to suggest it would have the same survivability as hitting a reinforced concrete wall buried in a raised mound is ridiculous. Its not even remotely similar in strength.
it had barely touched the ground to reduce drag - it would slow quickly once its outside the wall.
Because it absolutely misses every other point. The aircraft had absolutely no business being there. The reg changes some folks are trying to enforce are here lack common sense frankly. There are airports in all sorts of conditions and terrains which are far worse than this one.
dID yOu eVeN wAtCh tHe vIdEo - there is LOTS to discuss other than the block. And even the block is being discussed like a 4 year old; ignoring the fact it's within regulations, it's 900m from the sensible place a plane should stop, it's 50m shy of another wall, the plane was doing such a speed that a few twigs would have caused it a serious issue.
Yup, it's the usual thing, but people will claim this has never happened before so we don't need to worry about it - but a google shows aircraft are hitting ILS antenna every now again and planes are making crash landings on runways and then ending up outside the airport perimeter. There's also planes landing short now and again, due to fuel or whatever. Whilst steps should clearly be taken to prevent these from happening in the first place, planes do and can crash. I don't think stating planes shouldn't be there in the first place would fly now, particularly in the UK where the HSE would require that the risk is ALARP. I would expect the regulations to now be updated to say that airports should take reasonable steps to ensure there's nothing in that area beyond the end of the runway that would cause a catastrophic loss of life like that. Conversely if there's a school or something at the other end of the airport perimeter it may actually be appropriate to have a hard boundary!
In your googling how many have hit structures at 150mph?
Just needs to be ALARP, we're not talking about forcing airports to divert the Thames
Id love to see the numbers on ALARP and what the algorithm would spit out for this one! Pilot totally negligent (presumably), not deploying landing gear or thrusters and landing half way down the run way. How likely is that to happen again?Just needs to be ALARP, we're not talking about forcing airports to divert the Thames
Maybe not, it only takes one rupture to potentially spark a fireball anyway. It would have travelled a long distance at the speed it was doing. Many airports around the world have structures around them beyond the localiser structures that a plane doing this speed off the end of the runway would hit, imagine this at Heathrow, it would cause utter carnage beyond the airport. Are we saying that is unsafe now?
The vast majority of airports tend not to have massive structures just off the end of the runway like that though - there has been plenty warnings that this could happen in that case.
It does help if you don't try to 'land' halfway down said runway too.
In the UK it would be hitting a structure beyond many airport limits. You simply can't regulate for a plane belly rolling 150mph off the end of the runway. No landing gear drag to slow it down either. There is a BP Garage about 650m off the end of Heathrow 09R.
So you're getting in first before even the official enquiry tells you that you are wrong and it will all be a fix just to appease public opinion?
Brb only flying to Bristol from now onSo you're getting in first before even the official enquiry tells you that you are wrong and it will all be a fix just to appease public opinion?
Brilliant.
Are you thinking of the Simpsons 'fear of flying' episode?
