747 Cargolux emergency landing
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747 Cargolux emergency landing
A 747 Cargolux stuck on the runway at Findel Airport Luxembourg
few missing wheels on the main gear and hydraulic spillage
few missing wheels on the main gear and hydraulic spillage
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Good reminder around the dangers re loose objects which have the ability to be a missile as such. That gear would be at least 3T, those folks making the video will be lucky it wasn’t headed towards them.
Noted that on a airshow video recently. Aircraft misjudged a manoeuvre, came very close to the ground, wasn’t the aircraft as such that became the issue, was the loose objects on the ground afterwards which got swept up and became projectiles.
Noted that on a airshow video recently. Aircraft misjudged a manoeuvre, came very close to the ground, wasn’t the aircraft as such that became the issue, was the loose objects on the ground afterwards which got swept up and became projectiles.
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Stand well back?
It's easy to be smart after the event but surely we should not have any unnecessary vehicles or light aircraft at close-in holding points during a planned emergency landing involving 300+ tons of heavy metal? Just a thought for ATC? Revert to at least LoViz procedures? No aircraft or passenger bus would survive a collision with 3 or 4 tons of gear.
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Seems to me the torque links for that body gear broke/came undone during to T/O roll resulting in the bogey angle being out of what and preventing gear retraction and finally, severe truck shimmy and leaving the aircraft. Also a common defect with NLGs on many different aircraft types. Good job the 747 has four main gears!.
Seems to me the torque links for that body gear broke/came undone during to T/O roll resulting in the bogey angle being out of what and preventing gear retraction and finally, severe truck shimmy and leaving the aircraft. Also a common defect with NLGs on many different aircraft types. Good job the 747 has four main gears!.
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Looks like CLX the same aircraft had a heavy landing a few weeks back
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Thanks BFS Grad & hans brinker...
I stand corrected!
Thanks BFS Grad & hans brinker...
I stand corrected!
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Here are 2 incident reports which are worth reading.
The first is about an incident which concerned the very same aircraft and the very same right body gear back on January 21st, 2010.
The aircraft landed on a van.
This is very probably completely unrelated to the present incident, but the coincidence that it concerns the very same landing gear bogie is funny.
https://reports.aviation-safety.net/...744_LX-OCV.pdf
The second incident is a Virgin Atlantic aircraft.
The landing gear concerned is a wing gear but the sequence of events bears some similarities.
It can be noticed that the circumstances that permitted the mistake are still existing today.
https://assets.publishing.service.go...VROM_10-15.pdf
https://aerossurance.com/safety-mana...llation-error/
I bet that several people will have a very thorough look at the gear and gear door actuators of LX-OCV.
The first is about an incident which concerned the very same aircraft and the very same right body gear back on January 21st, 2010.
The aircraft landed on a van.
This is very probably completely unrelated to the present incident, but the coincidence that it concerns the very same landing gear bogie is funny.
https://reports.aviation-safety.net/...744_LX-OCV.pdf
The second incident is a Virgin Atlantic aircraft.
The landing gear concerned is a wing gear but the sequence of events bears some similarities.
It can be noticed that the circumstances that permitted the mistake are still existing today.
https://assets.publishing.service.go...VROM_10-15.pdf
https://aerossurance.com/safety-mana...llation-error/
I bet that several people will have a very thorough look at the gear and gear door actuators of LX-OCV.
The VS aircraft was a hydraulic problem. Having spoken to a B747-400 pilot who watched the same incident the comment was that the handling pilot had forgotten about the reduced elevator effectiveness in the flare due to the hydraulic failure. It also explained why only part of the undercarriage extended.