Blow Out leads to Death
Horrible story about a blowout and loss of control of MoHo into the trees. His wife was following and watched it happen. The exact cause may not be truly know but they believe that it was a blowout. ...
Forum Discussion
westend wrote:
CD,
The only failing of your recovery plan is that you don't have miles of airspace under your MH to give time to recover.
If you're towing that Blazer and experience a full tire failure on the steer axle, your MH will be yawing immediately and all that about cruise control, flashers, and reasoning out a response, will be gone in an instant. To say you won't be startled is a stretch.
Two things:
You did not mention the first thing I would do, which is to immediately control the MH with the steering wheel (it's intuitive, and you do it in less than ONE second). Keep in mind, that you're already doing it as you drive down the interstate. Now, if you panic at the sound and the feel of a blowout, IMO you're a substandard driver.
Secondly, there's no such thing as "miles of airspace" under you when one engine fails at Vr or below. What you see and feel is significant yaw, at about 120 MPH (as you speed down the runway). Yes, I've experienced that also, and immediately arrested the yaw, and gained speed on the power from the other engine, and flew off to a safe holding pattern.
The important thing is that this is not about me, it's about what everybody else will do. That's the stimulus that we should promote.
