First Officer bends a 767 on landing. For Real

[JohnyCanuck]

Holy Cow. Check this out - a 767 belonging to a charter outfit out of Toronto, Skyservice, recently made a hard landing in the Dominican Republic (reportedly the First Officer made the landing). This was not just a run of the mill hard landing. In fact, they landed so hard they wrinkled the outer skin on the plane. They showed it on the TV news and it looked even worse than the picture below. The passenges said they thought they were going to die the landing was so rough. Luggage was falling out of the overhead bins and stuff in the galley was crashing down and one of the passengers interviewed on TV said that he was sure the plane would break apart. What's sort of funny is that they said the crew didn't acknowledge that anything out of the ordinary had occurred. After the landing the Captain was giving the local weather report as they pulled into the terminal.

Reports are that the plane bounced on touchdown and then the FO pushed the control column forward so that they touched down on the nosewheel first. I feel sorry for the guy. He'll probably get fired and then he'll probably also be SOL for another pilot job with an ailine. He'd be lucky to get a job bush flying the Yukon in a Beaver. The other pilot on the flight was a training captain. Might be two careers down the tubes.

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=176142

[benburch]

1. That aircraft is on the way to the scrapyard!

I do not believe that they will ever be able to make that airworthy again.

[Deja Q]

14. I hope they don't bother spending the money...

I wouldn't want to be on that plane now that it's bent like a banana...

[benburch]

15. Insurance will rule.

If the cost to replace is 14 million, and the cost to repair is 13 million, it will be repaired.

[JohnyCanuck]

16. I doubt they would have the facilities to make a major structural

repair like this in the Dominican Republic. I guess they could bring in engineers and equipment if they had too and it was cheaper in the long run than writing off the plane. Failing that, any pilots up for a ferry flight of a bent 767 from the Dominican Republic to Miami?

[Dr.Phool]

2. Like they taught me

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

[benburch]

We prefer the aircraft be flyable again, though... nt

[dave123williams]

3. Yep; the 2nd greatest thrill in the world is flying a plane...

The 1st is landing it successfully...

[WLKjr]

4. I don't care who landed it, I care about the fact that the

DAMN THING BENDS LIKE THAT.



oh well, this just reinforced my fear of flying.

[tk2kewl]

5. better to bend than to break

[Ready4Change]

8. Anything can be bent/broken.

Depends on the forces applied.

Hell, you can break an ankle stepping off a curb wrong.

Airliners are engineered to take a pounding for a lifetime. They are often flown nearly 24/7/365 exept for maintenance hours, and operated that way for 20+ years.

This amount of damage from a single landing indicates this plane was slammed down so hard that it's amazing the passengers weren't hurt. Faulty piloting, not faulty aircraft, imho.

[wakeme2008]

6. Check this one out

I think it is a Russian plane. Sorry ppl at work Big Boys is normally blocked...


http://www.big-boys.com/articles/landbad.html

But it is funny to watch....

[Dr.Phool]

7. I never made one that bad.

[ohio_liberal]

10. OMG!

If I were on that plane I would definitely need a change of underwear :wow:

[benburch]

13. WOW!

Why in hell wouldn't you abort that one?

The only excuse I could imagine was if the aircraft physically COULD NOT go around again.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

9. Isn't this the kind of performance

that gets you promoted in the kommander kukubananna admin?

[mcscajun]

11. Wow!

Is there any newslink available yet on this? There's someone I'd like to send it to if there is.

[LeftHander]

12. Probably former NW pilots...

I have had the hardest landings ever in NW jets landing in Minneapolis...