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Windshear: AA1581 hit runway lights on go around after hard landing
With much attention to air tankers in the West, we seem to have missed this item over the weekend. NTSB reported the aircraft reportedly encountered windshear on final approach, hit runway approach lights followed by a tail strike onto the runway surface. The crew initiated a go around and completed another landing. The aircraft sustained substantial damage. The flight data and cockpit voice recorders were taken to Washington for investigation by the NTSB. (avherald.com) Altro...
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I am a tad confused by the AvHerald report. It speaks of 2 incidents, one last Saturday and one yesterday the 19th, yet NTSB is only opening investigation into the one on the 15th. What gives. Both show to be at CLT.
To boot, CBS is now reporting an A321 door off an AA flight that came off and landed on a CLT golf course.
The interviewee on the news is already angling for his settlement for the trauma of this thing hurtling from the sky and nearly killing him. Looked like a composite lav or hyd. service door that probably weighed less than the attaching hardware.
I guess that is a good reason not to play under an approach path. LOL
Or live under one.
The incident of the 19th is the NTSB release of the report.
Sounds like it was almost a smackdown
