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Old 18th Apr 2023, 01:56
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Originally Posted by Akrep
As a contributing factor, rwy 06 in LUX has a pretty nasty upslope untill middle of the runway.
on the video it may look like a normal flare and nose position for the landing but that runway is comming up faster then usual.

From my experience landing on rwy 06 ,once the Radio altimeter start ls counting down from 30 feet onwards you have to flare as if you want to cause a tailstrike to have a normal touchdown 🫣
Roughly ten years ago, Cargolux had a really hard landing of a fairly new 747-8F - supposedly upwards of 2.5g. Did so much damage they considered scraping the aircraft (reportedly cost over $100 million to repair). I never heard the story behind it - but that funny upslope might explain why it happened...
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