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| Thread ID: 130568 | 2013-04-14 06:47:00 | Speculate on this - Lion Air Crash, Bali | The Error Guy (14052) | PC World Chat |
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| 1336907 | 2013-04-14 06:47:00 | I'm presuming some of you have read the news of the Lion air 737-800 that crashed on approach to Dempasar (DPS), an interesting crash indeed, especially as most water landing attempts with under wing engines usually end up in disaster with many casualties. From what I have read it seems the plane was making a normal approach but fell short of the runway by some 50m. I have been in and out of Dempasar several times and the first time I thought we'd end up in the ocean, the approach, like most coastal airports, is very shallow. Especially as Dempasar has little terrain/high buildings near the airport First thing that sprang to mind is a fault with the Glide Slope. Purely speculation, but what are your thoughts on this? Frankly I'm amazed that the crash turned out the way it did, as said earlier, usually the engines would dig into the water and rip the plane apart. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1336908 | 2013-04-14 09:53:00 | I give in. :D If he was coming in to land, as they say, there seems an awful lot of water in front of him and how did he stop just off the rocks? Also, I assume he had his landing gear down so apart from the motors being slung under the wings that wouldn't have helped his cause either. Then again I suppose it could have been Chesley B. Sullenberger up to his old tricks. ;) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1336909 | 2013-04-14 10:09:00 | According to the news Lion Air is a budget airline and also there maintenance has not been up too scratch. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1336910 | 2013-04-14 10:10:00 | According to the news Lion Air is a budget airline and also there maintenance has not been up too scratch. :)brand new plane with experienced pilot |
plod (107) | ||
| 1336911 | 2013-04-14 17:52:00 | One shouldnt speculate but most of us do. if any one subscribes to the PPrune forum there is some interesting comments there. I too wondered how an aircraft that size could fly into the shallow rock filled water and sustain such minimum damage. No fire either, no sign of fuel in the water.Initial reports said an over run and the damage cetainly looks like that but eye witnesses including passengers say it was on approach. Guess we will have to wait for the official accident report. |
tut (12033) | ||
| 1336912 | 2013-04-14 18:54:00 | The aircraft was operated by Lion Air, a rapidly expanding budget airline which recently sealed orders for hundreds of new planes, but which is banned from United States and European airspace because of safety concerns. It sounds like it overshot the runway. |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1336913 | 2013-04-14 21:03:00 | Maybe the pilot was a distant cousin of the Costa Concordia captain | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1336914 | 2013-04-14 21:21:00 | I too wondered how an aircraft that size could fly into the shallow rock filled water and sustain such minimum damage. No fire either, no sign of fuel in the water.Initial reports said an over run and the damage cetainly looks like that but eye witnesses including passengers say it was on approach. Guess we will have to wait for the official accident report. The Indonesian officials said it was an overrun, that turned out to be wrong. Since the wing hasn't been damaged (as far as I know) the small fuel spill was probably just from the engines. I seem to recall they got torn off, but that might not be the case, either way it could easily account for a small fuel spill. The report will be interesting on this. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1336915 | 2013-04-14 21:31:00 | Wind Shear I reckon. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1336916 | 2013-04-14 21:47:00 | Wind Shear I reckon. That would make sense with a new plane and experienced pilot. Guess we will have to wait until the "black boxes" are analyzed.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
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