He immediately shut down the engine, stopping the explosions and shaking. Rivers was able to tell that the right inboard engine was malfunctioning, back- firing violently. Although the plane was shaking so violently that it was hard to read the instruments, Capt. Several loud explosions shook the craft and smoke and flames, easily visible in the midnight sky, illuminated the right wing. Suddenly the plane began to shudder violently. It looked like the start of another routine flight. Rivers pulled the throt- tle back and the airplane took to the air, heading northwest across the San Francisco peninsula towards the ocean.
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At full throttle the plane began to roll ponderously down the runway, slowly at first but building up to flight speed well within normal limits. Rivers noticed that San Francisco’s famous fog was creeping in, obscuring the hills to the north and west of the airport. As he revved his four engines for takeoff, Capt. The giant plane, weighing almost 450,000 pounds by itself, was carrying a full load of passengers and baggage, plus 400,000 pounds of fuel for the long flight from San Francisco to Australia. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.” -Thomas Carlyleġ.1 Introduction On March 19, 1999, the following story appeared in The Wall Street Journal: Captain Chet Rivers knew that his 747-400 was loaded to the limit. Harrell−Ghosh−Bo wden: Simulation Using ProModel, Second Edition