Spanair accident at Madrid
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What will happen now at Spanair??
Will they carry on immediately or suspend all services.
Or will it depend on the SAS Group's decision.
What will happen to tomorrows flights??
Will they carry on immediately or suspend all services.
Or will it depend on the SAS Group's decision.
What will happen to tomorrows flights??
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Yep, from some unreliable tabloid called The Times:
Spanair pilots threatened strike an hour before crash - Times Online
From The Times
August 21, 2008
Spanair pilots threatened strike an hour before crash
Carl Mortished, World Business Editor
Pilots at Spanair had threatened to go on strike only an hour before yesterday’s crash.
Threatened with job cuts, they had accused the carrier – which has run up large losses for its parent, the Scandinavian airline SAS – of “organised chaos” and failing to have a proper business plan...
August 21, 2008
Spanair pilots threatened strike an hour before crash
Carl Mortished, World Business Editor
Pilots at Spanair had threatened to go on strike only an hour before yesterday’s crash.
Threatened with job cuts, they had accused the carrier – which has run up large losses for its parent, the Scandinavian airline SAS – of “organised chaos” and failing to have a proper business plan...
Assymetric thrust.
Would an assymetric thrust reverser on engines so close to the normal thrust line, cause such a swing ? Dunno, but it isn't like being an outboard engine on a 747.
Would an assymetric thrust reverser on engines so close to the normal thrust line, cause such a swing ? Dunno, but it isn't like being an outboard engine on a 747.
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Would an assymetric thrust reverser on engines so close to the normal thrust line, cause such a swing ? Dunno, but it isn't like being an outboard engine on a 747.
They may look like they are close but you will use a full leg of rudder on the -80 with an engine failure. As for the 747, look at the size of the vertical fin and the rudder.
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Survivors
as a veteran SLF, would like to know where the survivors were sitting - instinctively would assume in the front as MD engines are in the back
Reuters 10.14pm tonight
Survivors were flung from the plane by the force of the impact and landed in a stream, saving them from more severe burns, Corral said.
Reuters 10.14pm tonight
Survivors were flung from the plane by the force of the impact and landed in a stream, saving them from more severe burns, Corral said.
In the 1978 Toronto overrun accident, the runway is now 9697' and the a/c stopped at the bottom of the ravine with a good portion on the slope as did AF358. I had a good look at both hulls.
El Mundo's diagram shows 4.35 km from the end of the runway to the debris which is about 14,300' which leads me to suspect the a/c was in the air for a short distance.
El Mundo's diagram shows 4.35 km from the end of the runway to the debris which is about 14,300' which leads me to suspect the a/c was in the air for a short distance.
RatherBeFlying;
A minor correction if I may - aside from there being only one parallel runway on the south, (there are two on the south side and one on the north side now, and AF358 was on the south parallel of the two, the DC9 was on the original parallel which is now the north parallel of the two), in 1978 the ravine had a much sharper "cliff" edge to it. The aircraft left the grass surface at about 54kts, "flew" over the cliff edge and pancaked, breaking the fuselage in two places. The wings remained intact. Two passengers died, one who was not wearing his seatbelt. The ravine was later "filled in" so to speak, in the form of a sloped surface - still a deep ravine with a stream but not an abrupt cliff. The north parallel has the same overrun feature.
AF358 missed (short by about 30ft) the large cement pillars upon which the approach lights to 06R are mounted - so much for "frangible" towers...
In the 1978 Toronto overrun accident, the runway is now 9697' and the a/c stopped at the bottom of the ravine with a good portion on the slope as did AF358.
AF358 missed (short by about 30ft) the large cement pillars upon which the approach lights to 06R are mounted - so much for "frangible" towers...
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Strike Issue
I don't see how any strike issue could have anything to do with this. Such speculation is pure absurdity and I am surprised at such statements on this forum anyway.
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Look at this photo of the tailplane, to me it appears there is damage
to the forward leading edge while the opposite appears to be less so...
Plane Crash in Madrid Leaves 153 Dead
Obviously it was torn off in the impact. It appears to be facing the
opposite way it would be on the aircraft..
to the forward leading edge while the opposite appears to be less so...
Plane Crash in Madrid Leaves 153 Dead
Obviously it was torn off in the impact. It appears to be facing the
opposite way it would be on the aircraft..
Look at this photo of the tailplane, to me it appears there is damageto the forward leading edge while the opposite appears to be less so...
Plane Crash in Madrid Leaves 153 Dead
Obviously it was torn off in the impact. It appears to be facing the
opposite way it would be on the aircraft..
Plane Crash in Madrid Leaves 153 Dead
Obviously it was torn off in the impact. It appears to be facing the
opposite way it would be on the aircraft..
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I think the word you are looking for is "taste" not censored.
I have two questions. Early reports said the fire brigade could not get to the site quickly because the crash set the dry grass on fire. Surely this needs sorting IF true. As a layman I thought the idea of the fast response tenders was they could get to the site and try and keep the blazing side under control while escape was out the other.
Secondly what is the history of rear engined crashes like this compared with under wing engined aircraft. In a crash of this sort of level would the engines being right next to the fuselage be worse with fire breaking out?
I have two questions. Early reports said the fire brigade could not get to the site quickly because the crash set the dry grass on fire. Surely this needs sorting IF true. As a layman I thought the idea of the fast response tenders was they could get to the site and try and keep the blazing side under control while escape was out the other.
Secondly what is the history of rear engined crashes like this compared with under wing engined aircraft. In a crash of this sort of level would the engines being right next to the fuselage be worse with fire breaking out?
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RH Thrust Reverser????
Speculation, and potentially apples and oranges. I fly a similar type, and an open thrust reverser has been demonstrated to me in the sim. Very violent procedure, and the aircraft will yaw, and reduce speed at a stagering rate until the engine is shut down (if its identified as such). An F100 did come to a similar end i think with TAM a while ago with this sinario. I wonder if the apparent fire from the left engine was an overspeed to compensate from a reverser on the right.
Speculation, and the investigation will show, but just sharing what I know from a similar type.
Condolences to all involved and to the operation.
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Speculation, and the investigation will show, but just sharing what I know from a similar type.
Condolences to all involved and to the operation.
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