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Incredible all the footage we get these days from accidents and warzones.
Can only guess the landing gears took A LOT of the initial impact. Crazyness.
Wonder what speed that is when coming down, be interesting to know, I think I read those landing gears are built to take so many x times the impact they usually take for safety margins.Took all of it pretty much - completely collapsed, pushed through the wing and took the wing itself with it. The remaining airspeed against the slightly elevated left hand wing was enough to make it roll over.
Always wear your seatbelts kids.
Incredible all the footage we get these days from accidents and warzones.
Wonder what speed that is when coming down, be interesting to know, I think I read those landing gears are built to take so many x times the impact they usually take for safety margins.
In fair ness when things like that happen our brains like to go "blugah smlurg mageee aowweeeeee", when thinking rationally.Plane literally upside down on fire and it looks like some people still stopped to grab their bags...
it's certainly a testament to the engineering and safety measures involved in the design of the aircraft, seats and restraints.Absolutely mental that no one died.
Plane literally upside down on fire and it looks like some people still stopped to grab their bags...
roll ? wind sheer like for some of the shots linked before from the guy who films big jet landing attempts at LHR, with plane at 45degrees to runway
Interesting bbc podcast about bird strike/culling measures on the hudson & others today https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00282hs
(I liked the comment on damage that a frozen chicken would do to a car windscreen versus a jet engine .. in retrospect maybe comparison with a planes windscreen was more relevant)
video - you can't really appraise if there is an oblique angle of approach of the plane to runway for wind, to know if he has to make a steering adjustment as it touches down
Do aerofoils/tail/engines have a significant input at that point or is it down to landing wheel friction?
... hopefully their optimism of no death despite critical injuries is founded.
so they rotate the plane when there is a cross-wind and they land at an angle - by rudder.
It also means if you do fall asleep mid flight, then you won't get woken up by someone telling you to put your seatbelt on when you get turbulence mid flight (aside from the safety reason of course).(e: old person was killed on the turbulence in mid-air incident last year ... so probably should always wear belt)
yes those are the type of landings ... even if airport radar cant track the motions I guess black box does.