PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Spanair accident at Madrid
View Single Post
Old 27th Aug 2008, 18:03
  #1082 (permalink)  
Avionero
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Vienna
Age: 40
Posts: 29
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
I donīt think that this is possible. The tail is a lot closer to the main gear, so the plane would have to drift a LOT more than if it had been the nose wheel (what we also donīt know for sure). So the 7° mentioned before for the nose wheel would be some 30°-40° for the tail (just a wild guess), which would bring the main gear tracks closer together.

I tend to think that the straight line stems from the nose wheel, what is not completely consistent with that however is, that a drift of the airframe should bring the main wheel tracks closer together (which might be lost in the angle of the photo).
Avionero is offline