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Sukhoi Superjet 100 Wheels Up Landing During Autoland Testing
Sukhoi says a Superjet 100 involved in a wheels-up landing at Reykjavik Keflavik International Airport in Iceland on July 21 will be repaired and returned to the test program. The Russian manufacturer says the fourth development aircraft, which joined the program in 2010, was in the final phases of autoland certification testing when the accident occurred on the airport’s runway 11. The aircraft, with five onboard, was conducting Cat IIIA autoland tests in crosswinds as well as simulated… (www.aviationweek.com) Más...Does the superjet really have the ability for the autoland system to drop the gear?
If it did, it didn't work. :)
The article didn't say the approach to 11 was an auto land apprch. That's unclear. May be why it was a gear up.
It said that earlier approaches were to 20. This one overflew 11 and went around. Just a conjecture: Assuming that autoland does normally drop the gear, could the go-around reset the computer and uncovered a software problem? Scenario- on approach, lower gear, start go-around- raise gear, re-approach- computer forgot it had pulled gear up. That would make it a software problem.
just a thought.
just a thought.
What ever happened... Someone or Something made a mistake.
That's 100% correct. The airlines all specify that the gear must be down for a landing. No airline currently performs regular gear up landings.