Saint in Paradise Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 Brand new A380 with Korean Airline manages to scrape an engine on landing. http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4400bee5&opt=1 After looking at the picture in that link I am glad I wasn't on board. I am a bad enough flyer anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 25 July, 2011 Share Posted 25 July, 2011 Looking at that, he's touched the upwind engine on the ground, which is unusual, normally it's the other way around. The landing gear on the upwind side is supposed to touch the ground first. This guy has the right idea, but it looks like he has just overdone it a bit. It's no big drama really, will probably have had a few structural checks after though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsland Codger Posted 25 July, 2011 Share Posted 25 July, 2011 Brings back fond memories of landing at Hong Kong's Kai Tak http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PCOcyt7BPI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 25 July, 2011 Share Posted 25 July, 2011 Brings back fond memories of landing at Hong Kong's Kai Tak http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PCOcyt7BPI I almost shat myself when we landed there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Paradise Posted 25 July, 2011 Author Share Posted 25 July, 2011 Some Very interesting stuff about Narita airport being a very difficult at times airport to land at and also some Very interesting stuff about Korean Airlines. I was extremely ever unlikely to fly with them but after reading through the 4 pages I will never ever fly with them now. ( The forum pages are not as long as on here btw ) http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/458014-koreanair-a380-tail-strike-nrt.html . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 25 July, 2011 Share Posted 25 July, 2011 strange photo, looks like he's missing a set of wheels on the side that touches the ground,probably just an optical illusion though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurosaint Posted 25 July, 2011 Share Posted 25 July, 2011 Brings back memories for me ! 1) Was on Delta airlines having taken off towards Seoul when we had a 'blowout stall' in one engine whilst flying through a thunderstorm, not nice, had to circle for an hour to jettison fuel before returning and a full emergency landing ! 2) Was in the terminal when a bomb went off in the baggage area (1985 Canadian Pacific incident!), 2 handlers were killed and all hell broke loose in the airport ! Been there many other times without mishap but those things kinda stick in the memory bank !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derry Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 Brand new A380 with Korean Airline manages to scrape an engine on landing. http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4400bee5&opt=1 After looking at the picture in that link I am glad I wasn't on board. I am a bad enough flyer anyway It looks like he got it wrong. The best technique is to fly the approach crabbed into wind and maintain that until about 30-40 ft agl then in this case apply left rudder to align the aircraft with the centreline and simultaneously apply sufficient right aileron to stop the right wing rising and to keep the aircraft from drifting to the left at the same time carrying out a normal flare. It looks like too much right aileron was applied which induced a sideslip to the right, allowing the outboard pod to strike the ground. In the normal way the pod wouldn't contact the ground without the sideslip. I've carried out thousands of landings on aircraft up to 200 ft long without problems and in much stronger winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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