I quote a reaction made on the Aviation Herald
By Denti on Friday, Dec 21st 2012 23:13Z
Well, uncontained engine failure, two hydraulic systems gone, crew flying on direct law and of course no anti skid on landing, all that well above landing weight. Air Berlin is quite lucky to still have a few experienced flight crews that know how to handle a multiple malfunction situation without any injured passengers or crew.
Gentleman,
This comment more or less describes what happened and not the assumptions that were made here prior.
If you are a 330 driver, you really understand that this a severe emergency that Airbus considers as " very unlikely".
Well done to the well experienced "Air Berlin" pilots
To the Green poster who started the Topic: a bit off to conclude that the tire burst was due to a hard landing after an overweight landing with dual hydraulic failure and 1 eng out. To the Autoland fraction: you have a third Auto Pilot in the A330 I didn't know off who suddenly works with a Dual Hydr leaving you in Alternate law until you lower the landing gear?? We are talking about hand flying in a FBW aircraft that is missing some of its flight controls
on one engine.
Forget the Autoland stuff; you can't do one in Direct law and for sure not on a RNAV09 ( not to mention the offset 27) in the middle of the night.
As always. Please stop the false assumptions.
Well done to those pilots and the cabin crew. Experience does matter no matter what they say.