PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Indonesian B737 runway overrun/crash
View Single Post
Old 8th Mar 2007, 01:35
  #82 (permalink)  
StudentInDebt
 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Mycenae
Posts: 506
Received 14 Likes on 7 Posts
I may be missing something but I didn't notice any escape slides from the forward and aft doors.
I think the slides need to drop a certain distance before they will inflate, it looks like the gear has separated so I imagine the drop wasn't sufficient and the passengers would have been able to step off the aircraft into the field. From memory this sort of thing has happened a few times in the past with overruns.
StudentInDebt is offline