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Posted on 05/25/2008 9:24:02 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - An American Kalitta Air cargo plane slid off the runway at Brussels's Zaventem airport on Sunday and broke in two but there were no casualties, the fire brigade spokesman said.
The Boeing aircraft's five crew all escaped through an inflatable emergency slide, spokesman Francis Boileau said. Four of them had minor injuries.
Boileau did not know if the accident happened during take off or landing, but said that apart from its cargo of cars and equipment, the jet was full of fuel.
He said the plane came to a halt some 200 metres (650 feet) from the runway and only 10 metres (30 feet) from a railway line.
"There was a danger of an explosion just after the accident because it was full of kerosene, about 100 tonnes of it, and there was a big leakage when it broke," Boileau said.
The fire brigade had secured the leakage within 30 minutes, he said.
"We see from the large tracks on the runway that the pilot tried to stop the aircraft, because he understood he could not bring it up into the air, and he drove it off the runway," Boileau said.
The Kalitta Air company's website says it is a Michigan Limited Liability Company owned by Conrad Kalitta. It started in November 2000 with three Boeing 747 aircraft and the fleet has grown to a present total of 18 B 747 freighters.
At Least, It’s Center Fuel Tank didn’t detonate as Clintoonistas ridiculously declared on the TWA 800 Terror Attack..:-(
Probably just converting meters to yards from a wire story for the local readers.
I used to watch Thursday Night Thunder, a live racing program usually on a dirt track. I think Doug Kalitta was one of the regulars there. Jeff Gordon also was also a regular before he graduated to NASCAR.
Loved the program. It had everything but the smell of rubber burning. Then one night one of the racers had an awful crash, and the announcers had to fill in about an hour and a half whilst they swept up the guy. It was no worse than a rain delay in baseball, but the program shortly thereafter went to tape, and then disappeared from the TV entirely.
Blown engine? I was once on a plane whose middle engine apparently self-destructed shortly after takeoff. There was a boom and the entire plane shook - a minute or so later I realized we were no longer climbing. Then the captain came on the PA.
Wonder who’s the MRO for Kalitta Air on this one?
What’s the big deal?
A little Bondo, 20-30 minutes on the frame machine.....
Seriously, is (was) it a 747SP or does it just look that way because it is now “compressed?”
After they duct tape that pup back together like nothin’ ever happened, they can trade it in on somethin’ smaller, more fuel efficient, and therefore more “green”.
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>>Jan Van der Cruysse, spokesman at the airport. “The plane is very seriously damaged,”<<
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=192746fb-481e-402c-8460-8754ad602c77&;
Maybe the plane was already airborne and hit the runway again. Allowed maximum landing weight is about 100 tonnes less than MTOW.
The picture looks to me like the undercarriage still supports the tail section but the fueled wing section was to heavy for that little jump.
You laugh—my father-in-law used duct tape on a wing that he ripped on a barbed wire fence when taxiing at Famoso. Taped it up and flew it home.
Airplanes are not "full of fuel" on landing!
Every gallon of fuel not used on the flight is 7 lbs. of cargo they could have made money carrying. Also, the extra gross weight is hard on airframe and brakes when landing."
Actually, many times planes are full of fuel on landing. It's called fuel tankering. If fuel is cheaper at your origin than it is at your destination, it can be economical to carry that extra fuel. There are calculations done to determine the "break point", but I won't go into that here... ;o)
For example, flying from the Middle East where the stuff is extremely cheap to Europe, where it costs MUCH more.
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