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Old 21st Dec 2007, 00:20
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SIUYA
 
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virgindriver and DirectAnywhere..........

Roll angle for a podstrike is as you say, dependent on the variables quoted, but podstrike can also occur at a less than anticipated podstrike roll angle vs. weight if the landing is..........ummm........'firm', and there's wing 'flex' as a consequence. It's happened before, and it'll happen again.

In fact, wingtip strikes are even known to have happened when at the same time the associated wingpod engine(s) has escaped 'unstruck' so to speak! Seem to recall an Asian carrier had it happen on a 737 a few years back. Crew were unaware that a tipstrike had occurred on landing until a somewhat less-than-impressed passenger told the CAs as he was disembarking that he'd seen bits coming off the wing tip as the aircraft touched down.
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