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Old 6th Nov 2010, 05:52
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Gretchenfrage
 
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What about your maximum landing weight? Despite dumping fuel, they still lost 2 or 3 tyres.
You can land any aircraft at any weight. It's simply a matter of runway lenth (no problem in SIN) and structural damage (a thorough check must follow ovwhgt ldg).

Don't worry about blowing tyres, you do that with any high speed t/o abortion. Worry about how long will the wing keep me airborne, with such a damage!

This is a typical case where the failure seems doable at the first glance. Follow the lenthy sops and the even longer ECAM actions and you will be just fine, so says the manufacturor and the company. Once on ground and the whole damage assessed, the chilling awakening is that time might have been running out (memento SR111).

Two hours of dumping and ECAM handling appears to me as way too long for such a failure. Airbus and the companies sops might have to be rewritten for the big busses and big failures.
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