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Cargolux 747 Engine Strikes Runway During Rough Landing

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It’s always impressive to me how durable aircraft are, and how they can handle really rough landings without any issues. Well, here’s a case where an aircraft was damaged on landing…

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 JB
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This reminds me of the PIA A320 that crashed in Karachi in 2020. That plane's engines also scraped the runway (but due to the landing gear not being lowered). The pilot's then did a go around but on the final approach to the next landing attempt, the engines failed and the jet crashed into a residential area. Admittedly the damage to the engines was likely more severe on that case since there was no landing gear lowered, but one has to wonder if that could happen in this case too had this been a twin jet and both the engines had a harder impact.


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Diamond
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Landings in windy conditions are done faster then normal. I haven't been able to find the ATIS at the time, but with gusty cross winds that may tirn to tailwonds, 175 kts for a probably heavily loaded 747 (short flight - low fuel gives oppertunity for full cargo load) is not so crazy. It helps keep planes safe from airspeed loss from gusts on final. Under normal circumstances a plane will have an approach speed of vref + 5 knots (vref being essentially the touchdown speed), but in windy conditions, vref +15 is possible. Just requires a long enough runway (LUX has plenty), a shallower flair / harder touchdown, and a ton of attention paid to floating.


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 Adil
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Perhaps "Captain" Joe will update us on his channel?


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 Ulli
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I guess was the same lady F/O who did the worst hard landing in Condor few years back.
She is very well known from the hard landing


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