Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Are you suggesting that some other aircraft are capable of withstanding a similar impact without suffering structural deformation? What type(s) do you have in mind?
I can’t think of any. Not even anything built by Andrei Tupolev. Or
Illyushin.
As as an aside I took a 757 in to Funchal shortly after the Air Europe incident ( our airline stopped 757 operations in to there shortly thereafter). I wandered over to see how the Boeing field engineers ( lots of pens in shirt pockets, crew cuts, and, I suspect, had cut their teeth in ‘Nam) , were fixing it. Jacked up the aircraft by using a pit prop through the dv windows. Drifted the nose gear down and welded it down. Then welded the now deformed window back in to the frame and then an AE crew flew it back gear down ( think they retracted the mains not sure ) to Luton. Built like a brick ****house. As all things Boeing were back in the day.
However there are obviously limits. !! 😎😎😎