Ein Flugbericht über das unerwartet plötzliche Ende eines Fluges...

[markus]

Ich habe per Mail einen Bericht zur geglückten Notlandung der DHL Maschine im Irak erhalten. Vielleicht ist dieser schon bekannt, möchte Ihn aber Euch trotzdem nicht vorenthalten. Er zeigt doch wie es möglich ist mit extremst beschädigtem Flugzeug noch eine sichere Landung zu realisieren:

 

Testimony to an A300B4 and his crewTo those of you who are wondering what happened to the DHL A300B4coming_out_of Baghdad last Saturday, take a look. Aircraft was hit at 8000 FT, lost_ALL_hydraulics and therefore had no flight controls, actually did a missed_approach using only engine thrust and eventually (after about16mins)_landed_heavily on runway 33L at Baghdad. This was fortunate because with no steering the aircraft veered of the runway to the left, had they landed on 33R veering to the left would have taken them straight into the fire_station.

 

The aircraft then travelled about 600 metres through soft sandtaking out a razor wire fence in the process, see LH engine pic, and came_to rest almost at the bottom of the sloping area between the runway and a_taxiway. _All three crew evacuated safely down the second slide, the first_one tore on the razor wire.

I flew in with a team on Tuesday in one of our_Metros and some special equipment we'd had made locally in Bahrain and_some_provided by Airbus. Using a USAF D9 Caterpillar pulling a 100 metre cable fitted to the back end of each bogie and a nice new aircraft pushback tug_with a towbar on the nose gear, we were able to remove the aircraft just_on_dusk on Tuesday night and towed it to an Iraqi Airways graveyard on one_side of the terminal. We stayed overnight in the USAF camp on the airport and_went back to the aircraft on Wednesday morning to allow the insurance_survey_to be completed and then secure the aircraft. Basically, LH engine rotates in a fashion, has ingested lots of razor wire and is knackered. RH engine_has seized, probably from ingesting loads of sand at maximum reverse_thrust_and inlet cowl has unacceptable lip damage, probably from hitting the_razor_wire fence posts.

 

 

The No 8 axle appears to be cracked as the wheel sits at_an odd angle. The bulk of the damage is the LH wing. About 3 metres of_rear_spar is missing in front of the outboard flap, the wing has bulged upwards and downwards where the initial explosion appears to have occurred, one_O/B_flap track is hanging in the breeze and one has a small piece of flap_still_attached, the rest of the flap is nonexistent. The pics show the huge_crack_that has occurred to the rear spar inboard of where the spar has burnt_away,_possibly from loads on the wing during the landing process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The front spar_appears to be intact. The point of entry pics show where a projectile_entered Tank 1A, which was full of fuel, and, after it ignited, proceeded to_burn away at the spar.The fuel tank ribs in the area directly in front of_the O/B flap are burnt almost 50% through.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The crew obviously did a_fantastic job in getting the aircraft back on to the ground and one can only_assume that it was most fortunate that they were not aware of the state of_the wing as they could not see it from the cockpit. It also says a lot for_the structure of the aircraft that it withstood the impact of the_(whatever is finally determined to have hit it).

I'm sure there will be lots of other photos and videos flying around the_net, but at least these ones are genuine. The worst part for us was the_airport was shut down on Wednesday and we had to be driven in an_armour-plated Landcruiser Troop Carrier from Baghdad to Balad, 60miles to_the north, from where we flew back to Bahrain in our Metro again.____ I trust_you will all appreciate just how lucky these guys were.DHL International Aviation,Bahrain.

[Adi]

Original von Markus

...Notlandung der LTU Maschine im Irak erhalten...

 

Meinst wohl eher die DLH :)

 

Interessante Bilder

[markus]

Nein ADI der DHL :) Werde es korrigieren...

[Adi]

Nein, zu dumm von mir, so ein doofer Flüchtigkeitsfehler :D :), hehe

 

Gruss

 

Adi

[Hergi]

Original geschrieben von Adi

Nein, zu dumm von mir, so ein doofer Flüchtigkeitsfehler :D :), hehe

 

Hör e mal was würdest du denn sagen wenn Swiss im Irak notlanden müsste? :001: :004: ;) ;) ;)

 

Nein im Ernst:

Das sind ja "interessante" Bilder, ich kannte sie noch nicht...

Sehr heftig...:eek:

[Adi]

Das nenn ich Airbus Qualität! Toller Flieger.

 

Hoffentlich gibt's nicht wieder Airbus-Boeing-Diskussionen wegen diesem Statement.

 

Ob's ne B767 ausgehalten hätte kann man wohl nicht bestimmen.

 

@Hergi: Hä?

 

Adi

[Hans Tobolla]

Naja,

 

das hat wohl weniger mit Qualität zu tun, sondern mehr mit dem Glück, dass die Maschine bei den Beschädigungen noch einigermaßen steuerbar gewesen ist und nicht sofort explodierte.

 

Hans

[Walter Fischer]

zwei Dreistreifer? Was kann man daraus folgern?

Danke Markus für diese Sendung!

 

Gruss Walti, 35 Jahre fast Unfallfrei...

[Ueli Zwingli]

Erschreckende Bilder von dieser Landung. Sie erinnern mich an die Landung einer DC10 in Sioux City vor einigen Jahren, die auch die Hydraulik verloren hatte. Leider verlief die Landung nicht so gut, einige Passagiere kamen dabei ums Leben.