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Offline Tango Tango Fanta

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amazing landing
« on: November 01, 2011, 03:44:56 PM »
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Re: amazing landing
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2011, 05:11:37 PM »
Superb piece of flying.
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Re: amazing landing
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2011, 05:48:57 PM »
As the saying goes "any landing you can walk away from is a good one."

One question though:

Given that the plane landed gear up, would the pilot have still been able to control its direction or was it just momentum carrying it in a straight line?
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Re: amazing landing
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2011, 05:55:17 PM »
I'd say he still had some directional control using the rudder. However I don't know at what speed the rudder would become useless.
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Re: amazing landing
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2011, 08:16:33 PM »
Superb piece of flying by the crew although it is something that is routinely trained for,when it comes to doing it for real,you couldn`t ask for much better.
The rudder will operate down to a fairly low speed,and the runway would have been treated with foam to reduce sparks etc.
The flight crew deserve the highest praise possible.
 
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Re: amazing landing
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2011, 01:19:06 AM »
Phoa! Impressive! I skipped over all the LOT Emergency landing threads this morning before work thinking it was nothing serious, now I see this. I'm glad everyone's ok. And of course you can always rely on the Polish aviation photographers to get good pictures of the event.
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