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MD 11 crashes in Japan

Posted: 23 Mar 2009, 09:05
by Garry Russell
Nasty

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 958367.stm

My thoughts an condolances to those involved


Garry

Re: MD 11 crashes in Japan

Posted: 23 Mar 2009, 09:36
by WhisperJet
Shocking footage of how the crash developped:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHHXcZLjOnI

Re: MD 11 crashes in Japan

Posted: 23 Mar 2009, 09:41
by Garry Russell
Cheers

The footage of the crash is also in the link I posted

Garry

Re: MD 11 crashes in Japan

Posted: 23 Mar 2009, 10:10
by DaveB
Shocking :o I suppose the saving grace, should there be one, is that the flight was cargo and not pax.

ATB

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Re: MD 11 crashes in Japan

Posted: 23 Mar 2009, 10:14
by forthbridge
:-(

Bad, sad news for all concerned.

Re: MD 11 crashes in Japan

Posted: 23 Mar 2009, 11:02
by WhisperJet
Garry Russell wrote:Cheers

The footage of the crash is also in the link I posted

Garry
Sorry Garry, I didn't get that.

Nick

Re: MD 11 crashes in Japan

Posted: 23 Mar 2009, 11:13
by TSR2
Very sad :-(

Re: MD 11 crashes in Japan

Posted: 23 Mar 2009, 15:24
by Hot_Charlie
Nasty incident.

The previously posted links only appear to show the final "landing".

The CNN footage shows the first two touchdowns as well - the edit that the BBC have shown can be quite misleading without the 5 seconds before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avx1rn47 ... re=related

Re: MD 11 crashes in Japan

Posted: 23 Mar 2009, 17:21
by DaveB
Tks for that HC. It does explain a little more how the aircraft got into the state it was in on the BBC footage ;-)

ATB

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Re: MD 11 crashes in Japan

Posted: 23 Mar 2009, 20:57
by TobyV
DaveB wrote:Shocking :o I suppose the saving grace, should there be one, is that the flight was cargo and not pax.

ATB

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True Dave, watching that reminded me a lot of the DC-10 that crashed at Sioux City 20 years ago.