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To: servo1969

If this is the one that hit the tail in Ca. The pilots thought the auto throttle was on.


3 posted on 07/31/2013 10:05:05 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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Whether the autothrottles were on or not, it was pure negligence by the flight crew.


4 posted on 07/31/2013 10:14:08 PM PDT by zipper ("The Second Amendment IS my carry permit!" -- Ted Nugent)
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To: jyro

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.”


5 posted on 07/31/2013 10:17:32 PM PDT by servo1969
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