Hard Landing In SFB
 

I hear a Monarch A330 requires an undercarriage change after a heavy landing in SFB this weekend?
Can anyone confirm this?

Tis true, and right after a certain article mentioned how reliable the MON 330 fleet was.

I'm told both main gear legs may need replacing.

Yup, looks like the a/c is gonna be out of it for 4 weeks!! :\

Nothing wrong with the a/c.:E

That must have been one hell of a landing. Was there any wrinkling
of the fuselage involved also?

My sources tell me that the a/c has been given dispensation to make one flight back to a base where maintenance can be carried out. Apparently there is no restriction on the carriage of passengers so it may not be as bad as first thought. On its way back to Manchester as I write.

Anyone know what the weather was at the time of the hard landing?

Looks like the A330 is prone to hard and heavy landings. A Korean Air A330 hit somehing like 2.3gs at ZRH and the skipper( expat ) was sacked. Also herd that Korean had many heavy landings on the 744 as well.

Goodness. Is anyone allowed to post absolute rubbish here with no filtering at all?

No wonder most of us have left.

The A330 may be landed easily (excluding special factors, such as local weather, which affect all aircraft).

Rubbish.
 

Above thread is a joke. Surely. No aviators there. Fantom excluded from my criticism.

Bet when IM hears about this in the morning he will regret having jinxed the aircraft.

The auto thrust on the A330 has a habit of bringing the power back to idle on the approach if slightly fast and then never spooling up again-Crunch every time if this happens at low level

Just out of interest, doesn't Airbus FBW have some kind of envelope protection from a heavy landing?

No.If you try and phase advance the thrust levers below 100ft Ra you really are asking for trouble.As soon as you get close to vls drag increases quickly.Alpha floor/prot is inhbited below 100ft as well so you are basically on your own

:rolleyes:

TL - Initial reaction was to say what a load of "shoemakers". However, I shall just say that if you sat in my A330 and just accepted anything below 100' you would not be getting another sector as PF with me. You CAN advance the thrust levers below 100' you just have to remember that YOU now have control of the thrust and need to bring it back as if in manual thrust NOT to the CLB detent. Otherwise you are going around!

As my first instructor said FLY the F*****G aircraft.

Well, after all that...

Maybe we should be clear on what exactly is the difference between a "hard" and "heavy" landing, since they are quite different animals!

One refers to the rate of descent at touchdown, and one refers to the AUW of the airplane at touchdown.

Now I wonder which is which here....

Cheers...FD :ugh:

londonmet,

The aircraft routed Newcastle - Sanford (G-SMAN/ZB365).

HTH,
Sam

Electric jet jock- Go around every time then otherwise you completely destabilise the approach.This phenomenon usually appears in calm weather.I saw it happen going into an Indian airfield near the coast at around 60ft RA.Wind shifted as we crossed the coast,aircraft accelerated and power comes back never to spool up again.At least with the A330 it tells you in seconds your crunch score.

Any verfication that it really did damage the under carriage and not the fuselage?

I was under the impression that hard landings (vertical G's) damaged the fuselage before the gear struts.

I understand at this time no damage has been found on any part of the aircraft.
However at this time Airbus say that both Main landing gears have to be changed.
More information from Mon to Airbus is being supplied and more information from Airbus on the reasons for removal of said gear is being requested.
Which part of above thread do both Fantom & RoyHudd find Rubbish or a Joke?