SEAWALL
# 144
" Coming in too low and slow and clipping the main gear on the seawall at the runway threshold ..."
Not yet the official report, but...
Just how frangible is the seawall at SFO ?
IIRC most runways do not have (or need) a seawall but tend to have a flat surface (which one ought not to land on).
Tidal and storm surges ? Someone more local must have information.
IF the aircraft had been "...Too slow..." then the rear fuselage would have hit a "solid ?" seawall, not one which might have been designed to collapse.
( In 1954 a Constellation hit the seawall at Kallang. I expect that there have been others, elsewhere.( Crew fatigue was a factor, then.) And a little earlier it was usual to have a rather primitive version of a PAPI set up for each night-flying detail when using just goose-neck flares.)
Last edited by Linktrained; 31st Jul 2013 at 17:11.