Brand new Etihad A340-600 damaged in Toulouse; several wounded
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Originally Posted by 3REDS
Thats the best looking airbus I have ever seen!
There's a very good-looking 777 at LHR too.
I always wonder if indeed they end up as Coke cans, or whether the scrap alloy can be processed and re-used without being totally 'ruined' in processing.
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Also, the water and foam would have washed some of them away, making them difficult to see from the air. They were probably still identifiable on the ground.
Also there was not much water and foam on the left hand side of the a/c and if there actually was, it didn't wash any of the NLG marks …
Anyway, let’s assume the braking was too light to leave visible traces from the air, but then, you or anyone here, has still to comment on the early crab movement of the aircraft 120 meters away from the wall, and so with only 3 tires (all of them from the Right MLG) marking the ground ?
Physically impossible unless …

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I always wonder if indeed they end up as Coke cans, or whether the scrap alloy can be processed and re-used without being totally 'ruined' in processing.

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Association of Licensed Aircraft Engineers (ALAE) - Our Aircraft picture gallery
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Good picture quality, ain't seen pic 4/5 and before.
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Good picture quality, ain't seen pic 4/5 and before.

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G-YMMM
For information about the fate of G-YMMM see the last couple of pages of the "BA 38 777" thread. For those who are interested.... the latest shots of LHR on google earth show a the rather battered looking 777 sitting just to the north of the southern runway.
