I woke up and thought I was still half-dreaming.

Laying in bed, half awake, it felt like that strange moment when you ‘trip’ in bed, only over and over again. I still thought I was half in a dream when I heard house alarms and neighbours shouting. I lay still for a few seconds afterwards scared sh*tless. Being in my state of half-awakeness, I don’t remember hearing much during the shake.

Hi Rab
The Qatar is a A340.
Yes very nice shots in bad conditions

Paul

lol….you’re both wrong…mwahahaha:diablo:

Great photos, and I love the wingflex in #4!

I don’t know the 767 too well, but an air intake by the tail is open – does that mean the APU was on?

From the photos reverse thrust was still available, as were the spoilers, so it wasnt anywhere near a complete hydraulics loss. These sort of incidents are not uncommon, and was only drawn out in the way that it was becuase the fire service sprayed media onto the undercarriage – I should think it would have been over sooner had the fire service not done that.

East Mids/Luton/Blackbushe/Farnborough/Heathrow/Luton/East Mids between 0300- 2350 hours

You – loooony. You got some very nice photos though out of it! 🙂

Stunningly beautiful photos, Paul.

Short Haul 767s have never operated the MAN-JFK flight, there is no chance at all of that happening.

As for the route passing to AA, there is no chance of that happening any time soon.

Which of the 767s in the fleet are short haul configured?

Is PMN1 the same person as PMN?

No, I think this one is an imposter.

Although actually, its quite possible that PMN is the imposter…?

The other disadvantages to the tail mounted design that I can think of off the top of my head is that the fuel system onboard has to be more complex than a wing mounted design. Most of the fuel is carried in the wings, so the fuel has to travel further to get to the engines.

Also, (although this has pretty much been mitigated in todays aircraft – and very trivial), its likely to be louder right at the back of the aircraft on a tail mounted design.

Also, on a tail mounted design, the engines are further from the ground so its possible that the likelihood of engines being hit or damaged by FOD is lower.

And my coffee spilt over my trousers when the pilot was stopping us from turning into a hurtling metallic deathball. Well, they’re going to pay through the nose for it. How dare they?”

The courts will throw that case out, when they realise that all tray tables should have been stowed for the landing, and the passenger shouldnt have been drinking his coffee on touchdown. 😀 :p

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I can’t believe that the accident lead to some passengers developing sall these serious psychological ‘problems’ – yes, I can see that some people may develop some problems but surely not as wide ranging as has been claimed. As has been pointed out before elsewhere –

According to statements, most of the passengers did not realise the aircraft was in trouble or anything was wrong until the evacuation command was given. They believed that they had landed and everything was normal. Therefore, they did not spend an horrendous x minutes in-flight, knowing that the aircraft was in trouble, and each and everyone of those passengers and crew having to deal with the possibility that they would die within minutes. Had it been the case that passengers did spend time dealing with that possibility, then surely they would have more ground to stand on.

PMN in what had a very real potential to be one of the most horriffic accidents in the history of commercial aviation in the UK

– A spinechilling sentence.