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Fedex plane crashes in Japan (Video)
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| 03/22/09
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Posted on 03/22/2009 4:41:41 PM PDT by Moonman62
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To: gridlock
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posted on
03/22/2009 4:58:09 PM PDT
by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
To: Moonman62
Video seems to show a trailing small parachute of some kind. hard to tell if that is what it is.
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posted on
03/22/2009 4:59:26 PM PDT
by
LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot
("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
To: Moonman62
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posted on
03/22/2009 4:59:39 PM PDT
by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
To: Moonman62
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.
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posted on
03/22/2009 5:11:54 PM PDT
by
Names Ash Housewares
(Refusing to kneel before the socialist messiah. 1-20-13 Freedom Day.)
To: Moonman62
It looks like the nose was forced down pretty violently. Wonder if it was a computer malfunction.
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posted on
03/22/2009 5:12:52 PM PDT
by
OCC
To: LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot
Video shows two large landing bounces. Seems to be out of control then a left wing hits the ground.
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posted on
03/22/2009 5:13:05 PM PDT
by
AGreatPer
(Obama is not my president until we see his birth certificate. A real one.)
To: OrangeHoof; All
You’re not going to believe it, but “Castaway” is on FX right now.
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posted on
03/22/2009 5:14:04 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: buccaneer81
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posted on
03/22/2009 5:18:26 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: Moonman62
Damn, I hope the pilots are okay.
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posted on
03/22/2009 5:20:55 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: al baby
When is it not on fx ?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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posted on
03/22/2009 5:25:13 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: gridlock
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posted on
03/22/2009 5:26:26 PM PDT
by
saganite
(What would Sully do?)
To: Alter Kaker
Playing NOW on FX. Coincidence? you decide :)
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posted on
03/22/2009 5:33:27 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(May God save America from its government; this is no time for Obamateurs. Emmanuel = Haldeman?)
To: LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot
I flew Dc-10 Freighters and there was no “parachute” used or even installed.
The Boeing B-47 used a chute during approach to land so the power could be kept in a higher range in case a go-around was necessary. I do not know if the MD-11 freighter had an approach drogue chute.
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!
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posted on
03/22/2009 5:47:42 PM PDT
by
BatGuano
To: conservative cat
Classic porpoise accident followed by stall, wing drop, crash, burn, die. Don’t know why the pilot didn’t recover.
To: OrangeHoof
Fed Ex. When it absolutely, positively has to be blown to bits on a tarmac somewhere... That's a good one. I'm sure the deceased crewmembers' families would agree.
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posted on
03/22/2009 5:53:34 PM PDT
by
Minipax
To: BatGuano
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?
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posted on
03/22/2009 5:54:14 PM PDT
by
LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot
("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
To: OCC
I’m guessing pilot pushover after the bounce. Wrong move if it’s true.
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posted on
03/22/2009 5:58:21 PM PDT
by
saganite
(What would Sully do?)
To: saganite
I was wondering if some of the cargo started moving around.
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posted on
03/22/2009 6:07:39 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: Paleo Conservative
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
To: Moonman62
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