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Old 30th Dec 2012, 10:43
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Ditch or no ditch there is at least 200 m of rough terrain (with added friction) before you get there. Judging by the speed that the wreakage hits the car the aircraft must still have been travelling at one hell of a speed when it left the paved surface.

A completely empty aircraft can usually be stopped well within 1000m so this strikes me as something a bit more than a deep landing.

Edit: The photo above is (according to translation from the website where it is posted) taken from a point 350m from the threshold at which point the plane is 10-15m high. This is a height that the plane would normally be at the threshold which would normally result in touchdown 300-400m in. So at very worst here the touchdown would be some 700-800m in. This would still allow 2000m plus to stop the aircraft. Something doesn't quite add up.

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