Boeing 777 Saudi Airlines plane lands with damaged wing..old news?

[holyflurkingschmitt]

Excuse me if this has already been covered somewhere but i've just come accross this video of a Saudi 777 with an apparantly damaged wing and leaking hydraulic fluid:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=70d_1205377058

[lomapaseo]

Not a good thing.

I'll be anxious to hear more.

[4HolerPoler]

Happened a few days ago - great footage.

Appears to be a debonding issue between flap drive hardware and composite structures. Boeing & the NTSB are on their way down. To establish the facts, blur responsibility and protect US business interests.

4HP

[rotornut]

Not a word of it on the Boeing website although the Southwest problem has been addressed there.

[Check Airman]

Looks really bad. It looks like it may well have been a hydraulic hydraulic problem as suggested earlier, since one of the spoiler panels remained up.

[Farrell]

Nice video.

Did the hole go all the way through or just topside separation.

I had my money on ingestion of something. Oh well.

[Austrian Simon]

As far as I can see from available information and flight data, this incident most likely concerned SV1020 from Jeddah to Riyadh on March 10th 2008. The B777-200 was taken out of service and the remaining sectors of the day flown with a B747-300.

The author of the video wrote, that the hole appeared about 900 meters above ground with a loud bang.

The video is available on youtube, too, where the author has left the more detailed description of the incident:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJEwBXXbr8

Servus, Simon

[777fly]

Since the problem appeared 'at about 900m with a loud bang', it's a fair bet that part of the main gear cross bracing suffered a failure and was forced upwards through the rear wing structure. In the video the flaperon/flap and spoiler operation appears normal, although there is obviously some hydraulic line fracture and/or leakage. Maybe the flight was lucky not to have had a gear collapse on touchdown.

[Arctaurus]

Yes - It does seem it's part of the right gear through the wing. Ouch !!

[Xorthis]

If you look near the end at 1:35 you can see that panel has gone back down again.

[The Bartender]

No, the single panel is extended throughout the entire video. Look towards the top of the video....

Spoiler #9 is already up when the video starts, and at touchdown (00:16) spoilers #7 and #11 pop up.

At 00:50 #7 and #11 are stowed, leaving the single #9 still extended...

Spoilers #8, #10, and #12 remain stowed throughout the entire video...:ouch:

[lamer]

so the hydaulic pressure goes and spoiler goes up and stays there? :ooh:

[Tallbloke]

I wonder why this incident has been pulled from Flight International / flightglobal.com? In my IE history I find http://http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/03/17/222268/video.html and http://http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/03/20/222329/boeing-investigates-as-landing-saudi-777-suffers-wing.html but when I visit flightglobal 4 hours after I saw these articles I find nix. Advertiser got the hump did he?

[lazy george]

Can anyone translate what the pilot is saying? just out of curiosity

[gazbert]

Tallbloke, you've got two lots of http:// in those URLs, if you click on these two they should work for you.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/03/17/222268/video.html

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/03/20/222329/boeing-investigates-as-landing-saudi-777-suffers-wing.html