one just crashed in Butte Montana
Did a sub and ship just collide in the Persian gulf is someone jamming our radar ?
Pilot bounced the landing.
Damn...
UPDATE 2-FedEx plane crashes, explodes at Tokyo's Narita
Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:15pm EDTTOKYO, March 23 (Reuters) - A Federal Express Corp cargo plane crashed and burst into flames as it landed at Narita international airport on Monday, closing one runway at the busy gateway to Tokyo.
NHK public broadcaster showed video of the plane crashing and exploding and said there was no immediate news of the fate of the pilot and co-pilot on board.
A Narita Airport spokesman said that one of the airport's two runways was closed but could not say if passenger flights would be affected.
Narita is the main international airport for the Japanese capital and NHK said the plane crashed on the main, long runway.
Japanese media said the plane was a FedEx cargo flight from Guangzhou, China and a FedEx logo was clearly visible on the upturned remains of the aircraft.
NHK's video showed the plane land hard and tip onto its left wing and burst into flame.
It ended upside down off to one side of the runway with firefighters spraying foam onto the broken remains of the plane with its wheel in the air.
Kyodo news agency said that the plane was an MD-11, a freighter made by McDonnell Douglas, part of Boeing Co (BA.N).
Fedex officials in Japan were not immediately available for comment. (Reporting by Linda Sieg and Chisa Fujioka; Editing by Rodney Joyce)
Yikes.
Looks like an old DC-10 frieghter.
Odd looking crash. The plane landed, then porpoised, and landed hard the second time. The second landing collapsed the Left Main Gear, and that was all she wrote.
DC-10? Looks like the nose gear took a couple of good hits on the 2nd and third touchdowns.
It’s an MD-11 with FedEx markings, not sure if it’s Osaka or Tokyoor what.
The broadcaster says there were just two aboard. The plane came from China, “Kooshyu” (?). It was a FedEx cargo plane. Smoke coming up from the fuselage.
NRT currently reporting winds NW 30 mph
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Fed Ex. When it absolutely, positively has to be blown to bits on a tarmac somewhere...
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.
Damn, I hope the pilots are okay.
Wow. I bet the cockpit voice recording will be interesting.
