Sky Airlines Chile 737 near miss on landing
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So the Brits make their runways out of tarred Macadam? Hope they're not flying anything heavier than Apaches and 310s.
Frankly, the only people I know who call it "tarmac" are TV talking heads, nonpilot travel writers and every newspaper reporter in the world.
Frankly, the only people I know who call it "tarmac" are TV talking heads, nonpilot travel writers and every newspaper reporter in the world.
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Frankly, the only people I know who call it "tarmac" are TV talking heads, nonpilot travel writers and every newspaper reporter in the world.
What's more, I will continue to use the term as I see fit.
Moron ( Now thats a term I like)
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Is this real?
I don't understand: The video from within the cabin, and the video from the observation deck at the airport, both make it look as if it were the LEFT wing that struck the ground.
Yet the animation, and the photos of the damage, are of the right wing.
Are we looking at pictures from two separate incidents?
Yet the animation, and the photos of the damage, are of the right wing.
Are we looking at pictures from two separate incidents?
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...another case of pilots behind the wheel with marginal hand-flying skills.
don't understand: The video from within the cabin....make it look as if it were the LEFT wing that struck the ground.
Sun didn't look to me to be an issue; just before landing, it's at 2 O'clock on the cabin video
Just to be clear, my reading of that video is that the pilot was not on a stabilized straight-in approach, but in a continuous right bank/turn from ~1000' alt. all the way to the threshold, with a couple of moments of wings-level. The whole last minute before the runway appears (1:20-2:13 on the tape).
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Looks clear that was a pilot error but the question is: if was an unstable approach or just mist on final, why they didn't comeback for another approach instead of to divert to another airport? Just wait for a runway inspection and try again, much easy and safer than flying away with a damage on a wingtip! That's my opinion.
Re Glueball's comment "...another case of pilots behind the wheel with marginal hand-flying skills." The PF is over 50 with 25,000+ hrs, not likely to have accumulated that much time in Chile without most of it being hand-flying.
There's a clip on YouTube overlaying the view from the passenger video with a Google Earth image and showing the approximate angle at which the aircraft approached.
In the second clip, filmed by someone in the spectators' balcony, the horror at what they were seeing is very apparent. The very quick little "click" as the wing touched the ground certainly swung the aircraft around swiftly to starboard. Perhaps fortunate it was concrete it touched and not soft earth.
With mist rolling in, the sun in their faces (not just through the mist but reflecting off small bodies of water), not to mention having just scared themselves silly, no surprise that they went to a clearer alternate.
One thing noted in the passenger video was that the starboard leading edge slats did not retract entirely, at least by the end of the video. Jammed as a result of that wing's contact or just brought halfway up by choice?
There's a clip on YouTube overlaying the view from the passenger video with a Google Earth image and showing the approximate angle at which the aircraft approached.
In the second clip, filmed by someone in the spectators' balcony, the horror at what they were seeing is very apparent. The very quick little "click" as the wing touched the ground certainly swung the aircraft around swiftly to starboard. Perhaps fortunate it was concrete it touched and not soft earth.
With mist rolling in, the sun in their faces (not just through the mist but reflecting off small bodies of water), not to mention having just scared themselves silly, no surprise that they went to a clearer alternate.
One thing noted in the passenger video was that the starboard leading edge slats did not retract entirely, at least by the end of the video. Jammed as a result of that wing's contact or just brought halfway up by choice?
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F Y I...
English pilots will call it TARMAC
And the French call it the PISTE B T W
English pilots will call it TARMAC
And the French call it the PISTE B T W
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