Spinning the P-3 Orion

[jslugman]

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/unusual-attitude/2008/08/spinning-the-p3c-orion.html

[phantomphan1974]

WOW, they were lucky!

[jslugman]

No kidding, that could have ended a hundred different ways and most of them involved a mop and a bucket.

[wingsnstuff]

Several earlier versions of this scenario didn't end so well.  Back in the 70s two P-3s embedded themselves in mountains near Sigonella.  Those incidents caused a major change in the P-3s NATOPS manual for simulating and/or responding to such failures.