Posted on 11/14/2020 8:23:22 AM PST by WhoisAlanGreenspan?
An Antonov An-124 Ruslan (NATO reporting name: Condor), belonging to Volga-Dnepr Airlines, an airline based in Ulyanovsk, Russia, and specialized in air charter services, with 14 people on board, overran the end of the runway at Novosibirsk, Russia, on Nov. 13, 2020.
The aircraft, registration RA-82042, experienced what has been reported as an uncontained engine failure during the initial climb after take off from RWY 25 at Novosibirisk. The crew returned for an emergency landing on the same runway and performed a successful and seemingly normal touchdown but did not manage to stop the landing roll (the aircraft was loaded with fuel and probably the breaking action, if available following the failure, could not be used to slow down the heavy plane): the aircraft went off the tarmac by about 200 meters.
No one was injured but the aircraft was heavily damaged.
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Months or maybe a year after that I found out Antonov was flying a heavy generator part for the Ford Rouge Plant which needed repair.
There's more info and pics at The Daily Mail
You gotta hand it to the Rooskies. When they go big they really go big. I saw one of these monsters once. It was incredible.
Been one, on the ground. Shipping Patriot ground equipment (radar and engagement control station) from Dover NH to Riyadh. They make an impressive sight landing.
Whoahhhhh... that is a “clean your pants out after landing” landing!! Thank God they could control the aircraft!
Lockheed C-5A capacity 127.5 tons
Antonov AN-124 capacity 150 tons
Antonov AN-225 capacity 250 tons - now that is big!
Yep. Looks like scrap metal and some spare parts to me.
I’m glad the crew was okay.
That thing can carry an incredible amount of weight.
Isn’t it interesting that “air” can hold so much?
I've had the privilege of seeing these massive machines on a couple of navy bases. I saw one land. It seemed like I was watching it approach forever. It just kept getting bigger and bigger. The U.S. Navy leases them from time to time to move stuff that the C-5 Galaxy can't.
Yep. It's done. Its airframe will never again be flightworthy.
I rode one of these into Iraq, there are 2 upper deck areas, one for the crew helpers the other for the pilots. 22 hours from AZ to Bashra.
I had some fun ITARS interviews over that.
Congratulations to the crew - excellent job of piloting! Try to imagine an emergency landing missing that much of your electronics.... Damn.
Hard to imagine the airframe damage after seeing that last photo.
The apparent failure of braking to stop the plane with a full load of fuel. I wonder if they’d ever tested it for that possibility? Reminds me of following the videos of Boeing during the design, build and testing of the 777. Alan Mullally was the head honcho of the project. One of the final tests was to load the craft with max cargo, plus the equivalent of a full fuel load, and then do an “emergency” landing with full brakes and thrust reversers. When it came to a stop, the brakes were on fire and the landing gear would need some work, but it stayed on the runway. (Mullally later was recruited by Ford to turn around THEIR lagging fortunes, which he did, sorta).
Did the Ruskies ever test for that? Maybe they didn’t want to know...but NOW they know. BTW: What IS an uncontained engine failure? That it blew the cowling off and scattered parts all over the south 40?
I used to watch these guys as they flew in and out of Boeing field Seattle.
They rum their engines for about 5 minutes at the end of the runway, at full throttle to get them up to temperature before taking off. It seems they have a problem with compressor stalls A.K.A. surges. if you have ever seen a surge they are very spectacular. The can also destroy an engine very quickly.
I wonder if the pilot got in a bit of a hurry that day.
“Uncontained” means the turbine or fan blades broke through the structural engine housing that is meant to contain those parts if they break off the rotor. They exit at high velocity with a lot of energy and do a lot of damage to wings, fuselage, and controls.
The aircraft has a massive engine failure on takeoff and returns for an emergency landing. Watch the video and you see NO emergency vehicles waiting along the runway and adjacent taxiways. After the plane overruns the runway, it takes quite a while for vehicles to begin heading toward the aircraft and I don’t see any emergency vehicles or firefighting apparatus. That seems very odd.
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