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Old 22nd May 2020, 17:36
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Toryu
 
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I'd call BS on the bird-strike. The nacelles do look scraped - and #2 looks worse than #1 with damage externding farther forward, including the lower intake-ring.
It would be interesting to know if the rear fuselage got scraped, too. In any way, the scrape-damage overall seems fairly slight: The nacelles are just held in place by the lower latches and they seem to hold together quite well.
Maybe they really did just barely scrape the runway during a late G/A.


I think they couldn't have made the runway - they probably saw the runway rising in their line of sight and did what most people would do - pull the stick.
The area doesn't look too inviting for a dead-stick landing, so one couldn't really blame them for doing it, given the amount of options...
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