Heavy landing at London City.

I just want to criticize the title. Wouldn’t “hard landing” or “acute attitude landing” be more appropriate than “heavy landing”. I think it would be more technically correct, and not cause alarm about a mother in law. 😉 It wouldn’t be the first time she scraped her tail.

I think it’s very important to remember that not everyone on these forums works in aviation and is familiar with what would be regarded as the most ‘technically correct’ terminology, and at the end of the day, is it really that important?

I wonder how the pilot who was flying at the time feels. Is it just accepted that hard landings like this will happen from time to time?

Paul

Swiss CRJ100 is rumoured to have moved back to LCY this week, any confirmation?

CRJ100? lol

Yup, I think it has gone back into service now.

Swiss CRJ100 is rumoured to have moved back to LCY this week, any confirmation?

Thanks Hot Charlie:cool:

James

Where abouts was the Red Bull temporary airfield? And will it do test flights at LCY?

Here

Wonder if that area will be a new part of LCY for fixing aircraft?

James

So i guess the captain and first officer will be having tea and biscuits with the chief pilot then……

Watch it move, slowly! Here is the vid.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/09/24/216951/video-and-pictures-swiss-has-removed-damaged-avro-rj100-on-floating-pontoon-at-london-city.html

Plane has gone, anybody see it go? Floated off on a barge to the north Royal Dock area, location Red Bull temporary airfield. Repair will take 14 weeks and a temporary hangar will be erected.

Where abouts was the Red Bull temporary airfield? And will it do test flights at LCY?
Thought ‘Ouch My **** Hurts’ would be a great title :rolleyes: 😀

James

Plane has gone, anybody see it go? Floated off on a barge to the north Royal Dock area, location Red Bull temporary airfield. Repair will take 14 weeks and a temporary hangar will be erected.

Ah, the benefit of hindsight, must be 20/20 always. How about ‘tail scrape’ or ‘Swiss embarrassment’, anyway point taken and thread title adjustment is beyond my powers!

I just want to criticize the title. Wouldn’t “hard landing” or “acute attitude landing” be more appropriate than “heavy landing”. I think it would be more technically correct, and not cause alarm about a mother in law. 😉 It wouldn’t be the first time she scraped her tail.

It looks nasty, but i don’t think it’s destined to become soda cans just yet

The underground is saying the plane will be repaired although at a different location (and it won’t be flying for almost four months). Should be interesting to see its’ ground removal.

Wonder if it go by Barge? and I see this is me Favorite BAe 146 livery from Swiss the Star colours 🙁

James

The underground is saying the plane will be repaired although at a different location (and it won’t be flying for almost four months). Should be interesting to see its’ ground removal.

Tailstrikes can be deviously deceptive. An aircraft might look fine, but the stress throughout the aircraft can sometimes be horrendous, neccessitating a perfectly fine looking aircraft to be scrapped seemingly unneccessarily.

My information is that the landing has stressed twenty frames of the aircraft and this will be the dilemma in deciding whether it can undergo a one-off ferry flight to a maintenance facility.

I am not at all an aircraft engineer, but judging from the pics this does not seem a write-off. It’s merely a tailscrape, have seen planes in worse conditions getting repaired. Only thing I can imagine being a mayor is that LCY is an airport with limited space and even more limited mintenance fascilities.