There's 'hard' and there's 'hard'. :-)

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#1 Post by Boac » Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:12 pm

A company called West Atlantic planted a Boeing 737-400 freighter at Exeter today causing a revision of the airport QNH. It was so hard I suspect the airframe will have to be written off and reportedly the Royal Mail could not unload their cargo from it.

"Bit late on the round-out, Hoskins!" as the well-known debrief goes..............................

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#2 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:16 pm

Buff out?

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#3 Post by PHXPhlyer » Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:16 pm

All they need is speed tape. A sh!t load of speed tape! :)) =)) :ymdevil:

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#4 Post by tango15 » Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:29 pm

A mate of mine flies for West Atlantic, but I've just checked and he's not in a hotel in Exeter :))

Royal Mail will not be best pleased with the delay to the off-loading of the mail and fines will be imposed, I feel sure.

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#5 Post by k3k3 » Tue Jan 19, 2021 10:20 pm

They might as well open the cargo door with the crash axe, after all, it's not going anywhere.

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#6 Post by Alisoncc » Wed Jan 20, 2021 12:19 am

tango15 wrote:
Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:29 pm
A mate of mine flies for West Atlantic, but I've just checked and he's not in a hotel in Exeter :))
Did you try the hospitals? ;)))
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#7 Post by Boac » Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:05 am

...or getting a digger out to the touchdown markings............ =))

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#8 Post by Ex-Ascot » Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:35 am

Alisoncc wrote:
Wed Jan 20, 2021 12:19 am
tango15 wrote:
Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:29 pm
A mate of mine flies for West Atlantic, but I've just checked and he's not in a hotel in Exeter :))
Did you try the hospitals? ;)))
Or the train station?
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#9 Post by Pinky the pilot » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:38 am

Guess it will be a case of Tea and Biccies with the CP for the Flight Crew. :-?
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#10 Post by tango15 » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:45 am

Alisoncc wrote:
Wed Jan 20, 2021 12:19 am
tango15 wrote:
Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:29 pm
A mate of mine flies for West Atlantic, but I've just checked and he's not in a hotel in Exeter :))
Did you try the hospitals? ;)))
=)) No, he's fine - he was in Bucharest!

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#11 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:56 am

Back to remedial landing school or, maybe, a new career flipping burgers, for some ex-pilot! Poor bugger.

I always think of this crash when I think of how what should be a run of the mill landing goes hideously, and in this case, tragically, wrong...




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#12 Post by llondel » Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:56 pm

I do like this comment...
i mean, i see nothing wrong with this from a Carrier Landing Practice point of view... armchair pilots do this all the time on their flightsim programs these guys just proved its structurally possible :-)

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#13 Post by Boac » Wed Jan 20, 2021 7:02 pm

TIME TO REPEAT: The lovely Lorraine from DanAir entering the flight-deck with knickers around her ankles and a cup of water in her hand:

"Which one of you boys planted that?"

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#14 Post by Ex-Ascot » Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:30 am

It is hard to imagine how he did this. Stall, dropped it on from a great height? Smashed it on with a three pointer? Dunno.
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#15 Post by llondel » Fri Jan 22, 2021 5:58 pm

Ex-Ascot wrote:
Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:30 am
It is hard to imagine how he did this. Stall, dropped it on from a great height? Smashed it on with a three pointer? Dunno.
Or thought the ground was another 20ft lower?

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#16 Post by Boac » Fri Jan 22, 2021 7:56 pm

I fancy that was a bit more than 750fpm................

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#17 Post by llondel » Fri Jan 22, 2021 8:04 pm

Perhaps the pilot also sails and confused feet and fathoms?

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#18 Post by Boac » Fri Jan 22, 2021 8:09 pm

Even with fathoms, should not be doing more than 125 fathoms/min at touchdown. :))

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#19 Post by llondel » Fri Jan 22, 2021 8:10 pm

Could also have been a microburst. I know there's warning for such things now, but if you're unlucky enough to be right there as it forms, there's nothing you can do.

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#20 Post by Boac » Fri Jan 22, 2021 8:25 pm

Ah - the dreaded 'Exeter microburst' :))

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