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VEBill

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For those interested. This morning's incident at Halifax airport (CYHZ) with Sky Lease Cargo 4854, 747-400, registration N908AR. Reportedly the four crew were not seriously injured. Happened upon landing. Overshot runway a bit.

Only about 5km from my workplace. My picture, taken from the perimeter fence next to the road.

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Is that a vertical crack in the fuselage?

That'll buff right out
 
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The speculative consensus is that the airframe is a write off; which is sad. But at least nobody was seriously injured.

This cargo flight is a very regular 'lobster run', usually to Asia.
 
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A few years ago an airplane came up short on the runway at the same airport. Looks like most of the fault was with the airline.

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Air Canada 624 incident in 2015 (pictured above) was initially described as a 'hard landing' [?!?]. There were injuries. It was very close to being much worse; the approach was too low and the fuselage just cleared the embankment.

MK Airlines 1602 crash in 2004 was bad. Seven crew killed. That was the one that involved over 50t of lobsters and other seafood.

 
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From what I'm reading the longer runway had construction, the wind was strong, and the weather had a low ceiling with rain. Seems clear cut that the pilots goofed and landed long or otherwise exceeded the capability of the aircraft to stop in time.

Ian Riley, PE, SE
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American Concrete Industries
 
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Certainly, one big question is where on the shorter runway did the airplane land and was that an error on the pilot's part if he landed too deep into the runway.

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Yikes, found out from others that the wind was 260° at 16 knots gusting to 21 knots. This is a 18 knot crosswind and an 11 knot tailwind. I'm sure the 747 can handle the crosswind but a tailwind adds a lot to a landing roll distance.

Looks like they needed to use that runway as the opposite side doesn't have an ILS instrument approach (only GPS approaches, not sure if the aircraft was equipped for those).

Ian Riley, PE, SE
Professional Engineer (ME, NH, VT, CT, MA) Structural Engineer (IL)
American Concrete Industries
 
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VE1BLL; Always amazed by how Canadian newspaper articles seem to be written by intelligent clear minded responsible authors as compared to virtually every American newspaper article - written by clueless idiots.

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"It was to be loaded with live lobster in Halifax before heading to China, with a stop along the way in Alaska."
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Oh the humanity!

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itsmoked said:
VE1BLL; Always amazed by how Canadian newspaper articles seem to be written by intelligent clear minded responsible authors as compared to virtually every American newspaper article - written by clueless idiots.
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They are playing to their audience.
 
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Ouch Spartan!!
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That was a low punch.


Years ago, after a pipeline disaster in Canada, I read a Canadian newspaper account and was floored that it stated diameter, flow, pressure, depth, type of soil, and other conditions during normal ops and then just prior to the disaster. Then I see the above article and realized that first article wasn't just a fluke.




Keith Cress
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Even our Canadian journalists couldn't do much with that bridge in Saskatchewan. grin
They tried but the local authorities didn't give them much to work with.
Bill
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The news today mentions that a back hoe is being used to break it up (or perhaps into sections?).

No pictures yet.

 
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