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A Pilot's Take on Landing Gear Problems
Gear problems are great fodder for the media machine, but seldom if ever deadly. Published in Slate magazine. (www.slate.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Wow! Quite a Boeing fan.
No brag, just fact. Airbus will eventually get there, but as with the difference in lawyers, experience teaches and Boeing has been at it a lot longer.
Experience teaches, yes. Some learn in 5 years, some in 10 and some - never.
All depends on inherent ability(or inability).
All depends on inherent ability(or inability).
heard one report that indicated plane flared for landing but then suddenly hit nose wheel first. Note heavy clouds in photo. Was weather a factor in some last second wind event?
Heard the same. That he had flared, but then the nose was rotated down quickly, and the plane hit nose first. Could be wx as some have suggested (maybe a last minute microburst), or premature rotation before touching down.
Look a up top at the comment Phil Rudd posted. Makes more sense than anything on here.
Yes, it would make sense that way. I'm trying to accomadate reports that he did flare, but then rotated thR nose down quickly before touchdown.
On second though, I didn't notice any sudden rotations in the videos, so high and fast into nose first seems a reasonable explanation.
On second though, I didn't notice any sudden rotations in the videos, so high and fast into nose first seems a reasonable explanation.
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same thing happened to fedex in japan a few years back....