The Training Flight From Hell | The Crash Of TWA 5787

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This is the story of TWA airlines flight 5787. On the 26th of july 1969 a boeing 707 was flying from JFK international to Atlantic city airport in pomona New jersey. This wasnt a regular flight this was a proficiency flight. Back in the day simulators ,well sucked so the best way to test your skills and to learn new procedures was to try them out for real in an actual aircraft. The cargo 707 left JFK international airport at 11:46 am and the captain who was getting the proficiency check was in the captains seat on the left hand side and the instructor was on the right hand side. Once the 707 was in the vicinity of atlantic city airport the jet was handed over to atlantic city ATC and the pilots were getting ready to start their simulations. The first thing that they wanted to try was a full stop landing on runway 13. So the controllers set the plane up on an ILS approach to runway 13, the landing was done successfully. While on the ground the pilots asked the tower if they could back track down the runway, then make a 180 degree turn. For this takeoff the instructing pilot would be simulating an engine failure after V1. V1 is the speed after which you can no longer reject a takeoff so the captain being trained had to carry out a three engined climbout and then talk to ATC and then bring the plane back into land on runway 13.
Like i said before today this would be done in a simulator but they were limited by the technology of their time and so this was the best way to do it.

So with everyone on the same page the 707 lined up on runway 13. The 4 engines roared to life as the 707 started to roll down the runway. As they surged past their V1 speed the instructor pilot pulled back power on engine number 4 to simulate it failing on takeoff. As engine number 4 rolled back to idle the captain in training started to follow the TWA emergency checklists as per procedure. He managed to get the plane level at 1500 feet and then they began to manveer to intercept the ILS of runway 13. At this point the instructor pilot told the captain that he had to carry out a three engined ILS approach and to expect a missed approach at the decision height. The training flight was far from over. As flight 5787 flew towards the outer marker the pre landing and landing checklists were completed. After that the gear was dropped and the flaps were set to 50 degrees. The tower cleared the jet to land the intsruting pilot said “ Ok well take the option” indicating his willingness to land. The huge jet slowly lost altitude and as soon as the jet hit the decision altitude the captain advanced power on engines 1,2 and 3 to commence the go around. Sticking to the checklist he called for flaps 25, max power and for the gear to be retracted. The calls were acknowledged and complied with but unknown to them the flaps and the gears didnt move from where they were. The captain then started to climb away from the airport as part of the go around. 16 seconds into the go around the crew noticed something shocking. Their hydraulic fluid levels had dropped to zero and they were now flying a plane was a disabled engine without any hydraulics. Imediately the captain ordered all hydraulic pumps to be turned off and at this time ATC wanted to know if they wanted to be transferred to the approach controller. The captain replied with “ standby were having a hydraulic problem here” that was the last time that the controller heard from flight 5787. As he watched the plane climb he noticed that the right wing started to drop, the bank was sight at first but it kept building and

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