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A visitor from United Kingdom posted Thu December 29, 2011: The chances of getting a shot like this must be few and far between - usually when one has no camera at the ready!
A visitor from - posted Fri September 9, 2011: Look at the flaps, not fully deployed. This bird was certainly taking off and not landing.
A visitor from - posted Thu May 19, 2011: To the person who says they're 'going blind"; the left gear is there, however it is harder to see because it blends into the shadow.
A visitor from United States posted Tue March 22, 2011: I am going blind in my old age BUT i dont see any landing gear on the left side of this plane..
A visitor from - posted Mon February 14, 2011: Boom!
A visitor from - posted Mon November 29, 2010: Lucky...
A visitor from Switzerland posted Fri November 26, 2010: Wow! According to the position the plane has on runway 16, it must be a take off. I wonder why he is in such a hurry to become airborne, he still has about 1000m of runway in front of him...
A visitor from France posted Mon November 8, 2010: Nice tail strike ! Tail strike on landing, never heard of that. This clearly looks like a take-off, and the photographer talked about dumping fuel, that is, after the plane took to the air ! When you're rotating usually you're committed to your take-off, not enough runway left for a safe abort. About the flaps, I will not say if they're at the good setting, but I will say that the plane should not let you take-off without flaps and slats (take-off warning system), unless there is a malfunction (see Spanair crash). Usually a tail-strike is due to the pilot rotating too strongly, too early, or the weight and balance being wrong.
A visitor from Sweden posted Tue July 6, 2010: Of course it's a takeoff otherwise it would have been more flaps down... remember that to the next time you should decide if its a landing or takeoff
A visitor from Mexico posted Mon July 5, 2010: Ooopss!!
A visitor from - posted Tue May 25, 2010: This is NOT a landing!!! Look at the left landing gear (our perspective). It hasn't made contact with the ground yet, therefore the gear should still be in its angled idle position as is the norm for all 777's. Even if the gear has just touched the ground then why isn't there any smoke?? Therefore this is just a tail-strike take-off.
A visitor from United States posted Sat April 17, 2010: I'm guessing he came back to the airport for an emergency landing full with fuel. The Vref (final approach speed) for a landing at max takeoff weight can be VERY high, like 180 knots or more. The flight computer will only extend the flaps if you are below the safe speed for that flap setting. The pilot probably had flaps 40 selected, but the speed was too high and the computer wouldn't let it happen. Ideally, if you have the time, you want to dump fuel. This will give you a good (slow) Vref for final and allow a slow enough speed for full flaps.
A visitor from United States posted Fri April 2, 2010: Gives new meaning to the word "tail-dragger".
A visitor from Brazil posted Wed March 17, 2010: Whoa!Great shot!Are this take off or landing? Real good shot!Rare photo man! Rafael Dinelli
A visitor from United States posted Fri January 15, 2010: "V1." "Ok, rotating. Hmm, she no take off. Rotating some more. She still on ground. Rotating some MORE. Hey, what's that vibration? Ummm, how come flaps are zero? Oh, $@%&!!!!!"
A visitor from Spain posted Sun December 27, 2009: Great photo!
A visitor from - posted Sat December 19, 2009: Flaps look to be extending. Time for this pilot to repeat his Private Pilot training course.haha
A visitor from United States posted Sun December 6, 2009: "How to make a bad day worse." Wow! I've never seen any airliner, let alone a 777, make a 3-point landing! It looks like the leading and trailing edge flaps are in transition as though the crew realized too late that they weren't down. Some guys find out about the back side of the power curve the hard way. Goes to show that just because you've handled an emergency (fuel dumping mentioned in another comment) doesn't mean your problems are behind you.
A visitor from United States posted Sun September 13, 2009: As an a&p I love unusual photos of aircraft, either because of the composition or lighting, or just what the plane is doing. great job catching it at the right moment.
A visitor from United States posted Mon August 10, 2009: Haha nice, only the 77 is sexy enough to bang ole mother earth. Thats what i call a risky quicky :)
A visitor from United States posted Thu July 30, 2009: This photo was a once in a lifetime shot. I have been in the industry for over 20 yrs and have never seen this, awesome!
A visitor from Denmark posted Sun July 19, 2009: First i thought, it was a no flap landing, but if you look closer on the planes left wing, you can see that it has about 20 degrees of flap(i think) :-D so missing flaps isnt was causes the tailstrike
A visitor from Switzerland posted Tue July 7, 2009: When I was flight attendant I was sitting in the rear part of the aircraft during a tailstrike. It was a "good" experience!!!
A visitor from United Kingdom posted Wed June 3, 2009: Good work, sour bum for them at the back
A visitor from Netherlands posted Sun May 24, 2009: If you sit on the back of the plane ..
A visitor from United States posted Sun February 8, 2009: Think of the jarring thimp when the front wheels contacted
A visitor from Costa Rica posted Tue January 27, 2009: Really good photograft
A visitor from France posted Sun January 25, 2009: Good job! nice pic
A visitor from Iran, Islamic Republic Of posted Sat January 17, 2009: Thank you for this photo.
A visitor from Brazil posted Fri January 2, 2009: The pilot of the Boeing 777 Malaysia Airlines is courageous huh? He landed the plane virtually (if it was not well) by dragging the back on the track. There are hours in cold blood.
A visitor from - posted Tue November 4, 2008: TAILSTRIKE!!!!! That can't be good for the plane... See the (maybe) BAe 146/Avro RJ to the right side??? Great shot!!!
A visitor from - posted Sat September 20, 2008: When they build an aircraft and the have to find out the V-loft, they always do this!!! excellent picutre by the way, a once in a life time picture!
A visitor from Mauritius posted Tue September 9, 2008: Hey all! Thanks for all the comments and some Infos: this incident happened during take off run from runway 16 in Zurich it went over the german black forest to dump 70t of fuel and emergency landed on Runway 14 with all the fire brigade standing by. Thomas Luethi
A visitor from United States posted Tue September 9, 2008: Take off or landing, no flaps is the reason for this tailstrike. Pilot needs to go back to the old, beat up C-172 at flying school! This might be a training or test flight, though.
A visitor from United Kingdom posted Fri August 8, 2008: A tailstrike! I hope nobody was injured and this nice 777 not too hard damaged.
A visitor from United States posted Fri August 1, 2008: Scratch one Bogey!
A visitor from Australia posted Tue July 29, 2008: Considering the lack of flaps, I'd say Takeoff. Also, i've never seen a plane flare that much on landing. Nevertheless, a great picture!
A visitor from United Kingdom posted Fri July 25, 2008: Oh Oh :O somebody had lose his job!
A visitor from Germany posted Fri July 4, 2008: Very good photo !!! was it takeoff or landing ?
A visitor from Canada posted Thu July 3, 2008: It does in fact have a left gear.
A visitor from - posted Mon June 16, 2008: The plane must have said oooouch
A visitor from United Kingdom posted Sun May 18, 2008: Very good pic,came in to fast to me flap what!i wonder how bad was the damage!
A visitor from United States posted Fri May 9, 2008: Left main is down just hard to see, still a noisy tail strike I'm sure
A visitor from - posted Wed April 23, 2008: This is a very rare shot . Probably once in a lifetime .
A visitor from United States posted Mon March 17, 2008: I can bet a couple of passengers had whiplash after this...
A visitor from United States posted Fri March 7, 2008: Tail strike with no left gear man talk about double trouble dang thats a lot of repairs there
A visitor from Germany posted Sat January 19, 2008: What a great shot you made here!
A visitor from United States posted Tue November 20, 2007: Ouch, must've been a bumpy ride for the passengers.
A visitor from China posted Tue June 12, 2007: Crazy pilot haha!!
A visitor from Netherlands posted Tue September 26, 2006: Nice photo
A visitor from Switzerland posted Tue June 27, 2006: Great shot! Really impressive tailstrike.
A visitor from Malaysia posted Wed April 26, 2006: One in the million!
A visitor from Switzerland posted Sun March 26, 2006: Once in a lifetime shot :) OUCH!
A visitor from United Kingdom posted Mon January 30, 2006: Wow!
A visitor from Switzerland posted Tue January 3, 2006: Great picture! A tailstrike is always impressive...Especially under that angle of view.

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