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DHL 737-400 crash

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I don't understand what is chilling about the cockpit audio. It's chilling after the crash but fairly normal before.

Would rudder issues cause the plane to be fast and below glide slop? This forum's favorite expert is speculating crew fatigue.

The data we have shows high airspeeds initially and fast descents. Weather condition were wet and near freezing. Could a clogged pitot tube lead pilots to believe their airspeed was low so they maintained a high speed early and ended up stalling near landing?

It's a -400 series airplane so the avionics are possibly less sophisticated.
 
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It's a very rapid roll rate and nose pitch down hence my thoughts about rudder being a factor.

If you went around from 300ft the engines wouldn't have spooled up to max by the time you crossed the threshold.
 
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This video the construction site one( the plane is in the top right corner) and the 3D photo below it seem to indicate it was all rather sudden, if he was a bit low on the glide slope.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1860962916536619452

https://twitter.com/x/status/1861036373869842854

Loss of engine / engine failure maybe?

Hope it wasn't the faulty radar altimeter thing which thought the plan was landing?
 
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Your relatively low power at that stage of the approach and your configured.

It's not very exciting in the SIM. We usually get engine failure during low visibility training at similar height.
 
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It sounds like at least one leading edge slat actuator have been found in the retracted position. If I recall correctly, there has been a second incidence of leading edge slat issues recently.
 
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Ooh, that's not good. Very difficult to counter that at low altitude.
 
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TugboatEng said:
It sounds like at least one leading edge slat actuator have been found in the retracted position. If I recall correctly, there has been a second incidence of leading edge slat issues recently.
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Yea, it looked like the chrome was worn off the shaft of the actuator.
 
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A company I worked for, had one of this aircraft sister ships they were well looked after by Qantas. There were in much better condition than any 737 classic we brought out of the USA, with a very comprehensive cockpit fit out. I wonder if it had one of those pencil whipped eastern European heavy maintenance checks (not that its just a eastern European thing, you can get the same thing out of Florida).
 
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verymadmac said:
you can get the same thing out of Florida).
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A client bought a used gen-set out of Florida.
It was a disaster.
Bolts loose and missing in the drive disk.
The wrong governor. It would not run at 60 Hz.
Other issues.
My client called the salesman to complain;
"You told me that that set had a Miami River overhaul."
Salesman;
"It did. A Miami River overhaul is steam cleaned and painted."
 
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An analysis of the ATC interaction shows error after error after error by the crew in communicating, mostly errors that would result in lower than directed altitudes. Some get corrected, such as a QNH readback error, but they continue to make others.

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DHL 737 crashes short of Vilnius runway

On the 25th of November 2024, a Boeing 737-400 crashed on final approach to Vilnius airport with one fatality. The 31-year-old cargo aircraft, registered in Spain as EC-MFE, was operated by Swiftai…
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