apparently a SAS A320 made a tailstrike on take off in Shanghai and damaged the aircraft. It is now in Toulouse for repair. According to the article there was 200pax on board.
My question is since when did SAS start flying Copenhagen - Shanghai with A320 and at the same time manage to carry 200pax. Must be a super version of the A320 or something...
Pe@rson From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 18826 posts, RR: 54 Reply 1, posted (7 years 8 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 13713 times:
When I was in SIN, I saw a Swiss 320. Swiss does not, of course, fly this machine to SIN or anywhere in the Far East, but for a special occasion or charter. Indeed, in this instance a musical group were being flown. I suspect it was a similar thing re. the SAS machine.
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Breiz From France, joined Mar 2005, 1808 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (7 years 8 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 13629 times:
Quoting Pe@rson (Reply 1): When I was in SIN, I saw a Swiss 320. Swiss does not, of course, fly this machine to SIN or anywhere in the Far East, but for a special occasion or charter. Indeed, in this instance a musical group were being flown. I suspect it was a similar thing re. the SAS machine.
Apart from the fact that SAS does not operate any A320.
That may be at best an A321 if it is not really an A330 or A340.
Breiz From France, joined Mar 2005, 1808 posts, RR: 2 Reply 8, posted (7 years 8 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 13513 times:
Quoting JMJAirways (Thread starter): apparently a SAS A320 made a tailstrike on take off in Shanghai and damaged the aircraft
According to a question asked (and not answered) on SAS Flight Operations website early September, the incident occured in August at Shanghai, and it was an A340 (which sounds very logical), but which one ?
Scanorama From Australia, joined Jan 2005, 111 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (7 years 8 months 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 13093 times:
It was indeedly an A340. I remember reading a post somewhere (probably on a.net forum) or a newspaper article that an SK 343 had a tailstrike in Shanghai.
LN-MOW From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 1896 posts, RR: 15 Reply 10, posted (7 years 8 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 12944 times:
SAS A340 LN-RKF did indeed have a tailstrike in Shanghai on August 24. They had 243 pax on board and returned to Shanghai after being airborne for about two hours.
The aircraft was ferried to TLS on Sept. 5 and is expected to be back in traffic around Sept 27-28 ...
The lack of an aircraft has caused numerous cancellations on SAS' long haul network.
Wrighbrothers From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2005, 1875 posts, RR: 10 Reply 12, posted (7 years 8 months 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 12606 times:
Quoting Scorpio (Reply 3): What, and they crammed people into the toilets, aisles, cockpit and cargo hold to get 200 in?
Yes , it's called Ryan Air
Quoting Lazyshaun (Reply 6): Methinks theres something wrong with this article...
Just a wee bit inaccurate , It always makes me laugh how stupid and/ or inaccurate the press can be.
Quoting LN-MOW (Reply 10): They had 243 pax on board and returned to Shanghai after being airborne for about two hours.
The aircraft was ferried to TLS on Sept. 5 and is expected to be back in traffic around Sept 27-28 ...
Why was it airborne for 2 hours before it landed , didn't they know , or was it because the pilots thought that they could make it back but there was a problem in-flight ?
And also , why was the aircraft only put into maintinece on Sep 5th when it was struck on Aug 24th ?
Any info is much apprechiated
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AirPacific747 From Denmark, joined May 2008, 2091 posts, RR: 23 Reply 21, posted (7 years 8 months 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 10693 times:
Quoting 747400F (Reply 20): LN-RKF it did strike, then circled for 2� hours before landing with full emergency services. A friend was on board - not very funny. 264 pax on board
2� hours?! why so long? was there that much traffic? or couldn't they dump the fuel?
Comorin From United States of America, joined May 2005, 4671 posts, RR: 17 Reply 22, posted (7 years 8 months 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 10549 times:
What causes a modern airliner with well-trained pilots to tailstrike? Did they rotate too soon?
I thought take-offs in a 340 were so simple a Caveman could do it...
BEG2IAH From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 827 posts, RR: 12 Reply 23, posted (7 years 8 months 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 9982 times:
Maybe those pilots were pissed from all the comments about A340's bad take off performance, so they wanted to show the world that it can actually take off like a rocket. It seems that they got carried away.
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FlySSC From France, joined Aug 2003, 7313 posts, RR: 61 Reply 24, posted (7 years 8 months 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 9859 times:
Quoting JMJAirways (Reply 7): But still it is not possible for a A320 to make that journey with 200pax !?
Quoting A360 (Reply 11): No! Lol! Not even with 100 pax!
Of course they could ! (not with 200 PAX) ... with two en route stops !
Nouvelair Tunisie is flying a A320 between TUN and YUL ... (refueling stop at KEF).
25 AirPacific747: but seriously, you don't need to be able to take off like an F-16 when its a commercial airliner.. pax don't care, except a few aviation enthusiasts.
26 N1120A: No, it wasn't one of those either You can't put 200 PAX in an A320, let alone fly it that far with 100 One of the main reasons SQ dumped their A340s
27 JMJAirways: Haha... I like that one... ! Best regards
28 Christiaan: It was an A340 and have had to cancel approx 12 days of ARN-ORD because of the Tailstrike.[Edited 2005-09-19 04:00:56] There were rumours of over-rota
29 HS-LTA: http://bbs.feeeco.com/cache/topic-0016-743575.html This is the photo taken by Shanghai Spotter.
30 Maersk737: Minor repairs were made in Shanghai. They had to make sure, it was safe to ferry the aircraft to France Cheers Peter
31 StarFlyer: The media always get this wrong. Seems quite funny. 200 people on a a320, how many does easyjet cram in?
32 JMJAirways: I've heard the same... Maybe that's why they don't want to talk about it... Best regards
33 Intothinair: Yes indeed. That was on the route ZRH-KUL. They dumped fuel over the black forest, obvously it all evaporated before reaching the ground, before turn
34 FBU 4EVER!: Latest reports mention the fact that the pilots may have entered the Zero Fuel Weight instead of the Take Off Weight in the Take Off Data Computer.Thi
36 SK973: FBU 4Ever is correct! ZFW instead of GW was entered in the FMGC and with a difference of about 70 tonnes it gave a Vr that was about 20 kts lower than
37 AirPacific747: If you read what I wrote, you will find out that I did not talk about that at all. I was talking about that the 340 never crashes due to lack of perf
38 CPH757: The Danish newspaper "Jyllandsposten" today post that the A340-300 had 244 passengers on board and 12 crew members. The aircraft have been out of serv
39 JMJAirways: WoW 100million DKK is a lot ! Best regards
40 JFKviaPHX: Another A320 incident the media is trying to exploit. At least they are incidents and not crashes. Few if any people get hurt as compared to the recen
41 AirPacific747: WOW! how can it be so much?? Not good for SAS they are already in financial trouble
42 Christiaan: Latest report from SAS is that the Crew put the ZIP weight in instead of actual Weight. Caused Over rotation and tail strike.
43 FBU 4EVER!: LN-RKF is now back in service and is flying CPH-PEK-CPH right now.100 million kr is the cost of the repair plus loss of revenue from cancelled flights
44 JMJAirways: Any insurance can help ? How does this works with insurance and Airlines ? Best regards
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