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Civil Aviation => Modern Civil Aircraft => Topic started by: casper on January 22, 2010, 11:11:10 AM

Title: Bad Landing at London City Airport
Post by: casper on January 22, 2010, 11:11:10 AM

An extremely rugged bird :)

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Title: Re: Bad Landing at London City Airport
Post by: George on January 22, 2010, 10:46:53 PM

Whoops!

Title: Re: Bad Landing at London City Airport
Post by: Merlin on January 22, 2010, 11:13:09 PM

That's gotta hurt  :LOL

Title: Re: Bad Landing at London City Airport
Post by: Paultojo on January 23, 2010, 05:12:22 PM

No hook down either  :o
 
Paul

Title: Re: Bad Landing at London City Airport
Post by: Angry Turnip on January 23, 2010, 05:39:48 PM

Looks like a classic case of Windshear,you can see the aircraft being forced into the ground;notice the landing gear how much it absorbs the impact!
Most other similar sized aircraft would probably have broken up in such an impact.