Just had a brief look at a-net this morning and found the thread about the CI MD-11 accident in ’99 when the wing hit the runway and the aircraft flipped over.
Apparently a video exists of the event, filmed by another pilot and the video link is in that thread. I don’t know why, but I clicked on the link and true enough, there is footage there of the accident happening.
Not a nice sight I can tell you but interesting in the fact that footage like this is very rare. I don’t know if I can post the link here, so I suggest you have a look at page one of a-net if you are interested.
All this said, I feel morbid for looking.:(
By: Bmused55 - 9th October 2003 at 13:41
Here ya go folks
its a 9mb file though
By: EWR303 - 8th October 2003 at 19:08
can someone please either pm or email the web site that this is on to have a look.
Me too.
By: Selsport69 - 8th October 2003 at 18:14
can someone please either pm or email the web site that this is on to have a look.
By: Bmused55 - 8th October 2003 at 17:28
the Wing strike must have followed the cause of the crash.. as you can clearly see, the wing does not touch the gound untill after a fire errupts inboard of the right wing
By: skycruiser - 8th October 2003 at 16:16
It was filmed by an off duty Cathay Pilot. It was during a Typhoon here in Hong Kong in 1999. The Captain of the MD-11 was an Italian who retired after the crash. It was indeed a wing stike that caused it to flip over, but it took 7 seconds from the wing stike to the plane to come to rest upside down.
By: Shorty01 - 8th October 2003 at 13:24
I believe this was a hard landing followed by WING separation. Evidently this was not the first time this had happened to an MD11 under similar circumstances, though I suppose if you fly anything into the ground hard enough it will break. Didn’t someone punch the main gear through the wing of an RAF tristar a few years back when they landed “a bit high” ?
By: Bmused55 - 6th October 2003 at 12:56
Truely Horrific.
However, I must say, contrary to all descriptions and accounts on this crash, the right wingtip was clearly above the ground when the wing exploded. It looks like it was a very hard landing, resulting perhaps in an engine strike and gear seperation.
By: Pembo330 - 6th October 2003 at 12:42
Incredible Ren given the fireball in the footage.
By: Ren Frew - 6th October 2003 at 12:36
Amazingly there were only 3 fatalities I gather ?
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