This video clip shows a 19-passenger Czech-manufactured Let-410 Turbolet airliner, presumably in the service of the Russian airline Aeroflot (to judge by the paint scheme), trying to land somewhere in Russia. It's perhaps the worst landing I've ever seen that didn't result in flames and smoke erupting from the wreckage!
Even though there was no fire, the pilot managed to collapse at least the nosewheel, and perhaps the starboard main wheel as well, judging by the angle at which the plane came to rest.
This is almost as bad as the landing of an Iranian Sukhoi Su-24 strike aircraft that I put up here a couple of years ago. In case you missed it then, here it is again. The video is of rather poor quality, but if you'll excuse that, it's worth watching. The pilot makes a pass at the runway, but doesn't land. On his second pass, he slams it down willy-nilly, and porpoises down the runway until he smashes the undercarriage. Of course, this ruptures the fuel tanks, which catch fire. If you watch closely, you'll see the pilot and his Weapons Systems Operator eject safely from the burning wreckage as it skids down the runway.
You'll notice the plume of what looks like white smoke coming out of the back of the Su-24 as it comes in to land the second time. I think that's fuel being dumped, which would also account for the burning trail left down the runway after the crash. Why, precisely, the pilot chose to do that at so low an altitude, I really couldn't say . . . but then again, perhaps we don't really want to know! (Being Iranian, perhaps he was practicing for a future martyrdom?)
Peter
Which once again proves that any landing you can walk away from is a good landing, and any landing where you can then use the aircraft to take off again was a great landing.
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Many moons ago, a family member got to experience a "one pass, four landings" ride at the old Tokyo airport with one Captain Hashimoto of JAL. For some odd reason, his is the one airline pilot's name she can remember, this after flying pretty frequently for several decades.
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Ah dunno, Peter. That _almost_ looks like landing where he may have had a gear indication problem and tried to touch down as softly as possible, after which he went into the porpoising.
ReplyDeleteCopilot, record our landing.
Yes sir; which one?
While I've never flown anything with more than one engine, I always go around after the second bounce, or the first one if it's bad enough. Can't imagine that changing with a bigger, more expensive airplane...
ReplyDeleteOUCH-THAT HURTS! As a novice pilot, it happenend one, or two times to myself. It is caused by a chaotic approach, resulting in a chaotic landing, combined with unhealthy "i-want-to-get-thereitis". They were approaching too fast, so they bounced back into the air when they touched the ground. Aircraft love flying and it's not easy to force them to stay on the ground, if there is too much energy left. Don't push the stick in such a situation. Try to keep level flight, starve out overspeed and touch down on main wheels. If you are a less experienced pilot, the only way to stay safe is to pull throttle to full power and make a go around to try again. And if a runway is long enough, remember, a long landing is always a safe landing. Forget the plane-it's always your own health and your own life you are playing with!
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