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Old 19th Aug 2019, 14:26
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Originally Posted by casablanca
Wonder if just a hard landing or touched down on the nose gear? Sometimes at low weights Boeing’s seem to land pretty flat making that a threat I guess
Looking at 777 performance charts and the pitch attitude difference is approx. 0.5 degrees between light and heavy weights. Striking the nose gear first doesn't occur because of a 0.5 pitch difference on final.
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