PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - MK Airlines B747 crash at Halifax
View Single Post
Old 3rd Dec 2004, 22:18
  #566 (permalink)  
broadreach
 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Scotland
Age: 79
Posts: 807
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
RbF,

Just looked at Hobie's posting of the side view of an MK 747 departing and from that it would seem the gear all retracts at once, not "outboard first, then inboard". And that the outboard gear aligns its "dangle" close to the well rather than prior to the folding-inward motion. So the thought I threw out earlier re an attempt at gear retraction is probably off base.

The only other thought that occurs is that the outboard gear is designed to compress more easily; it's the first to touch the ground on landing and the last to leave the runway. Could it be that the outboard gear actually did ride up the berm but, more easily compressed, without leaving marks discernible in that low-resolution photo?

If the outboard gear didn't touch the berm at all it's back to AoA.
broadreach is offline