MyCargo 747 hard tail strike on take-off

[fdr]

Originally Posted by Fursty Ferret

You do realise that the flare happens at landing, right? Does throw the rest of your story into doubt.

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For flare read rotate if you prefer, a rapid increase in pitch attitude or whatever else floats your boat.
Date of tail scrape was 20 SEPT 2010, the tossing the ID date was 18 DEC 2010.

[etrang]

Originally Posted by fdr

For flare read rotate if you prefer, a rapid increase in pitch attitude or whatever else floats your boat.
Date of tail scrape was 20 SEPT 2010, the tossing the ID date was 18 DEC 2010.

Flare or rotate, takeoff or land, up or down, they're all interchangeable.

[fdr]

Originally Posted by etrang

Flare or rotate, takeoff or land, up or down, they're all interchangeable.

F.SQUARED is quite correct in the use of his terms, was at the end of a long day, and I regressed to being a chopper pilot when I can be. We call "Rotate"... so fair point to F.2.

[Sqwak7700]

Because I think there was another tail strike where indeed they did! Memory makes me think 777 though...

It was a Cathay A340 that did that. Flew all the way back to HKG.

SCMP article

[Danny104]

Singapore did it out of YMML and flew to SIN a few years ago but nothing like the AKL damage .