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Dude, where's your gear?!
Notice just how close the crew lowers the gear in relation to the airport. (www.youtube.com) Altro...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This flew in from Memphis, so it would have flown North from KMEM, then swung 90° West to line up with RWY 28. 10 miles out would be over Lake Michigan.
That'd tie up KORD a good while... fat MD and 5000 FedEx boxes scattered all over the tarmac. The good news is we wouldn't need the black box to know what went wrong.
That much is certain.
yes they would of; it would have taken them three months to reach the same conclusion that we all would have reached on day one...lol
On the lighter side just think how much fuel he saved................
What is the stall speed on that airplane with the gear up, and flaps set at approach?. And I wonder what the calculated Vref was? Think about it! Could they fly Vref +5 with the gear up and flaps at approach that close to the end of the runway without stalling? Vref is a calculated speed reference for landing based on several factors but assumes gear down and flaps down to landing configuration. Obviously this crew was flying well above Vref in that confirguration, or they would have recieved a stall warning. Since stall speed for gear up ,flaps approach is higher than the Vref speed for landing gear down and flaps down. If one engine failed at that point the airspeed would have deteriated rapidly and the air craft would have stalled. Because the stall recovery precedure would call for max power flaps approach. Now if the Vref is 145 kts. the sink rate is around 750 - 850 fpm .
This is the result of poor crew procedure, deviating from standard procedure,checklist, I have witnessed more than one crew in the simulators set up there aircraft just the one in the video and crash when an engine quits at dangerous airspeeds/configurations close to the end of the runway.These size aircraft need room and professional cockpit management. The crew in the video was at the proper position to call for flaps to land. I myself personaly would not wait that late in the approach to call for flaps to land, but only after the PNF selected landing flaps that the warning came on and then jumped on the gear handle , because I wonder how much time remained before touch down and time to completed gear down. It is good practice if not required procedure to have your aircraft checklist complete and configured, stabilized, a few miles out.
This is the result of poor crew procedure, deviating from standard procedure,checklist, I have witnessed more than one crew in the simulators set up there aircraft just the one in the video and crash when an engine quits at dangerous airspeeds/configurations close to the end of the runway.These size aircraft need room and professional cockpit management. The crew in the video was at the proper position to call for flaps to land. I myself personaly would not wait that late in the approach to call for flaps to land, but only after the PNF selected landing flaps that the warning came on and then jumped on the gear handle , because I wonder how much time remained before touch down and time to completed gear down. It is good practice if not required procedure to have your aircraft checklist complete and configured, stabilized, a few miles out.