Video: ANA Boeing 767 makes HARD landing, visible damage in fuselage…

ANA going for gold in replacing their 767s with 787s

ANA going for gold in replacing their 767s with 787s using methods of ‘testing to destruction’.

I guess ANA have taken the aspect of the 787 ‘flexing‘ in a literal sense and in some ways it will be good for Boeing if their launch customer irons out all the ‘creases’ (creating many obviously on the way):D.

In flight music of this elk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM-y1a1oeCo

If Boeing’s order book is to be taken as Gospel then ANA and JAL have already had deliveries of 787s upto May 2012 and they are in line for many more.

ANA plan to replace their entire fleet of 767s with 787s.

More 737-200s have crashed that 737-300s. Does that mean the aircraft has a habit of crashing? Or is it more down to the crew?

Good thread running on PPRuNe about this incident… http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/488489-air-japan-ana-incident-nrt.html

-Daz

I have not seen the Alitalia and Asiana aircraft, so that SEVEN aircraft that I know about.

Bmused55. What I mean by the aircraft has a habit of doing it is that seven different pilots have damaged six different aircraft in almost the same way. Similar long bodied aircraft, 757,777-300 and indeed 767-400 have not had as many, if any, incidents of fwd fuselage damage due to nose first landings.
It would be interesting as everybody says to see how a long bodied 787 would behave.

Rgds Cking

It reminds me of this incident, in the distant past :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpy4YIMIJMA

Good thread running on PPRuNe about this incident… http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/488489-air-japan-ana-incident-nrt.html

-Daz

At least, this is a testament to the quality of the structural engineering done on Boeing’s part.

I hope they don’t do that to their new 787…

There was a video post a few years ago that showed a 757 (300 I believe) landing in Madeira where you could see a far higher bending moment of the forward fuselage than that TU-144. I can’t seem to find it however.

Reminds me of this Tu-144 landing where you can see the whole fuselage flex!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRr_rlDOIdQ&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL692BD48872C31585

It’s the pilots that have a habit of doing this, not the aircraft.

Would that be repairable?

Yes. The 767-300’s have so much of a habit of doing this Boeing have a standard repair scheme for it. It has to be done by Boeing though!
I can think of five -300’s that have done this, one has done it twice:o

Rgds Cking

Edit: Hear’s another
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Royal-Air-Maroc/Boeing-767-36N-ER/1538735/L/

Would that be repairable?