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Tu 154 emergency landing at Izhma (Komi)
Tu-154M plane was forced for blind emergency landing - because of electro and navi equipment malfunction, crew have no information about their location and fuel for only half an hour. Because of this they can't divert to Pechora, Ukhta, Vorkuta or Usinsk where there are more suitable runaway for this class. Our correspondet cites crew which named this landing "a miracle". Right after plane descended under low clouds near Izhmy, crew has noticed a bog in which it was impossible to land. After a turn the commander at first has seen an island on the river opposite to Izhmy, and only after that he has noticed the old runaway, used now as a helicopter platform.
http://www.bnkomi.ru/content/news/im...1/IMG_0707.JPG http://www.bnkomi.ru/content/news/im...1/IMG_0694.JPG © Photo N.Rochev - They said that was a miracle that they could land on this strip, with fuel remains for 10 minutes only. They walked this runaway, thanked her for rescue, - said БНКоми correspondent. The impact was damped by the young trees which have grown since the airport was closed. Because of electric malfunction, the plane couldn't brake on the 1200 meters runaway and overrun about 150-200 meters out in the wood. None of 72 passengers of DRU516 flight hasn't received even a scratch. The state commission will be created for the incident investigation and the plane has been sealed up by Office of Public Prosecutor till then. To rescue away the plane from Izhmy, it must be or cut in parts, or owners will decide to leave it where it is, crew members suppose. © Komi Business News Agency http://img.beta.rian.ru/images/27324/77/273247721.jpg http://img.beta.rian.ru/images/27324/57/273245756.jpg © Photo EMERCOM Komi |
Shame for you then it's not in Russian Noxegon, as I'm sure your Russian is absolutely perfect.
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Erm, want to say that again in English? |
On September 7 at 7:50 a.m. (Moscow time), a Tu-154 aircraft making the flight Polyarny - Moscow, made an emergency landing in the Komi republic. The landing was executed at the airport of village Izhma. The reason was the onboard equipment failure.
The Moscow-bound plane took off from Yakutia at 04:14 Moscow time. On board the ship there were 72 passengers, including three children and nine crew members: no one was hurt. The passengers have been housed in the building of the local district school and provided with meals. Four hours after the start of the flight, the commander of the crew because of the onboard power system failure took an extraordinary decision to make an emergency landing in the Komi republic, at the Izhma airport designed for military aircraft. The local takeoff runway because of its small size is usually used only by helicopters, so the aircraft had to roll out 100 meters beyond it. Airport Izhma is located 180 kilometers north of town Usinsk and is currently inoperative. According to the source, the authorities of the Komi republic will organize during the day the transportation of passengers from Izhma to Ukhta by helicopter Mi-8. At the moment, they are trying to contact airport Mirny, where the Tu-154 aircraft belongs. © bcmnews PS It's one of 6 AK Alrosa Tu154 planes |
Actually I was perfectly able to understand what was being said, with a bit of thought.
Looks like the pax and crew were *very* lucky to walk away from that! |
The good old metal.
This is when the 100 tons help to remain in one piece. :) |
The TU-154, particularly the undercarriage, looks very strong!
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A neat bit of flying it appears, and as said, the advantages of being in a brick-built *****.
I'll leave it to the 'popcorn eaters' to tear the crew apart. |
A neat bit of flying it appears, PS. Kulverstukas, I also understood your first post perfectly well. :) |
I improved it a bit :rolleyes:
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What is the good entry point for CRGE? I'm wondering if this is really worthwhile
Please also comment about it. |
http://img.beta.rian.ru/images/27324/77/273247721.jpg
....... and in the process of landing, created a road to get to the aircraft. Well done to the crew. PS. Kulverstukas, I also understood your first post perfectly well. http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...lies/smile.gif |
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PROMT - Free Online Translator and dictionary - English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Russian languages. [/off] From Aviaforum.ru - close call to 13/07/2006 UTAir 85806 incident - no DC power because of one battery inner shortage, which led to circut breakers switched by overload one after another and full discharge of all batteries. Crew: Novoselov Evgeny — 1P Lamakov (Lamanov) Andry — 2P Talalaev Serge — Nav Karimov Rafik - FE Cabin Crew: Dmitriev Nikolay Dmitrieva Elena Razumova Elena Vyrodov Vasily Nizamov Rifkat |
Fuel state?
Apologies for layman's question - from where Komi ASSR is, one can be excused to ask how were they supposed to make it to Moscow, with 30 minutes of fuel remaining?
Great to see such a perfect landing with no navaids whatsoever on a miraculously find airstrip:D |
Kulverstukas < I understood you quite well as well >. Thanks for posting this,
A toast of Vodka for the crew and even a bigger one for Mr Tupolev for having designed teh 154 like this. The outcome would have probably been different in a modern :" save all the weight you can " aircraft. |
I'm looking forward to the departure :cool:
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A short video:
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Built like a BAC 111!
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Normunds_k
Polyarny (ikao UERP iata PYJ) to DME (Domodedovo). 3934.10 km by Google. But I think they mean not fuel remaining, but that fuel pumps must stop in short time without power. |
Apologies for layman's question - from where Komi ASSR is, one can be excused to ask how were they supposed to make it to Moscow, with 30 minutes of fuel remaining? |
Lucky to have an over run area that flat and such continuous smooth retardation (very little to do with aircraft design). Typically it's the bumps that break the aircraft
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Agee lomapaseo, but compare the main landing gear assembly of a Tu154 with that of a 737 or a 320 and see which one has the most chances once in soft ground.
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I am surprised. And no loss of life. Lucky chaps.
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Flapless landing, no stab trim, on STDBY instruments, RW just 1200 meters...
Well done, greate job! |
A great result, showing very good piloting skills.:D
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Runway photo. Condition is not great but for low-ACN aircraft like TU154 looks managebale.
http://komionline.ru/media/images/20...samoizma04.jpg |
Still looks in better knick than a great deal of other russian aircraft still flying! |
Originally Posted by ATC Watcher
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Agee lomapaseo, but compare the main landing gear assembly of a Tu154 with that of a 737 or a 320 and see which one has the most chances once in soft ground.
So the modern landing gear comes off worse, but the result for the plane & those on board should be as good.if not better, which is what counts. |
Oddly enough this incident may have some common thread with the in-flight fire discussions on the UPS crash thread.
It would appear that this Captain, faced with a technical incident that he believed would make the aircraft unflyable in a fairly short period of time (fuel pumps stop delivering fuel to engines as I understand from another post?) took an executive decision to get it on the deck ASAP and take his chances with what might be available under the cloud.... |
With engines running, electric power presumably was present on the alternators output leads. Isn't continuous fuel supply one of very basic design requirements from survivability point of view.:confused:
With the multple-redundancy customary to design of any "vital system" on a commercial aircraft (Soviet or not), it's very hard to believe indeed that such total loss of electric power (when even fuel pumps are dead) while engines still actually running is possible on "certified hardware".. Was this "bort" overhauled, according to owner's wishes for "modern stuff" for passengers and/or "glass" in the cocpit, by any chance? Paintjob looked spanking-new in the photo, for example, which is not that common for a commercial TU-154 these days. Hydraulic "power" apparently was not affected, was it? Or do engines "pump" hydraulics directly in TU.. I know these questions are indeed stupid for aviation pro-s as no doubt majority of posters here are, but as they say where I happen to live currently, "miracles only happen in Efteling". And there seems to be more than one or even a couple of miracles in this story.. |
I have no comment to make about this video, i'm just bemused :ooh:
YouTube - ????????? ??????? ??-154 ? ????? /????/ ????? ???????? (For context, it's a passengers video of the planes 'evacuation') |
Truly astonishing. :eek:
Thanks for that Sam. |
Absolutely amazing. They seems all realy cool about the whole thing...
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No pax bus....
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Sam Bee, the emergency is not there anymore — the airplane is on the ground, the engines are shut down, there's no fire, no panic, nobody's hurt. The airport was not equipped with jet bridges or Dulles–style mobiles or even mobile stairs, and Tu-154 was not equipped with airstairs, so emergency slides had to be used for disembarkation. Also, there was not any kind of air train or moving walk or shuttle busses at that airport, so helicopters were used to shuttle the pax to connecting flights.
upd: well, ok, there were at least some pax busses… |
Built like the proverbial brick ****house. None of the overhead bins popped open. Amazing. People so nonplussed as if it was just another day at the office.
Several other passenger videos linked below the longer one mentioned above. An English language report from Russia here, including a description of what had failed: YouTube - Russia's 'Hudson miracle'? Pilots save 81 landing plane in Taiga forest |
I wasn't making any judgements or implications dvv - just thought it would be interesting, which it was, so no need to get defensive!
But correct me if i'm wrong, surely the priority once the plane got to a halt would have been to evacuate everyone immediately due to fire risk, leaking fuel...? Surely, just surely, this was taking 'casual' a bit too far. |
Yes re that previous video, perhaps the Russian SLF are used to not always arriving at their chosen destination. They all seem to have that look of "oh well, this time we're in a forest, better than last year when it was the ice tundra..."
You can see an injury from the expression on one of the passengers faces. It's the guy walking out of the terminal gate area after they've finally arrived at their eventual destination with a pained expression as the person behind him runs their trolly into his heel (ouch!) Congrats to the crew....good job. |
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