Posted on 07/19/2007 8:28:18 PM PDT by gpapa
SÃO PAULO, Brazil - Officials struggled Thursday to determine why a jetliner raced down a runway before crashing in a fireball that killed at least 189 people — an accident that set off a fierce debate over whether to close Brazil's busiest airport.
Security video released by the air force showed TAM Flight 3054 from Porto Alegre speeding down the tarmac more than four times as fast as other planes landing around the same time.
The Airbus-320 skidded off the main runway in a heavy rain, jumped over a highway and slammed into a building Tuesday night, killing all 186 people aboard and at least three people on the ground.
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Um, isn’t that what an airplane is supposed to do ?
They got lost and thought they’d made it into California. In the mad rush to get to the ground and become citizens the plane lost control. Duh.
Oh sorry. This is one of those threads where jokes aren’t allowed.
If the cockpit tape has someone yelling ‘Allah Akbar!’ I’m gonna be looking real hard at the liberals in this country.
Real hard.
Not four times the speed of the other planes landing.
If it was on purpose they would of hit something more important than a warehouse.
my bet is he was drunk and forgot to brake
It sounds as if the pilot had a seizure or something, and instead of braking and reversing the engines he managed to speed up instead. It certainly seems like more than just hydroplaning on the wet runway.
I don’t know if the co-pilot would have time to intervene in such a situation.
HAHA! LOL!
Not when you’re landing.
Sounds like no reverse thrust or those big flaps for landing or those things on top of the wing that come out after landing to hold the plane down. (forgive my lack of proper terminology.)
You got a point there.
You’re starting to remind me of Stephen Stucker. ;-)
I think he may have realized too late that he was in deep stuff and accelerated to try to lift off.
The way I hear it, the pilot was probably trying to take off again... At that airport, if you don’t land early your supposed to try and get off the ground again.
The recorders will tell the full story.
Maybe the pilot decided to try and take back off for some reason?
If he came in at 4 times the speed of norman planes, he’d have to touched down at about 400 mph. I think a normal jetlines corsses the fence about 120 knots.
Concur. Looks like he touched down long (ie., down the runway as opposed to the end where the numbers are) and attempted to rotate again.
Just wasn't enough enough time for the engines to spool back up to get the airspeed back.
JMO, of course....
After you've read up on Egypt Air flight 990, see if you don't reconsider your position.
In order to get airborne, you see...
never mind
It was pouring rain, the drainage from the runway was poor, the runway is very short and the pilot tried to stop, but in vain. Having landed and taken off many times as a passenger from that airport (Congonhas), including a number of aborted landings due to pilot failure to hit in the first 1000 feet, I do not blame the pilot, but the runway length and the weather. There have been many crashes there. This was the worst. It’s the scariest airport I’ve ever seen, where planes land and take off, flying very close to tall buildings, not to mention the sight of the short runway when your are landing there.
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