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croyde said:
What's the story?Incident: Korean A388 at Tokyo on Jul 21st 2011, engine pod strike
By Simon Hradecky, created Thursday, Jul 21st 2011 17:25Z, last updated Thursday, Jul 21st 2011 17:26Z
A Korean Air Airbus A380-800, registration HL7611 performing flight KE-701 from Seoul (South Korea) to Tokyo Narita (Japan) with 168 people on board, landed on Tokyo's runway 34L at a right bank angle sufficient to have the outboard right engine's pod contact the runway surface. The airplane rolled out safely at around 11:20L (02:20Z) and taxied to the apron.
The airport reported the runway was closed for about 20 minutes for a runway inspection which revealed scratch marks on the runway surface.
Following checks the aircraft was able to perform its return flight KE-702 normally reaching Seoul with a delay of one hour.
Metars:
RJAA 210330Z 02020KT 9999 FEW015 BKN020 BKN035 20/16 Q1005 WS R34R TEMPO 04018G30KT RMK 1CU015 5CU020 7SC035 A2968
RJAA 210300Z 02022G33KT 8000 FEW015 BKN020 BKN030 19/15 Q1005 NOSIG RMK 2ST015 5CU020 7SC030 A2968 0254 MOD TURB 500FT AND BLW ON DEP COURSE RWY34L B77W
RJAA 210042Z 02021G31KT 8000 FEW009 BKN012 BKN015 19/17 Q1004 WS R34L WS R34R RMK 2ST009 5CU012 7CU015 A2966 0030 WS PS MS 10KT 2000FT AND BLW ON DEP COURSE RWY
ETOPS said:
Eric Mc said:
Those Koreans.
If someone is going to crash an airliner, it will be the Koreans.
There's a very high chance that the flight deck was occupied by non-Koreans. If someone is going to crash an airliner, it will be the Koreans.
Pretty unsubstantiated comment, Eric.
If it were the same, but Air France, you'd be on to something!
Fair enough. There is reason to believe they are getting better.
I've spoken to two pilots who landed at Narita that day, both said that conditions were dreadful. One pilot said it was the most challenging approach in his entire career. Dreadful windshear and large athwartships gusts. Japanese approach procedures are tenuous at the best of times, but according to those I spoke to, there's no surprise that a jumbo clipped a pod. Combined with the fact that Airbii are pretty tricky in windshear.
Sadly, I'm sure there's a couple of P45s in the post.
I've spoken to two pilots who landed at Narita that day, both said that conditions were dreadful. One pilot said it was the most challenging approach in his entire career. Dreadful windshear and large athwartships gusts. Japanese approach procedures are tenuous at the best of times, but according to those I spoke to, there's no surprise that a jumbo clipped a pod. Combined with the fact that Airbii are pretty tricky in windshear.
Sadly, I'm sure there's a couple of P45s in the post.
Edited by ETOPS on Saturday 23 July 13:15
Things going pear-shaped is when we earn our pay. I'm certainly a believer that we've got to fill our bucket of experience before our bucket of luck runs dry.
It could well be that the bucket of A380 experience was very empty, given that these guys will have had no more A380 landings than you've got fingers.
It could well be that the bucket of A380 experience was very empty, given that these guys will have had no more A380 landings than you've got fingers.
magpie215 said:
Pah! That was a pretty standard Kai Tak day. Southerly winds would push you wide as you turned off the IGS. Much crosswind carnage ensued. Of course, we, as the hosts, knew the little tips and tricks to avoid looking like that 744 in the video.
ChiChoAndy said:
Hooli said:
Or tyres going from stopped to 150mph (ish) in a fraction of a second, stop on touchdown is normal I thought?
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