This one?
Posted on 08/03/2016 4:54:30 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
DUBAI -- An Emirates flight from India with 300 people on board, including 6 Americans, crash landed at Dubai's main airport on Wednesday, sending black smoke billowing into the air and halting all traffic at the Middle East's busiest airport. Authorities said all passengers were evacuated safely.
Dubai-based Emirates said the accident happened around 12:45 p.m. local time as Flight EK521 was arriving from the southern Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram.
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WOW, crazy close call, that looks awful on the video, so lucky they got everyone out....
CBS video doesn’t want to play for me, here’s the youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mcAc13dYq8
“Thiruvananthapuram”
There’s your problem!
I was in Brisbane last january awaiting a flight to Honolulu when i saw a procession of Emirates flight crew, the pilots, the stews, all dressed impeccably, all marching quite literally in unison across the terminal, but they didn’t seem happy, an almost superior smug look was there, like “We control the world attitude”.
“Pilot squawk” from flght:
Problem: “Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.”
Solution: “Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.”
And this is why I don’t wanna fly (unless I hit lotto for a private plane).
Unconfirmed speculation on some of the airliner forum sites about possible landing gear problem, or a failed go-around attempt with prematurely-retracted landing gear, compounded by wind shear and air temperature of over 120 degrees F.
(Speculation based on no facts can be fun.)
But it’s good to hear that all pax and crew evacuated safely.
This is not the first 777 to crash on landing.
CBS does not like my ad blocker, too bad CBS
I hope that hawt girl is ok, the beautiful one from the Emirates Air commercial that played over and over during the US Open tennis matches.
With three crash landings in 21 years with a total of three fatalities, you could do a lot worse.
The first crash landing was due to the Rolls Royce engine design, and the second was pilot error. We’ll see what this third one was from soon enough.
Of course there’s the mystery disappearance of flight MH17 and the one that got shot down...
An auto throttle failure in the UK and the Asiana crash at SFO. Hard to count the Asiana crash against Boeing. A day, 12 mile visual straight in, CAVU weather is something even Asiana’s pilots should be able to handle.
I am so glad I don’t live in Thiruvananthapuram.
This one?
If the “auto throttle failure in the UK” is the incident I’m thinking of, it was actually due to ice pellets in the fuel (they had spent a lot of time during the flight at -100F) clogging the fuel filter.
An auto throttle failure in the UK and the Asiana crash at SFO. Hard to count the Asiana crash against Boeing. A day, 12 mile visual straight in, CAVU weather is something even Asiana’s pilots should be able to handle.
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I thought the UK crash was due to ice in the fuel system. And Boeing didn’t make it out of the Asiana crash investigation unscathed:
Contributing to the accident were (1) the complexities of the autothrottle and autopilot flight director systems that were inadequately described in Boeing’s documentation...
There is also this one:
The type’s second hull-loss occurred on July 29, 2011, when EgyptAir Flight 667 a 777-200ER registered as SU-GBP suffered a cockpit fire while parked at the gate at Cairo International Airport. The plane was successfully evacuated with no injuries, and airport fire teams extinguished the fire. The aircraft sustained structural, heat and smoke damage. This aircraft was written off. Investigators focused on a possible electrical fault with a supply hose in the cockpit crew oxygen system.
They were lucky it happened at the gate instead of in flight.
Flight EK521 now arriving at Gate 10.......Gate 11......Gate 12......Gate 13..........
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