The Russians loved to steal our designs.
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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It’s the Russians. What do you expect?
Starboard engine looks OK, port not so much.
Iconic (ironic ?) that the Russian heavy lifter was used to carry a US missile system from the US to an Arabic country.
A flat, straight, skidding landing like this on a smooth snow-covered surface (after the front landing gear failure) is about the “easiest” crash landing possible. They can probably rebuild the wing and engine strut. Sheetmetal banging.
“It’s the Russians. What do you expect?”
Da, if there’s survivors we’ll get around to it.”
I thought I had seen big when a 380 flew over my house on the way to the Orlando airport. But a couple of weeks ago one of those Antonov planes made the 380 look like a 737.
LOL...doesn’t it make a difference if you are sitting in the pilot’s seat or looking at it head-on?
It’s the pilot’s point of view that counts.
Looks like a good landing to me...everybody walked away.
The dreaded five-engine landing.
I'm guessing some very large heavy scientific payload was involved... that's an old 'non-existent' research city, right?
The 124 is a 4 engine plane. The 225 is the 6 engine aircraft.
Looking at the shots in 16,17, & 18 I can (in my head) hear Yosemite Sam shouting “WHOA MULE WHOOOAAA!!”
The Russians loved to steal our designs.
if you go fast enough and have enough curved surface
I know that...just making fun of myself.
Well, after I posted my last comment here, I realized that I was implying that if the pilot got up and was walking toward the back of the plane it would make the port wing starboard and vice versa, so don’t feel bad.
Just Imagine doing that without fossil fuels......
Lol. So it authoritatively is the pilot’s view out the front windscreen while seated in the Captain’s chair.
Think how many beer cans that recycled aluminum will make!
Absolutely.
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