Alan C. Mack

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1,629 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 17 Sep

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The Megyn Kelly Show · Holdout Juror on Kevin Reddington, the Macklemore-Robert Kraft Controversy, and Helicopter Crash Details, with Emily Jashinsky, Ray Marcel, and Alan C. Mack | Ep. 1400 · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

At that altitude, you know, uh it's you gotta be really good in a lot a lot of luck, really.

that I've seen come from their camera, which is zoomed in.

So, you know, they're probably between five hundred and eight hundred feet, which is right at the edge of that aircraft's uh height velocity diagram.

You know.

Yeah, so it's an engine problem, which is so the engine drives the rotor and by spinning that's how you get air flowing over the the rotary wings, right?

So on an airplane you go forward as fast as you need to to get lift, and in a helicopter you spin the rotors to get that lift.

you lose the engine, it drags down very, very fast, you know, and you don't have a lot of time.

You know, the only the only thing they could do in that case had they had enough altitude or

nothing in front of them, no obstacles, is to essentially nose the aircraft over to gain some speed, which you know will increase your rate of descent, which also brings the air up through the rotor system to try to get that rotor, you know, operating RPM back.

But you know, it's tough.

You know, when p when somebody makes a successful landing like that, you know, it's like, oh my God, that guy is amazing because

It's not that easy to do.

There's no time.

It you know, it reminds me, you know, you'll get all kinds of people, you know, with ideas on how they could have done it, but I take you back to the Sully situation where, you know, the uh in the investigation they told pilots, you know, they were gonna turn to a Tito Borough or Lagordia or whatever they're gonna do, but they knew it ahead of time.

And you know, eventually they had to say, Look, you have to have time to diagnose the problem and once they did, nobody could make those airfields.

The Megyn Kelly Show · Secrets of the Night Stalkers, and Rescuing Marcus Luttrell, with Army Master Aviator Alan C. Mack | Ep. 1324 · 25 May 2026 podcast

Oh, thanks for having me.

You know, like I said earlier, I enjoyed almost all of it.

No, not really.

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