The Next Chinese Hull Loss

[The_Loner]

Move the doomsday clock up a minute or two.

There was a Spring Air flight that had a tailstrike and rolled a main gear in the mud at Xiamen, June 6th. Then China Eastern landed on a Nanning taxiway on June 17th. If that wasn't enough, another China Eastern flight overran a runway at Changzhi on June 19th.

Hmmm, what else? China Eastern and China Southern have blown escape slides over the past several days. It's like a cat using up its 9 lives all at once. Verily, verily, I declare it is like a drunken sailor spending his cash in a Bangkok cathouse.

The CAAC has responded with a "manage them until they bleed" initiative. Inspections galore, followed by superman jet-jock checkrides. If you can land with no hydraulics, one gear up, standby power, and a cargo fire, then you will surely not make a bad decision and crash.

You can't make this up - not even on acid. There are even pictures on Freeweibo, Wechat, and the Aviation Herald.

I forgot one - a flight landing in Wuhan rolled into the dirt while attempting to expedite off the runway June 25. Not enough guts or brains to fly first and accomodate ATC second...