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Plane overshoots runway in Congo
Plane misses runway in east Congo, landing in lava By PATRICE CITERA, Associated Press Writer Patrice Citera, Associated Press Writer – 56 mins ago KINSHASA, Congo – A U.N.-run radio station says a passenger plane overshot a runway in eastern Congo and landed in lava, injuring 20 people. Radio Okapi said the plane was flying from Kinshasa to Goma on Thursday and passengers had warned the crew that there were heavy clouds. One passenger told the station that the plane had landed in lava near Goma's airport. An official from the U.N. mission in Congo, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he does not have permission to speak with media, said there were 117 passengers aboard. They included the governor of North Kivu province, who was not hurt. In April 2008, a DC-9 crashed while failing to lift off from Goma's airport leaving at least 40 people dead. A 2002 volcanic eruption sent lava oozing onto Goma's runway. |
"and passengers had warned the crew that there were heavy clouds"
Isn't that a priceless piece of journalism? |
and passengers had warned the crew that there were heavy clouds |
German Spiegel reports it's a MD-80 of CAA, African Company.
How long is the runway at Goma? Thx |
Mount Nyiragongo is an active volcano not far from the Goma airport and the shores of Lake Kivu. That volcano has a long history of lava flows, often reeking havoc on the local population and their fields. The runway at Goma (FZNA) 18/36 is listed as 1,995 meters 6,545 feet long. Some time ago a lava flow took out the northern 1/3 or so of the runway. It has long cooled and solidified. The silly headline makes it sound like the plane ended up in a pool of molten lava, pure rubbish, as is most of the other statements.
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9Q-CAB ex AA MD-82..
Photos in the news section here: J.A.C.D.E.C. - Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre |
Quite
Over-run looks a bit bumpy----reasons?
(It should have been cleared...plenty of loco labour in Congo to remove the rocks...money probably spent on "better" things...) |
It's the Congolese version of EMAS, Erupted Material Arresting System.:}
BR, aerolearner |
That'll be back flying next week....
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At least the buckets were open
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Seems everyone is going green: African EMAS: Environmental Material Arresting System.
Besides, it worked as designed, did it not?? |
Any landing you can walk away from is a good one!
Nice to see one of the slides worked OK. |
S-N,I`ll bet you would not have used it if you`d seen the rocks at the bottom!!
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Looks like they were lucky that there was no post-impact fire.
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I was trying to post pictures of a plane that needed mass repairs prior to getting airborne again but I don't get the "manage attachment" opportunity. Is that because I haven't posted enough? Anyone know?
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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2666/...287c73f70a.jpg
Google Earth imagery showing the northern end of the airport which was cutoff / isolated ever since the eruption. |
Pic too big, Flaps will come down on you like a sack of hammers falling from a great height.
800x600 max |
Looks like that will buff right out.....be back flying next week :}:}:}
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Moving a lump of solidified lava that big would be a major engineering problem methinks. On Google Earth the available runway is 6,000 feet plus which, I guess, is still reasonably usable. The over-run though :yuk:
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http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/396369-plane-overshoots-runway-congo.html
Just Wonder What They Found On The Cvr !!!
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Pic too big, Flaps will come down on you like a sack of hammers falling from a great height. 800x600 max Will keep it in mind from now on :ok: |
"Just Wonder What They Found On The Cvr !!!"
CVR ...... Congo ....... having a laugh. |
The runway is not the best marked in the world - no TDZ markings would make it difficult to know whether the landing can be completed in the available length especially if vis is poor and the surface wet.
I have regularly seen these aircraft being stopped within 4500-5000ft of the threshold at places such as DCA and LGA if they touchdown at the correct point so I guess the 6500ft length here shouldn't have been an issue. |
Xeque Agreed. It would be easier to move the threshold back than get rid of solidified lava from an active volcano.
At the risk of sounding crazy, they might be better off pouring a new tarmac over this, along the lines of runaway emergency exits for 18-wheelers suffering from brake failure going down long steep inclines. Anything other than those boulders welded in place... In Hawaii, they abandon the road (or village) when a lava flow visits. Volcano National Park: The road: http://gallery.photo.net/photo/10241730-lg.jpg The road sign: http://gallery.photo.net/photo/10241710-lg.jpg |
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re Goma, Lava incursion and Operators
G'Day all; as far as I'm aware, local operators do fly in and out of Goma in various types of airframes, both fixed- and rotary-wing, but the UN will only operate rotary-wing due to the lava incursion - it's effectively reduced the previous available length by about a third. And as earlier-mentioned, lava's not all that easy to remove - most of the locals have adapted by building on top of it rather than trying to regain their original property.
And it is "that" place, after all, as far as local operators go ... |
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