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Video: Red Air MD-82 catches fire in Miami after landing gear collapse
MIAMI, FLORIDA — A Red Air MD-82 with 126 passengers on board caught fire after landing at Miami International Airport on June 21 when the front landing gear collapsed. Three people had minor injuries during the incident. (www.airlinerwatch.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Looks to me from the video that someone put the gear up (instead of flaps or spoilers) on roll-out.
OK, I have to point out again what nobody is talking about. I do not see a gear collapse, the plane is level as it goes by the camera and there are NO SPARKS! It is going down the runway straight and true until the end. What I do see is the reverse thrust buckets are only partially deployed in the after shot. Accident damage? Maybe, but both reversers appear to be deployed the same. Is it possible the smoke we see is the pilots applying full brakes and or tires fighting engines in full thrust when the pilots believed they were in full reverse?
Interesting speculation, but we must wait for NTSB accident investigation announcements and final report to lay out time line of events and probable causes of this crash. This one should be relatively easy - all the wreckage including recorders is on dry land on the airport, there’s video, everyone survived and can be interviewed - but the process takes time.
Clearly your perception does not match reality! Here is a video from a security camera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dE8c2jKGsk
From time 00:02 until 00:05 you see the plane on the runway, with the left main gear collapsed, smoke and sparks issuing from beneath the left wing where the left main is located.
And this statement by the NTSB:
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA22FA132.aspx
"The airplane experienced a collapse of the left main landing gear during landing on Runway 9, departed the runway and came to rest in a grassy area between runway 9 and 30. A post-crash fire on the right side of the airplane followed the runway excursion."
And Blancolirio points out the fire on the right side was a result of hitting the glideslope antenna for runway 30, which you can see is wrapped around the right wing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JJWQCs4Kq0&t=201s
The reverse buckets appear partially deployed because they shut down the engines before retracting the reverse levers - and since they are hydraulically actuated, once engine power is lost, there is not enough hydraulic pressure to finish there retraction. IN fact in one video you can hear the engines spool down before the plane comes to rest - I imagine the pilot pulled both fuel cutoff levers the instant the plane hit the grass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dE8c2jKGsk
From time 00:02 until 00:05 you see the plane on the runway, with the left main gear collapsed, smoke and sparks issuing from beneath the left wing where the left main is located.
And this statement by the NTSB:
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA22FA132.aspx
"The airplane experienced a collapse of the left main landing gear during landing on Runway 9, departed the runway and came to rest in a grassy area between runway 9 and 30. A post-crash fire on the right side of the airplane followed the runway excursion."
And Blancolirio points out the fire on the right side was a result of hitting the glideslope antenna for runway 30, which you can see is wrapped around the right wing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JJWQCs4Kq0&t=201s
The reverse buckets appear partially deployed because they shut down the engines before retracting the reverse levers - and since they are hydraulically actuated, once engine power is lost, there is not enough hydraulic pressure to finish there retraction. IN fact in one video you can hear the engines spool down before the plane comes to rest - I imagine the pilot pulled both fuel cutoff levers the instant the plane hit the grass.
Hmmmmmmm - heck of a scenario....that is absolutely worth some checking...wow.....
I noticed the "buckets" are not fully open. Accident damage? Yet they are both in the same position. Is it possible the reverse thrust buckets never fully deployed and the smoke we see is the brakes and or tires fighting the engines?
And of course there's an idiot shooting video of the evacuation on his phone. I would have slapped it out of his hands.