Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
Agee lomapaseo, but compare the main landing gear assembly of a Tu154 with that of a 737 or a 320 and see which one has the most chances once in soft ground.
In soft ground the modern landing gear is designed to shear off backwards and the a/c will then carry on on belly / engines. The BA38 crash showed this in action.(although with more wing damage than perhaps should have been - but ROD may have been higher than design for this scenario).
So the modern landing gear comes off worse, but the result for the plane & those on board should be as good.if not better, which is what counts.