Mr GG2 a pilot and former Boeing line chief says the pilot made hard landing too soon. He hit the embankment and took the landing gear off then the tail. It didn’t go very far after it hit so he says the guy probably didn’t dial in his barometric pressure right so he landed way too soon. He was probably looking at the dials and not the ground. The radar should have been overiding it but who knows.
I’m looking at too soon also as where most of the tail parts ended up on the overrun. Probably took out some landing lights too.
Bingo we are looking at the embankment right now on TV. He took the landing gear off by coming in too soon.
That crash has special meaning for me because my father was on the scene, he worked at the airport at the time, and because the doomed plane passed right over my head seconds before crashing. We lived in East Boston at the time and our house was right under the flight path.
Looks like you may be right. Almost landed short in the water.
Your husband looks to be right, so far. From ABC News helicopter view video of the runway it looks like the plane skimmed the embankment on landing. The rocks look like they were disturbed and the debris field starts there along with a long scrape trail and pieces of landing gear.
Pilot can stay in The USA and become a new guest worker. Part time job only. less than 29 hours a week at McDonalds. His co-workers: “Hey, you use ta bees dat Chinese pilot guy, or sum-thin”.
Seems clear now, the pilot landed short of the runaway, causing the aircraft to lose control...
The question now is why?
“It didn’t go very far after it hit so he says the guy probably didn’t dial in his barometric pressure right so he landed way too soon. He was probably looking at the dials and not the ground.”
My uninformed conclusion as well, but better stated than I.