Posted on 07/06/2013 12:02:24 PM PDT by FreedomPoster
Currently just Tweets and locals talking about this, nothing on news sites yet. Lots of stuff in the Twitter feed, including links to uploaded videos of the smoking mess.
Well, if Gloria Allred was nearby, the presser would already be called to protect the rights of female passengers.
Pix/vids
http://globalgrind.com/news/boeing-777-airplane-crashes-runway-san-francisco-airport-photos-video
Flightaware
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAR214/history/20130706/0730Z/RKSI/KSFO/tracklog
Was that picture taken from the vicinity of the San Francisco Airport Marriott?
I think we have seen that the 777 can’t turn on a dime when the captain wakes up and realizes “oops—wrong runway.”
Downright fascinating link, Steely. “Written off” means it will be destroyed, or can undamaged pieces be sold?
KTVU now says report of fatalities unconfirmed
My vote is pilot error.
While long haul flights have extra aircrew, this does not mean they are always fully rested.
Who knows. . .
No, I was refering to the link someone gave in an earlier post of a MD-80 hard landing. Watch that folks and you’ll see the tail never touched the ground, but instead the shockwave from the hard landing threw the tail off like a dog shaking when he comes out of the water. Very cool video.
Don’t know.
The person who took it was surprised.
You need to learn more about the landing maneuver before you make a comment. The “glide path” requires a constant rate descent that is dependent on ground speed. A B 777’s final approach speed would require approximately 600’ per minute. Believe me when I say the pilot must flare the airplane. This accident appears, at first glance, to have “met the runway at some point” and did not flare. It looks like the gear and engines, were sheared off when the plane left the runway. The vertical stabilizer was torn off as well, not sure how. It will all come out in the wash(NTSB report).
That picture tells a lot.
Nose is way high. Tail is impacting or about to impact the rock berm.
I’m glad they’re not still playing the theme from “A Man and a Woman” on the SFO PA system.
Better to be embarassed by a go-around, than to explain that mess.
CNN Analyst: Came in too low. Tail hit the rock berm on the bay at the very end of the runways (we call them the the 28’s), and broke off.
Those familiar with this airport know that the runway end is elevated slightly over the surface of the bay.
Purely uninformed speculation, but it sounds to me like someone failed to reset the altimeter before approach.
Hate to be a guy in the jet waiting number one for departure when the jet plonked in. Dang. . .taxi-back to the gate and write-off traveling out of SFO for a while.
Dang. . .
I’ve been saying the same thing for years—if I can’t drive there, I don’t go there. I’ve been everywhere foreign that I ever hoped to visit, and there are many large areas of the USA that I haven’t seen. I’m planning on taking a car trip before long..........
Don’t have to report anything if they were doing a visual approach. Done all the time in clear wx.
Pic of debris at the edge of the Bay, well before the runway.
https://twitter.com/NewsBreaker/status/353602322192035840/photo/1
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