Emirates Boeing 777-300 crash-landed at Dubai International Airport

Apparently the aircraft attempted to go-around from a low level due to the windshear, but got caught in it, resulting in a hard landing. Further suggestions they selected gear-up after initiating the go-around but windshear slammed them into ground hence the confusion of gear collapse/gear up.

Certainly adds a bit of explanation as to why it doesn't seem the landing gear has ripped through the wings as bad as we saw with BA38 at Heathrow.
 
Imagine a 3.5 hour flight on fire. By the time you land peolpe will ask about the fire and the crew will just go "oh yeah that old thing, been there for ages" :D


Glad nobody was injured, Emirates are usually one of the top for safety.
 
squerble said:
Apparently the aircraft attempted to go-around from a low level due to the windshear, but got caught in it, resulting in a hard landing. Further suggestions they selected gear-up after initiating the go-around but windshear slammed them into ground hence the confusion of gear collapse/gear up.

Certainly adds a bit of explanation as to why it doesn't seem the landing gear has ripped through the wings as bad as we saw with BA38 at Heathrow.
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Reading Wiki on windshear, I guess this is the one incident for the year then.

Wiki said:
As the result of the accidents in the 1970s and 1980s, most notably following the 1985 crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 191, in 1988 the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration mandated that all commercial aircraft have on-board wind shear detection systems by 1993. Between 1964 and 1985, wind shear directly caused or contributed to 26 major civil transport aircraft accidents in the U.S. that led to 620 deaths and 200 injuries.[24] Since 1995, the number of major civil aircraft accidents caused by wind shear has dropped to approximately one every ten years, due to the mandated on-board detection as well as the addition of Doppler weather radar units on the ground (NEXRAD).[citation needed] The installation of high-resolution Terminal Doppler Weather Radar stations at many U.S. airports that are commonly affected by wind shear has further aided the ability of pilots and ground controllers to avoid wind shear conditions.[25]
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teenwolf said:
wow very lucky there.
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Whilst I know what you mean, I think it's important to point out that the fact everyone was safety evacuated was not down to luck but down to the skill and training of the crew, the people who designed the aircraft, the regulations in place for evacuations, etc etc.

This incident just goes to show that aviation is an incredibly safe method of travel operated by very skilled professionals who did exactly as they were trained to do in the face of an incident and got everyone off the plane quickly and safely.
 
[TW]Fox;29861637 said:
Whilst I know what you mean, I think it's important to point out that the fact everyone was safety evacuated was not down to luck but down to the skill and training of the crew, the people who designed the aircraft, the regulations in place for evacuations, etc etc.

This incident just goes to show that aviation is an incredibly safe method of travel operated by very skilled professionals who did exactly as they were trained to do in the face of an incident and got everyone off the plane quickly and safely.
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yes exactly that.
i just meant if that sort of fire happens at 38000 feet chances of surviving are very slim.

glad everyone got off safely.

flying to spain in a few weeks then onto new york shortly after.
does make you worry a little.
 
Great work by those involved. I'm level headed while most people panic, but I'd still be ******* myself if that happened.
 
[TW]Fox;29861637 said:
Whilst I know what you mean, I think it's important to point out that the fact everyone was safety evacuated was not down to luck but down to the skill and training of the crew, the people who designed the aircraft, the regulations in place for evacuations, etc etc.

This incident just goes to show that aviation is an incredibly safe method of travel operated by very skilled professionals who did exactly as they were trained to do in the face of an incident and got everyone off the plane quickly and safely.
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also luck, all it takes is for one person to trip up and block the aisle for a while to cost a lot of lives.
 
squerble said:
Probably. The landing gear struts smashing through the wing pierces the fuel tanks.
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i don't know about Boeing but on most of the Airbus wings the landing gear is behind the wing box in false work.

380 for instance is designed to all rip away without damaging anything forward of the rear spar, so it shouldn't cause much of a fuel leak or damage the tanks severely
 
Tefal said:
i don't know about Boeing but on most of the Airbus wings the landing gear is behind the wing box in false work.

380 for instance is designed to all rip away without damaging anything forward of the rear spar, so it shouldn't cause much of a fuel leak or damage the tanks severely
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I was basing it on the images of BA38 at Heathrow:

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You can see extensive damage to the wing there - to me, that looks like the landing gear struts have gone up and pierced the tanks.
 
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