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Onboard footage from cabin of 767 gear-up landing and evacuation
Video footage from the cabin and evacuation slides of 767 gear-up landing and evacuation (www.youtube.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Awesome job by entire crew. Cockpit and cabin.
Dang fine landing and a tough bird as well!!!
Great job landing that plane. Putting that liquid foam on runway was brilliant idea. All comercial planes should be build with a teflon type material on their bellies for emergencies.
That's what the foam is for and pretty much used standard. On most landings of that type, there is advnce warning for ground crews to get it down.
Not sure teflon is a great idea, the plane would never stop!! How about velcro.
Airplanes are designed and built to fly, not crash.
My understanding is that (in the U.S.), they don't put down the foam because of the difficulty of driving fire apparatus through it, and because of the increased stopping distance.
I think it is generally the discretion of the Fire chief or command on the ground
I agree that it would be up to the IC, but it would seem to fall into the category of "why make an emergency worse". Being able to accurately, and reliably position fire/rescue apparatus would far outweigh any benefit of laying down foam on a runway which may not even contain the aircraft once stopped.
It would depend soley on the circumstance. All are different. IC normally is in contact with pilot and they will go from there. Normal laydown would be on the centerline from approximate touchdown point for length to be determined. Sole purpose is to hold down sparking and hopefully stop any ignition on leaking fuel. This was an excellent landing but if a wing or engibne rips off and fuel gushes, all the foam in the world ain't gonna help that much, except as you say, make a mess. Even after a good one like this, all that still had to be washed off after the plane got moved. If you will notice, most apparatus gets positioned around or just behind the estimated touchdown point and chases an aircraft down the runway, so as not to get it caught up in a crash if there is one.