View Full Version : Melbourne - It's not just EK
helen-damnation
20th Sep 2009, 17:42
Air Accidents Investigation: Boeing 767-39H, G-OOAN (http://www.aaib.gov.uk/publications/bulletins/july_2009/boeing_767_39h__g_ooan.cfm)
Was pointed to this by a friend who found it.
linedriva
20th Sep 2009, 18:28
Your incident was at Manchester, UK. A long way from Melbourne. Having said that EK were not the first airline to drag the tail.
PorkKnuckle
20th Sep 2009, 18:57
I know what you meant, Helen.
Btw there had already been cases of ZFW entered into the calculator instead of TOW at EK too. But not an a ULR flight.
haughtney1
21st Sep 2009, 17:45
Or this
Boeing 747-412 9V-SMT, flight SQ286, tail strike during take-off, Auckland International Airport, 12 March 2003
(http://www.taic.org.nz/ReportsandSafetyRecs/AviationReports/tabid/78/ctl/Detail/mid/482/InvNumber/2003-003/Page/4/language/en-US/Default.aspx?SkinSrc=[G]skins%2ftaicAviation%2fskin_aviation)
Its happened plenty of times