FireLight
04-29-2008, 07:20 AM
All's well that end's well. A very lucky outcome here. Not that it was good for the plane, but good the crew was okay. This TNT Airways cargo plane left it's right landing gear in East Midlands on it's first "landing". A "touch-and-go" sort of. :p The second "landing" in Birmingham ended as well as could be hoped.
Flying around with a name like TNT doesn't sound like a good omen either. :uhoh:
A string of failures caused a plane to crash-land at an airport before taking off again and carrying out an emergency landing at another, a report has said.
Air accident investigators said inappropriate and incorrect procedures could have led to a "catastrophe".
These included a badly timed air traffic message to the TNT Airways cargo plane as it tried to land at East Midlands in poor weather in June 2006.
The plane was damaged but later made an emergency landing at Birmingham.
The Belgian Boeing 737 - on a cargo flight from Liege in Belgium - finally came to a stop with part of its undercarriage missing. None of the crew was injured.
More here BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7372457.stm
Flying around with a name like TNT doesn't sound like a good omen either. :uhoh:
A string of failures caused a plane to crash-land at an airport before taking off again and carrying out an emergency landing at another, a report has said.
Air accident investigators said inappropriate and incorrect procedures could have led to a "catastrophe".
These included a badly timed air traffic message to the TNT Airways cargo plane as it tried to land at East Midlands in poor weather in June 2006.
The plane was damaged but later made an emergency landing at Birmingham.
The Belgian Boeing 737 - on a cargo flight from Liege in Belgium - finally came to a stop with part of its undercarriage missing. None of the crew was injured.
More here BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7372457.stm