View Full Version : Preliminary Kalitta BRU crash report
As released by Belgian authorities.
http://www.mobilit.fgov.be/data/aero/AA-2008-13.pdf
(The loud bang the report mentions is said to be due to bird ingestion, which would have been confirmed by DNA analysis of remnants found in #3).
GlueBall
23rd Dec 2008, 04:22
No doubt, reverse thrust would have helped getting stopped sooner. Pulling the reverse levers should have been an instinctive [non memory] reaction, as usually practiced in the sim.
No mention if RTO auto brake setting was used.
Says they rejected at or about V1....
Some other tidbits I just found out that were released at the press conference (don't know why it wasn't in the report).
-The loud bang was heard 4 seconds after V1.
-Take-off parameters were calculated on full use of runway but take-off roll began 300 meters off.
Coquelet
23rd Dec 2008, 13:59
The preliminary report has been issued on 2 june... the other news have been released yesterday by the newspapers.
In French :
Un faucon a provoqué le crash du Boeing à Zaventem - lesoir.be (http://www.lesoir.be/actualite/belgique/un-faucon-a-provoque-le-crash-2008-12-22-676222.shtml)
Engine n° 3 ingested a falcon; the pilot then elected to abandon take-off in spite of V1 having been passed six seconds earlier.
Post-V1 abort after bird-strike destroyed Kalitta 747F (http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/12/23/320500/post-v1-abort-after-bird-strike-destroyed-kalitta-747f.html)