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To: DUMBGRUNT

That’s 203 mph. Normally, a passenger jet aircraft such as this one (A320) lands at about 140 knots (161 mph).


7 posted on 05/28/2020 2:07:27 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman
That’s 203 mph. Normally, a passenger jet aircraft such as this one (A320) lands at about 140 knots (161 mph).

No one in the aviation world uses KPH as a measurement of speed.

It's either MPH or Knots.

KPH is being used here to sensationalize the headline. Naturally.

53 posted on 05/28/2020 4:44:14 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: Signalman
That’s 203 mph. Normally, a passenger jet aircraft such as this one (A320) lands at about 140 knots (161 mph).

Kinetic energy is a function of the square of the velocity. 203 mph squared is 41,209. 161 squared is 25921. This is 59% more energy than the normal landing speed if your numbers are correct. Even if he had his gear down he would have run off the end of the runway. I can not fathom nor understand the vast incompetence of this flight.

When the approach was going to Sh-t the first officer should have assumed command. He did not, and I suspect this is a cultural problem. In some societies in the Middle East and also the far east THE CAPTAIN IS GOD!

61 posted on 05/28/2020 8:31:29 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, old man, CONSTITUTION TO DIE FOR)
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