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Russia's Sukhoi passenger plane makes emergency landing due to fire on board: agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet plane made an emergency landing in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday due to fire on board, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported, citing a source. (www.reuters.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Modern airliners land overweight everyday safely. The inflight fire is the key to this tragedy.
That's the problem. I don't think there was an inflight fire. The only fire, on the video at least, is the one from the 2nd or 3rd touchdown on the final "landing" that drove the main gear thru the wings and the fuel tanks and caused that huge fire.
Today's airliners cannot land safely at maximum take-off weight, hence the heavy landing, bouncing and gear collapse. Given that the pilots didn't attempt to dump surplus fuel indicates that a real time-critical emergency was already present.
The SSJ can not dump fuel, the only option is to burn it off. Its a smaller sized plane though and thus should be easier to land at max weight than a large airplane.
I don't know about that man. Some planes can't dump fuel while airborne, but I don't know about this Russian plane. And today's and yesterday's airliners CAN land safely above max landing weight and at maximum take-off weight. You are supposed to take care in the vertical rate of descent on touchdown (no shit!) but a maintenance write up is usually required and that's about it as long as nothing was damaged. Losing radar and radios is still not a reason for bouncing like that and forcing the nose over causing the gear to be pushed thru the fuel tanks in the wings and causing the fire. If anything, being heavy on landing would help to prevent a bounce in my humble opinion.
Time to enforce 0 Baggage on Board!