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What Happened To The Qantas 744 At Perth?  
User currently offlineBoeing 777-400 From United States, joined May 1999, 124 posts, RR: 1
Posted (9 years 2 months 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 258 times:

just like the topic what happened to the 747-400 recently at perth?

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User currently offlineVjet From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (9 years 2 months 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 212 times:

As far as I am aware, the 747 was landing from Sydney on its way to Jo'burg. It was a very windy and stormy day with gusts of wind up to and over 100km per hour. Just as it was about to land, a gust of wind caught the plane causing its right no.4 engine (I believe but cld be wrong) to make contact with the runway.

QF had to call in another plane for the flight to Jo'burg but no passengers injured.

User currently offlineKaitak From Ireland, joined Aug 1999, 7513 posts, RR: 18
Reply 2, posted (9 years 2 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 174 times:		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

The aircraft was actually a 747-200B, VH-EBS


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User currently offlineNight Hawk From Australia, joined Jul 1999, 273 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (9 years 2 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 167 times:

Hi There

Here is all the details I have regarding the incident in Perth. I was at the airport at the time but unfortunately didnt have my camera :-(

The plane approached on runway 21 and during the entire approach was buffeted but crosswinds at 30 gusting 40 kts. The plane was forced to go around and made another attempt, this time on runway 24 which faces more into the wind. Again the pilot had to deal with these strong winds but the crosswind component was reduced to 20 gusting 25 kts because he was facing more into the wind than last time. A gust of wind caught the plane just as he was about to touch down causing the number 1 engine to strike the runway.

The pilot did a really good job landing on the centerline because if he had of been on the side of the runway the engine could have dug into the ground causing a major disaster.

Regards

Greg
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