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Username: flightsimer
Posted 2012-10-17 11:39:25 and read 10234 times.
Holy Crap that was close!
Video and pic below
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=002_1350495356
Username: bennett123
Posted 2012-10-18 08:37:33 and read 9842 times.
IMO, the public were allowed WAY to close to a landing aircraft, even before the kangaroo hop.
Username: francoflier
Posted 2012-10-18 09:44:08 and read 9791 times.
That was close...
The onlookers were too close, but they were still outside the fences and far from the displaced threshold.
I don't know how long the runway was, but the approach was just way too low in any case.
Good thing it was its last landing too. The landing gear took quite a beating.
Username: flyingturtle
Posted 2012-10-18 09:48:45 and read 9789 times.
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David
Username: L-188
Posted 2012-10-18 09:49:48 and read 9789 times.
Well he walked away from it so it was a good landing
Seriously any details about the field he landed on? Was it so short he felt it was better not to follow the glideslope laid out by the PAPI? The field clearly has one, he rolls by it at the end of the film
Username: flyingturtle
Posted 2012-10-18 10:15:23 and read 9778 times.
Here's the map....Quoting L-188 (Reply 4):
Seriously any details about the field he landed on?
The asphalt runway is 685 meters long (per Wikipedia). Now I've measured on Google maps:
When landing on RWY 27 (as in the video), the distance from the landing threshold to the end of the runway is 610 meters.
David
Username: Larshjort
Posted 2012-10-18 10:52:07 and read 9749 times.
Landing distance is quoted at 1970ft in Flight 1961. That is 600 meters, so he had to put it right at the start of the runway
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1961/1961%20-%201722.html
Looking at the pictures it looks like some cones were put to show how close spectators were allowed to go, and they were sitting beyond those.
/Lars
[Edited 2012-10-18 10:53:47]
Username: NoUFO
Posted 2012-10-18 10:58:49 and read 9740 times.
Quoting flyingturtle (Reply 5):
the distance from the landing threshold to the end of the runway is 610 meters.
Plenty for the C-160 even if fully loaded.
Username: flyingturtle
Posted 2012-10-18 15:05:27 and read 9655 times.
Quoting Larshjort (Reply 6):
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1961/1961%20-%201722.html
That PDF file also shows a Piaggio PD.808 business jet. Now that's an aircraft I want to cuddle.
Photo © Richard Vandervord
David
Username: L-188
Posted 2012-10-18 15:13:40 and read 9649 times.
Flyingturtle: that is why lears and t-37's shouldnt have sex
Username: rheinwaldner
Posted 2012-10-20 11:40:10 and read 9139 times.
At least the Transall left some stunning rubber marks on that road!
Username: GPHOTO
Posted 2012-10-21 04:29:33 and read 8918 times.
That's why you should never stand under the flightpath close to the end of the runway. You never know when something like this could happen. Even on a good approach, a sudden gust of wind from behind could unexpectedly increase the descent rate in the final seconds.
I bet there were a few 'gusts of wind' all around when this happened....... 
Glad no-one was injured.
Best regards,
Jim
Username: flyingturtle
Posted 2012-10-21 10:04:52 and read 8837 times.
Quoting GPHOTO (Reply 11):
That's why you should never stand under the flightpath close to the end of the runway.
What should the car drivers do?
The runway effectively ends at the rural road.
David
Username: btblue
Posted 2012-12-26 15:50:58 and read 6561 times.
I just saw this come up on the Daily Mail website...
DM Spotting Article
Username: HAWK21M
Posted 2012-12-27 04:00:43 and read 6171 times.
A few feet earlier and the result would have been different....
Username: soon7x7
Posted 2012-12-27 09:46:32 and read 5204 times.
Possibly a bit of hubris there along with the distraction of photogs holding for the $$ shot....Hope this flight crew flies a amphibian if future plans include Maho Beach.
Username: ptrjong
Posted 2012-12-27 09:56:22 and read 5150 times.
Quoting flyingturtle (Reply 12):
What should the car drivers do?
Passing road traffic would have been unlucky, but that doesn't make Jim's advice not to stay under the flightpath less sensible.
Peter
Username: PHX787
Posted 2012-12-27 17:05:01 and read 3591 times.
Quoting HAWK21M (Reply 14):
A few feet earlier and the result would have been different....
Precisely. If that thing landed in anything but asphalt we'd be talking about casualties.
Username: dandaire
Posted 2013-01-03 10:41:37 and read 2596 times.
Reminds me of this video of a Vanguard Merchantman making its final landing at Brooklands in 1996.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmakSwlYLs0
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