• Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashes duing landing at San Francisco International
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[quote=ABC News] A Boeing 777 operated by Asiana Airlines crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. This is a developing story. Check back for more updates.[/quote] [url]http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/06/19323541-boeing-777-crashes-while-landing-at-san-francisco-airport?lite[/url] flightaware: [url]http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAR214[/url]
Oh no. I hope everyone's alright. edit: Ok seriously who the hell hopes people are hurt??? You sick fucks.
Damn. Hope this was a "hard landing, scramble the ambulances" crash, not a "well we might be able to find some of the body parts" crash. I hate it when they rush so much to get a headline out that they basically say nothing at all.
From the local news around here in the bay area: [img]http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/400/img/photos/2013/07/06/9f/17/SFOplaneYoutube.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/boeing-777-crashes-while-landing-sfo/nYfcx/[/url]
[QUOTE=gman003-main;41336962]Damn. Hope this was a "hard landing, scramble the ambulances" crash, not a "well we might be able to find some of the body parts" crash. I hate it when they rush so much to get a headline out that they basically say nothing at all.[/QUOTE] An witness said it took a few minutes before emergency services arrived at the plane, suggesting that they weren't expecting it to go wrong
[QUOTE=Hackintosh;41336969]From the local news around here in the bay area: [img]http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/400/img/photos/2013/07/06/9f/17/SFOplaneYoutube.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/boeing-777-crashes-while-landing-sfo/nYfcx/[/url][/QUOTE] [quote] According to a witness, around 11:30 a.m. the plane was just about to land -- its landing gear had come down -- [b]when the tail of the plane came off. After wobbling for a minute, the aircraft flipped upside down, coming to a stop on runway on it's back, according to witness Kathy Muhler.[/b] When it came to a halt, smoke was pouring from the aircraft. Fire crews responded minutes later, Muhler said.[/quote] there's gonna be deaths for sure if that's true.
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Cool. Looks like a low-casualty crash to me tho [editline]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1286103&p=41337035#post41337035 [/editline] dumbo the elephant can fly unlike this plane rip
No word on casualties yet, it looks like most people are ok.
From what I can tell (and from the fact that the vertical stabilizers are by the threshold), looks like the pilot pitched far too much on the flare to land, causing his tail to hit (which isn't that uncommon, but from what I also hear he came in way too hard) and broke off the tail and popped a tire and sent him off the runway. [/armchairpilot] Seriously, I hope everyone's okay.
2 reported casualties so far Source: NBC News
[QUOTE=Kai-ryuu;41336994]there's gonna be deaths for sure if that's true.[/QUOTE] "the aircraft flipped upside down" This portion isn't actually true, the airplane did not actually flip upside down. [QUOTE=Dacheet;41337062]From what I can tell (and from the fact that the vertical stabilizers are by the threshold), looks like the pilot pitched far too much on the flare to land, causing his tail to hit (which isn't that uncommon, but from what I also hear he came in way too hard) and broke off the tail and popped a tire and sent him off the runway. [/armchairpilot] Seriously, I hope everyone's okay.[/QUOTE] Judging from the debris field it seems that part of the undercarriage actually snapped off from the plane, rather than just blowing a wheel. Losing the undercarriage would make sense as to why the airplane's tail section would hit the ground, breaking it off. And without the rear vertical stabilizer, horizontal movement would have been uncontrollable
[QUOTE=Dacheet;41337062]From what I can tell (and from the fact that the vertical stabilizers are by the threshold), looks like the pilot pitched far too much on the flare to land, causing his tail to hit [/QUOTE] This is exactly what an eyewitness reported who saw the entire thing take place
[QUOTE=Dacheet;41337062]From what I can tell (and from the fact that the vertical stabilizers are by the threshold), looks like the pilot pitched far too much on the flare to land, causing his tail to hit (which isn't that uncommon, but from what I also hear he came in way too hard) and broke off the tail and popped a tire and sent him off the runway. [/armchairpilot] Seriously, I hope everyone's okay.[/QUOTE] I saw a picture of the end of the runway and a description that seem to suggest the plane came in too low, clipped its gear the edge of the runway that goes into the sea, got knocked upwards and basically grinded its tail off along the runway.
[QUOTE=gaboer;41337108]"the aircraft flipped upside down" This portion isn't actually true, the airplane did not actually flip upside down.[/QUOTE] I agree, the wings are in relatively good condition meaning it has not rolled over
According to BBC, there are no fatalities as of yet but one critically injured.
Going to have to wait for a report on this one. Could even be some fluke structural failure on the tail during flare.
Large plane crashes are among the worst since you're basically powerless to do anything about it.
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[QUOTE=muffinmastah;41337224]Going to have to wait for a report on this one. Could even be some fluke structural failure on the tail during flare.[/QUOTE] It's going to be awhile before an NTSB report comes out
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Reports coming in that the planes glide slope was too steep, anyway press conference is coming in at the top of the hour.
According to Reddit, 2 are dead, 12 are injured. Simultaneously, Reddit also says all 303 people are accounted for and ok, so take it with a grain of salt.
Damn...hopefully, they can provide more video/image media of the crash site, just to give people a better idea of the current condition of the plane, and better speculate the likelyhood of fatalities being high, or low. Crossing fingers that fatalities were low.
[QUOTE=Saxon;41337373]Reports coming in that the planes glide slope was too steep, anyway press conference is coming in at the top of the hour.[/QUOTE] From how it works, the plane's glide slope was either too steep, or something caused the airplane to pitch up when landing. The odd part was that what seems to be the plane's initial touch down point was at the beginning of the runway, rather than the standard area around 500-1000ft into the runway, meaning something was already probably wrong. At that point either the tail clipped on the runway, or the undercarriage hit something, breaking it off, which then was what would have made the airplane's rear stabilizers to break off, losing most control of the airplane, causing the plane to spin, then roll off the runway. All of this really is just ideas though, and we really cannot be sure as to what exactly happend.
[url]http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/cvplive/cvpstream2.html[/url] Press conference now, basically they don't know shit yet and will hold another one in an hour
This really freaked me out because someone I know was on an incoming flight would have landed around the same time
From what I heard and the pictures, I'm guessing either they suddenly lost power at the last 10 seconds of their approach, stalled it, or their altimeter wasn't set correctly and they were lower than they thought
Confirmed so far: 2 dead, 61 injured (ABC News) The plane struck the very end of the runway, 1000ft short of where planes are supposed to land.
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