Originally posted by Peter Kesternich
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[QUOTE=Jorge;610160]One of the local stations actually showed it live yesterday. They sent out a tug and it essentially preformed a what the California DMV calls a"3 point turn" and took it back to the gate so the passengers could deplane.
I think everyone wanted to get off that plane after seeing that horrific crash!
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Originally posted by AVION1 View PostThose pilots should surrender their pilot's licenses and ASIANA airlines should be banned from flying into the United States. And their passports should be confiscated.
If it 'ain't broken........ Don't try to mend it !
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Originally posted by Gabriel View PostJust a comment. Apparently the runway they were using had a working PAPI but the GS was out of service, and the parallel runway had a working GS but the PAPI was out of service. Not that it changes anything what you've said.
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Originally posted by Evan View PostI'm just wondering, is it possible to use the LOC from 28L and the GS from the 28R?
While the LOC and GS have independent frequencies, there is a table that pair them one to one. In the NARCO receiver that I used, you only selected the LOC frequency and the corresponding GS frequency was tuned itself in the same act.
In fact, the charts don't even show the GS frequency, although it can be found in some airport directories.
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Originally posted by Peter Kesternich View PostHmmmmm - after reading the thread and watching the posted video links and thinking about how the aircraft got too slow and too low and how the captain was not very experienced and the weather was good here is a question that came to my mind:
Both 28 runways at KSFO are equipped with PAPI. What were the guys in the cockpit looking at while the 777 wrangled itself from their hands? Normally, the PAPI should have quickly alerted them that their sink rate was getting too high and that they were descending below the (visual) glide slope.
I wonder if they had flaps at the wrong setting?
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Originally posted by Gabriel View PostJust a comment. Apparently the runway they were using had a working PAPI but the GS was out of service, and the parallel runway had a working GS but the PAPI was out of service. Not that it changes anything what you've said.
They were enough behind the plane to take a fully unstabilized approach to a smoking hole in the ground: Roughly, the airspeed was continuously decaying along at least the last 80 seconds, from way above Vref (137kts) to way below Vref. The vertical speed was continuously decaying in the last 50 seconds from way above the typical 700fpm to almost parallel to the ground. The descent gradient also was continuously decaying in the last 50 seconds from way steeper that 3° to, again, almost parallel to the ground. The engines were at idle until 1.5 seconds before the impact. Other than the heading and the config, I don't know what other stabilized approach criteria they could have violated. I guess that things like airspeed are more important than the PAPI, so if they ignored the former why not the later?
Other than that, MAYBE they were looking at the PAPI. It was 4 white for most of the approach. As one light turned red they started to pull up, but they were descending very fast and the lights quickly changed to 2, 3 and 4 red. So they kept pulling up but by then they had run out of airspeed, and with the biggest (and slowest to spool-up) engines in the industry at idle, they also run out of thrust, and being so low, also out of altitude. By then, they had nothing to trade for speed (neither altitude nor fuel).
Any way you slice it, it just screams incredibly poor airmanship.
@T.O.G.A., multiple news reports stated the flaps were set at the usual 30 degrees.
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Originally posted by guamainiac View Post3WE, agree on all points, but if someone was looking out the window ... whatever happened to the primary rule that the landing spot should stay in one place in the windshield?
They were most certainly ..
Regarding the video, it will be interesting because it looked like they were dragging water (perhaps) before it strikes the seawall.
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Originally posted by Jingogunner View PostThe Captain, according to CNN , has only 43 hours on type. Is that a material factor in allowing a stall to develop?
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Originally posted by Deadstick View PostHe also has some 10k hours in 737's and 747's. One has to wonder why the 1st officer, who was performing as a check pilot with some 3k hours in type, didn't catch what was going on and respond earlier.
This turkey was definitely trotting to water.
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