The future of flying

[RedLagoon]

I'm not a pilot but if anything I'd wager the plane was a bit too high and was descending on too steep of a trajectory in the final seconds before touchdown. The weather (wind) conditions may have played a role in rushing the landing, but the touchdown seemed very abrupt. I wonder what the circumstances were leading up to that.

Yes that could've also been the case, approaching too high and then trying to drop speed to catch the glide slope only to find yourself in too steep of a decline.
Going too low could look similar but then I didn't hear the engines picking up speed just before impact so they might've been disillusioned by all the snow around if they were approaching using VFR.

Most likely they weren't stabilised during the approach and a go around would've been the better option.

 

[Caduceus]

Looks to me he was too low btw and hit the runway way too hard.

Do not assume the gender of the pilots !!

 

[Cooper]

 

[RedLagoon]

I prefer drunk Japanese male pilots at this point.

 

[Cooper]

The Ann Coulter rule is in effect, since the names/identities of the crew have not been released, we can assume that they were young girl boss pilots...

 

[The Penitent Man]

Just another reminder that women are children who like to pretend. They like to play dress up. They like to play tea party. They like to play friends.

When their bodies grow older, but their minds do not, they now pretend to play pilot, soldier, or engineer. They have no grasp of the responsibilities associated with these jobs, despite having trained for them, because they are not designed to shoulder that burden. Life is a game to them, and winning means getting to play dress up as someone who has something important to do and showing off the uniform.

 

[Thomas More]

Looks like the right hand side main gear (starboard) collapsed on impact (you see the plane correcting due to the strong winds so it wasn't completely level) which made the plane sink and tumble and flip. It was low on fuel after a long flight so thank God the whole thing didn't end up in an inferno.

It initially made a big fireball that was all over the back of the plane, but when it started rolling over and over, it seems to have had the same effect as when a person who's on fire rolls over and over on the ground to put the flames out. The cold and snow seemed to help kill the flames as well, although I'm sure the runway would have been plowed and salted fairly clean.

The videos that show the people getting off the plane also show fire trucks hosing down the plane. I read somewhere that after everyone got off the plane, it burst into flames again.

It's truly a blessing from God that everyone survived.

 

[budoslavic]

Old posts via Endeavor Air related to "unmanned" flights.

 

[TheLoneReader]

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Somehow people seem relatively fine.

Edit: just a minute late.

Re-watching this, I couldn't help but notice some people are bringing their carry-on out with them. I think I would be high-tailing it out of there with the thought that it could still blow at any minute.

 

[Uncle Cr33pin]

 

[Caduceus]

 

[RedLagoon]

Because they were women who already got sacked and rehired at some other airline I bet you.

 

[ed plrbs unm]

It initially made a big fireball that was all over the back of the plane, but when it started rolling over and over, it seems to have had the same effect as when a person who's on fire rolls over and over on the ground to put the flames out. The cold and snow seemed to help kill the flames as well, although I'm sure the runway would have been plowed and salted fairly clean.

The videos that show the people getting off the plane also show fire trucks hosing down the plane. I read somewhere that after everyone got off the plane, it burst into flames again.

It's truly a blessing from God that everyone survived.

The plane was landing at the end of the flight so I'm guessing it had little fuel left on board, hence the lack of big fireball. Also, fuel tanks in the wings, so that would have gone when the wings snapped off.

The landing didn't look that hard (speaking as a guy who likes to go out to the airport and watch the takeoffs and landings). Even on a hard landing the plane will bounce, but here the right main gear just seemed to give way immediately.

 

[Cooper]

This pretty much seals it, two 20-something girl boss types who can't parallel park.

 

[RedLagoon]

The plane was landing at the end of the flight so I'm guessing it had little fuel left on board, hence the lack of big fireball. Also, fuel tanks in the wings, so that would have gone when the wings snapped off.

The landing didn't look that hard (speaking as a guy who likes to go out to the airport and watch the takeoffs and landings). Even on a hard landing the plane will bounce, but here the right main gear just seemed to give way immediately.

It was descending way too rapidly, there's a reason that FO that was holding was filming the plane that crashed. It was going too fast at too steep of an angle to make that landing and that's why the landing gear gave up in my opinion (maybe bad maintenance could be part of the issue, sure). You can see the over correcting from the aelerons from the high winds, they had a head wind that means more lift my guess is that they forced the landing. Go around would've been safer but hey, we all want to get home early right?

Edit:

This is just my opinion from the few videos we've seen the investigation will take months and there will be some redactions there to protect the pilots.

 

[Cooper]

 

[Caduceus]

I'm glad that people are still digging to find out who the pilots were.

 

[homersheineken]

I'm glad that people are still digging to find out who the pilots were.

Take it to the Fake New thread!

Just absurd how they continue to cower behind DIE instead of reporting the news.

 

[Matsufubu]

Not a plane, but still relevant.

 

[Uncle Cr33pin]