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Old 22nd Jun 2022, 17:39
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EXDAC
 
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Originally Posted by MichaelKPIT
Surprised this hasn't made it to these pages yet. Witnesses are saying a tyre burst on landing, the aircraft bounced and landed hard, collapsing the landing gear and causing a fire. CNN report here: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/us/mi...ire/index.html
The first MD-80, fuselage 909, experienced a landing hard enough for the tail to depart. The gear did not collapse.

Going backwards off the runway and into soft sand will take out the gear. That was demonstrated by fuselage 917.

What did they do to this one?

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