Posted on 03/22/2009 4:41:41 PM PDT by Moonman62
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Video seems to show a trailing small parachute of some kind. hard to tell if that is what it is.
On smaller aircraft, you keep airspeed up and less flaps for gusty conditions. I don’t know if big jets do this or not.
Looks like a gust lifted them back up, maybe they applied power to go around, but then the wing stalled.
It looks like the nose was forced down pretty violently. Wonder if it was a computer malfunction.
Video shows two large landing bounces. Seems to be out of control then a left wing hits the ground.
You’re not going to believe it, but “Castaway” is on FX right now.
When is it not on fx ?
Damn, I hope the pilots are okay.
True. I was raised in the era of the ABC Sunday Night Movie, when it was a big deal to see James Bond on TV three years after the movie was in the theater.
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Playing NOW on FX. Coincidence? you decide :)
It does appear that something is trailing though.
Not a pretty landing. I flew many trips to Narita in B-747s and DC-10s... quite and operation there. For example, there was a requirement to extend the landing gear prior to flying over the coast line just in case ther was any ice accumulation that could fall down on the house below!
Classic porpoise accident followed by stall, wing drop, crash, burn, die. Don’t know why the pilot didn’t recover.
That's a good one. I'm sure the deceased crewmembers' families would agree.
Wow. I just ride airplanes but I do like them very much. Does it look to you in the video like a downdraft forced the nose down suddenly and the pilot over-corrected?
I’m guessing pilot pushover after the bounce. Wrong move if it’s true.
I was wondering if some of the cargo started moving around.
Two pilots killed in Tokyo plane crash
33 minutes ago
TOKYO (AFP) — Two pilots were confirmed dead at hospital after their FedEx cargo aircraft crash-landed and burst into flames Monday at Japan's Narita International Airport east of Tokyo, a hospital official said.
"We confirmed the deaths of the two pilots while we are still examining the exact cause of their deaths," Katsuji Komiyama, an official at Japanese Narita Red Cross Hospital, told AFP.
Public broadcaster NHK reported that one of the pilots was taken from the plane and sent to hospital, but his condition was not known.
Television footage showed the three-engine widebody airplane tip sideways shortly after touch-down amid strong winds and then, as one of its wings clipped the ground at high speed, burst into a ball of flames.
Fire engines and scores of fire-fighters in flame retardant silver suits rushed to the crash site near the runway and doused the fire with foam as the gutted aircraft lay upside down billowing black smoke.
The four-kilometre (2.5-mile) airstrip, one of the airport's two runways, was closed to air traffic, airport officials said.
The two pilots were believed to be US citizens, NHK said.
The site of a FedEx cargo plane crash in Narita, suburban Tokyo
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