TriStars to fly again?
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It didn't have RB211s, it had JT9Ds... From what I remember, EMA seized it with a view to selling it on to recoup unpaid airport charges but, once it became apparent it was not going to fly again it was scrapped in situ as your images show, both engines were saved and kept in open storage which essentially scuppered what little chance there was of actually selling them on!
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Ultimately, it did not flare. Without trawling for the report, the Captain was doing a "senior officer" demo/training flight, the A/L selection was made close to the airfield and A/L functionality was never fully achieved or indicated. However, the aircraft was allowed to fly hands off to impact, on a CAT1 only ILS! Left wing false spar cracked, aircraft bounced/rolled into a non standard gear-down fully configured visual circuit and lost 4t fuel before landing.
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Aircrew manual warned against pushing the stick forward on a bounced landing - this is what the skipper did, all that did (with full flap) was stick the the spoilers further up (DLC) and much of the lift was dumped. The impact was horrendous.
I looked at that aircraft a few days later and, standing on the MLG tyre managed to put my whole arm in the cracked spar - hence the loss of so much fuel.
The aircraft was not set up correctly for autoland so flew straight into the ground as FLARE certainly wasn't armed as they'd done just about everything wrong.
Lord protect us from senior officers flying (standing by for incoming). Skipper was court-marshalled but the rest of the operating crew sat there and watched it happen - in my book, they were culpable too.
On Caledonian we autolanded Tristar and it was dead accurate, time after time.
I looked at that aircraft a few days later and, standing on the MLG tyre managed to put my whole arm in the cracked spar - hence the loss of so much fuel.
The aircraft was not set up correctly for autoland so flew straight into the ground as FLARE certainly wasn't armed as they'd done just about everything wrong.
Lord protect us from senior officers flying (standing by for incoming). Skipper was court-marshalled but the rest of the operating crew sat there and watched it happen - in my book, they were culpable too.
On Caledonian we autolanded Tristar and it was dead accurate, time after time.
NB, all from dim distant memory.