Posted on 09/13/2021 10:55:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Boeing 737, repatriating Indians stranded in Dubai due to the coronavirus pandemic, overshot the table-top runway and crashed while landing at Calicut International Airport in the southern state of Kerala in heavy rain on August 8, 2020.
In spite of being asked to go around by the pilot monitoring the landing, the pilot flying the aircraft failed to do so, the agency said, and the monitoring pilot also failed to take over the controls and execute the order.
The aircraft had already made one failed attempt to land before it overran the 2,700-metre (8,900-foot) runway. The airport is known as a table-top because its runways have steep drops at one or both ends.
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Appears he was first at the scene of the crash!
Runway too short for conditions?......................
Anytime there’s an accident with a large passenger plane, the first “pilot error” to investigate is if the pilot yelled something that sounds too much like Admiral Ackbar.
Well in this case it was more like, “Hold my beer. I got this.”
737 needs approx 1500 m of runway at sea level - with some variation for the different models, air temp, wind, load. Calicut is nearly sea level and has 2700 m of runway - so plenty of room.
Because of heavy rains and wind pilot may have touched down too far into the runway. Just speculating.
Not if you start at 1500m....................
What about wet runways and heavy winds?
Amazing there was no fire on that rear fuselage, wing, and empennage remnant.
After a go-around due to weather? Stupid.
Sounds like a case of “get-there-itis”....someone was in a rush and did not want to go around a second time.
PROOF that your ego can kill you
Strong winds usually work in your favor as long as they are not at too much of an angle. Strong headwinds mean you can land with a lower actual ground speed.
Strong winds can also be your worst enemy. Cross winds, even just at a decent angle, require the pilot to crab/slip the approach. The low mounted engines on 737s pretty much take away the slipping option. Nice thing about wet runways - because they're slicker you can leave some or all of the crab in right to touchdown. But it still makes the flare non-standard and adds just that much more workload to the pilot.
Even worse are inconsistent, variable winds. You can be all set up on approach and a sudden increase in headwind can increase your lift causing you to "float" long before touchdown. Or a drop in winds can give you a pretty good sink rate and cause a pilot to pull-up and/or add power, which if over-done causes you to land long or simply de-stabilizes the approach.
Like most aircraft accidents, it's never one thing, it's a combination of things that add up or stack up and eventually you run out of safety margins and something bad happens.
What about them?
Firm touchdown depletes energy and mitigates initial hydroplane effects.
No big deal.
Long runway. . .the pilot ham-fisted the landing.
get-there-itis
That is what happened to Kobe
This is why you don’t want H1B people in charge of anything important.
"...The pilot 'continued ... and landed ... halfway down the runway'...."Airmanship 101:
“If you can’t make it in the first third, throttle up, flaps up, gear up”. . .once clear of the ground and achieved a positive rate of climb. . .otherwise you might have to use full power to taxi to the gate. . .
I crack me up.
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