....and the wing plus the 2 engines are damaged, too?
2007-11-13 06:46:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Fail to flare, cut power too soon, come in too slow, hit with roll on. If he hit the ground hard and damaged the gear he could well have rolled to that side too. Hitting the ground nose gear first, or even one main gear first at high weight can do serious damage. The landing weight of aircraft is computed for the main gear coming down level at a reasonable rate of descent, if the aircraft is heavy, lands one sided or lands with a high rate of descent then it's easy to do a lot of damage.
Did you mean the incident linked below? That was an overrun following a burst tire. Too soon to say what caused that. Too fast, wet runway, braked to hard, faulty tire, bad luck... anybody's guess right now.
2007-11-13 07:51:49 · answer #1 · answered by Chris H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He DIDNT land hard. He over ran. The gear couldent cope with the stresses and collapsed. Huge diffrence.
2007-11-13 16:33:01 · answer #2 · answered by Charles 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im sure its still going to be under investigation whether he flew to far on the runway, did he blow tires, brake failure,any number of things right now its preliminary,,,, but im sure the plane is totaled
2007-11-13 17:39:19 · answer #3 · answered by John N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
too s l o w
(bad pilot)
2007-11-16 11:17:34 · answer #4 · answered by audi fan =] 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋