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Posted on 07/31/2013 9:56:21 PM PDT by servo1969
Here are some really good photos of the crashed Boeing 777 known as Asiana Flight 214.
These include pics of the interior, exterior, landing gear, engines, and removal and loading process.
Tom servo, I’m glad I don’t need to worry about bw.
If this is the one that hit the tail in Ca. The pilots thought the auto throttle was on.
Whether the autothrottles were on or not, it was pure negligence by the flight crew.
Yes, this is the plane that caught its tail on the seawall while attempting to land at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, 2013.
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“On July 6, 2013, Flight 214 took off from Incheon International Airport (ICN) outside Seoul at 5:04 p.m. KST (08:04 UTC), 34 minutes after its scheduled departure time. It was scheduled to land at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) at 11:04 a.m. PDT (18:04 UTC).
The flight was cleared for a visual approach to runway 28L at 11:21 a.m. PDT, and told to maintain a speed of 180 knots until the aircraft was five miles from the runway. At 11:26 a.m., Northern California TRACON (”NorCal Approach”) passed air traffic control to the San Francisco tower. A tower controller acknowledged the second call from the crew at 11:27 a.m. when the plane was 1.5 miles away, and gave clearance to land.
The weather was very good; the latest METAR reported light wind, 10 miles (16 km) visibility (the maximum it can report), no precipitation, and no forecast or reports of wind shear. The pilots performed a visual approach assisted by the runway’s precision approach path indicator (PAPI).
At 11:28 a.m., HL7742 crashed short of runway 28L’s threshold. The landing gear and then the tail struck the seawall that projects into San Francisco Bay. Both engines and the tail section separated from the aircraft. The NTSB noted that the main landing gear, the first part of the aircraft to hit the seawall, “separated cleanly from [the] aircraft as designed”. The vertical and both horizontal stabilizers fell on the runway before the threshold.
The remainder of the fuselage and wings rotated (yawed) counter-clockwise 330 degrees as it slid westward. Video showed it pivoting about a wing and the nose while sharply inclined to the ground. It came to rest to the left of the runway, 2,400 feet (730 m) from the initial point of impact at the seawall.”
Yep. That’s all the proof anybody could ever want of anthropogenic global warming. Settled science, all right.
Boeing built tough.If that was an airbust I believe it would have shattered in a million pieces.
Is there a pic of Captain Som Ting Wong?
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It’s a miracle anybody walked away, imho.
40 years ago (07/31/73) I lost my grandparents in a Delta crash at Logan. I think about them, and everyone else whenever I fly.
Given how hard it smacked down, heeled up, smacked down again and slid, it looks to be in pretty good shape.
thanks for posting
Was he flying coach or first class?
I’m sorry for your loss.
Boeing and Airbus use the same materials and design. The difference in controls and minor details.
ping
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