Air Senegal International Dash 8 crash

[canileb]

The airline's dash 8-300 went off the runway landing at Tambacounda at around midnight saturday. The plane is apparently a write-off but there were no injuries...

[Flying Mech]

So did it Crash Land or did it do a relatively normal African Landing and simply run off the end/side of the runway due to Brakes and/or Steering failure?

[canileb]

Ok. What exactly do you mean by "a relatively normal African Landing?"

[GULF69]

Canileb,

I think what FM is trying to say is that people in Africa are prone to hard landings... I'm sure he's just kidding (if he likes his knee caps) :-)

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[canileb]

Knee caps, skull and else!

;-)

[NTM]

did it do a relatively normal African Landing

What is that? Are they different from "other" normal landings?
I don't think he is kidding.

[fortuna76]

Thank you very much gentlemen in another fine lesson of how to insult other people. Did NOT enjoy that at all!

So does anyone like to maybe put in a few words about what happened with the plane. Did they overrun the runway. Was there a problem with the plane, and what were the conditions under which it crashed? Short or normal runway?

If you say it is a write off it must have been a bad one!

Thanks for the info

[Kalium Chloride]

ATI has a fairly detailed piece about it but I can't post it here.

[ettore]

Better a hard landing than a crash with funerals...

[RELAX]

A 'Good landing' is when you can walk away from the aircraft, and a 'very good one' is when you can use it again!