intrepid secret agent has 30 minutes to free himself and save the world. Jim Humphreys was facing the unimaginable - a 30-minute countdown to almost certain catastrophe.
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