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It's actually fairly easy to hit the tail on a 321. >7.5* of pitch in the flare will do it. Which sounds high but is easy to do if you are landing on a higher elevation airport, it's hot out, and the aircraft is heavy. The same technique to land at a lower elevation will generally cause you to need to flare right at that 7.5* mark in order to avoid completely planting it on the runway. Most operators suggest landing at Flaps 3 vs. full as to my knowledge, at least with my company (largest operator of narrowbody Airbus in the world) there has never been a tail strike with a flaps 3 landing.
A bomb would've most likely been in the cargo hold. MAYBE the pax compartment. But having the tail section separate like it did? My uneducated but logical guess is the tail section detached in flight. Glad they have the boxes already, we'll know soon.
That begs the question how many planes are in service which have had a tail strike? Is there an outside agency which can pull an aircraft from service permanently?
Ok, so recorders cannot be opened until ALL of the parties involved are present. Irish rep arrived today. Plane was registered in Ireland.
NO SIGNS of any explosives so far were found outside or inside the plane debris. No signs of fire too.
Company plane owner claims there was "catastrophic dehermetization" of the plane, resulting in 300 km/h speed reduction in matter of 1 minute and fall. Same rendered crew inoperable.
That is Kalgymair version. They keep pressing towards foul play.
Now experts start talking about accident plane had in 2001(?) when tail hit runway at take off. They even showed 3D computer graphic of hypothetical tail section separating from fuselage during assent. Word is, such accident would have required full blown repair.
As I said before, allegedly that repair was done.
Once again, until registrators are not opened, it's everyone's guess.
Wow, tail fell off in flight... that is tragic. Now people know why tail strikes are so serious and require immediate return.
Echos of JAL 123 and China Air Lines 611.
The Russians are not to blame they did not do the maintenance after the tail strike.
The tail strike was in 2001 in Cairo. By all accounts a very serious hard landing with excessive nose up. It dropped like a rock from 50 feet up 700/ft min. most normal landings are about 100-300 ft/ min at touch down. When the tail strike occurred the jet flew for MEA which is based in Beirut Lebanon. No one knows who did the repairs but rumor is Airbus itself did the repairs as the damage was deemed too bad to be carried out by local repair facilities.
I had had no idea that another passengeraircraft crashed in the last Sunday. Did anybody have any idea why they’d fallen from the skies more frequent these modern days? I didn’t think the WWII military crafts falling in the rates liken these past two years.
So anyway, I had no idea what happened. And I did not read thatnews. Therefore, if it wasn’t a terrorist attack, I did have a bit of aviation accident history inputting for this discussion. That you might say an air plane dissolving like the papers shreds in the middle of the skies would be a joke. But that specific joke did happen on a turbulence passenger carrier in an Asian country. There was a door in that plane somehow blew open in the skies, then the whole aircraft literary dissolved. And that plane was used in the somewhat international flight – Taiwan to Mainland.
Therefore, I was just letting you knew – sheet happens.
This was a severely damaged bird and my guess is the repair slowly developed cracks and finally separated..........95% the tail strike is the cause..........the A300 series were known to be a little delicate in the tail section anyway........AA lost one out of NYC years ago when the co-pilot punched the rudder too hard and the tail snapped off.
That begs the question how many planes are in service which have had a tail strike? Is there an outside agency which can pull an aircraft from service permanently?
Lots and lots out there. Tail strikes aren't all that uncommon.
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