Two Plane Crashes Today (Sunday 3/22/09)

[cancidas]

NRT has had some pretty sporty winds recently. here are a couple of arrivals filmed in Feb on 34R which is the shorter of the 2 NRT runways

WOW! this may come as a shock to those who know me, but in a rare moment of relative sanity let me say publicly that if heavy airplanes (B744 and MD11) are getting tossed around the sky like that....






...then i will keep my keister on the ground with the airplane/ helo safely tied down! holy crap that's windy!

[Planesntrains]

Forgive me guys if this is a stoopid question. Shows how much of a rookie I am. But why didn't the FedEx crew abort the landing after the first hard bounce? Were conditions that adverse or did they just think they could nail it when they touched down again?

[PhilDernerJr]

They may have tried to gun the engines and go around, but they were already close to stall speed and it takes time for the engines to gain enough power to liftoff again....they simply didn't have enough time.

[Planesntrains]

They may have tried to gun the engines and go around, but they were already close to stall speed and it takes time for the engines to gain enough power to liftoff again....they simply didn't have enough time.

Makes sense. Thanks Phil. Guess the poor guys really did, as the cliche goes, "never even have a chance".