Aviation Photo #1050502 Airbus A340-642 - China Eastern Airlines

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Aircraft

China Eastern Airlines
Airbus A340-642

Reg.: B-6055

MSN: 586

Location & Date

Shanghai - Pudong International (PVG / ZSPD)
China - May 13, 2006

Caption

Notice the trace on the ground

Photographer

Elizabeth

64 China

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Photo Added: May 23, 2006

Comments (67)

Anonymous

14 years ago

Talk about coming to a screeching halt! Thanks Elizabeth for getting out there and capturing the moment.

Anonymous

14 years ago

Whoa what happened? great angle of photo... and not very usual

Anonymous

14 years ago

Great iniative there, great photo showing all the details :)

They drive just like I do! :P

Anonymous

14 years ago

Damn, the Tires look pretty done. Looks pretty scary with the stripes behind the Wheels

Anonymous

14 years ago

Look at the runway surface finish. High quality concrete !!!. But what are those plastic bags for ?.

flybaurlax

USA

4 years ago

Cleaning up the FOD. Look at the guys down the runway cleaning up tire debris.

Anonymous

14 years ago

What has happened?

Anonymous

14 years ago

Interesting picture. I wonder what the yellow plastic bags are there for

Anonymous

14 years ago

At least they did it very straight ;)

Anonymous

14 years ago

WOW! What happend here?

Anonymous

14 years ago

What happened to the wheels? The aircraft is still on the runway, isn't it?

Anonymous

14 years ago

Oh my god

what a luck for the pax are ok

Anonymous

14 years ago

Brakes...

Anonymous

14 years ago

Hmm, what happened here? Emergency landing or what?

Anonymous

14 years ago

Whoa those skid marks go on forever!

Anonymous

14 years ago

Wow!, what a brake system!. What are these yellow bags, ice for the brakes?

Anonymous

14 years ago

It shure was a hard landing - or aborted T/O.

Anonymous

14 years ago

Detailed photo, great to see, what caused all the damage ?

Anonymous

14 years ago

JEEPERS CREEPERS!!! That must have been a hard landing to pop all those tires.

Anonymous

14 years ago

Whoops, just a bit hard on the hand brake there :P

Anonymous

14 years ago

Oh, man! Talk about flat tires! Why, how and were?! I would call that landing a real thrill for those involved. /Joz in Sweden

Anonymous

14 years ago

RTO? How many meters to the line?

Anonymous

14 years ago

Hey, what are those yellow things?

Anonymous

14 years ago

I think the common term the pilot would have said after seeing this is "Whoops I've skidded me undercarriage again" :)

Anonymous

14 years ago

What the hell happenend there?

Anonymous

14 years ago

It makes me sick to look at it;-( nice foto
VTBDflyer

Anonymous

14 years ago

Huh, what trace?

Anonymous

14 years ago

People that is what you call "burning rubber".

Anonymous

14 years ago

Was this durin´ landing or take-off? T.B.

Anonymous

14 years ago

What has happened?

Anonymous

14 years ago

He blew his tires on landing?

Anonymous

14 years ago

What did happen? I suppose it was a too hard landing...I don't find any other explanation. Can someone help me?

Anonymous

14 years ago

Wow, when did it happen?

Anonymous

14 years ago

Burn rubber baby! I can almost smell it. Great pic.

Anonymous

14 years ago

The tires looks very flat...

Anonymous

14 years ago

Wow, what exactly happened? I'm guessing that it was a really hard landing?

Anonymous

14 years ago

Likely the effects of a possible anti-skid system failure. the yellow bags holds fragments from each tyre. Good job of keeping plane on runway safely

Anonymous

14 years ago

Hi nice photo, but does anyone know what the yellow looking bags are?

Tucker1

Wisconsin, USA

2 years ago

Read the other replies that have already explained it

Anonymous

14 years ago

I think this is what happen when park brakes are set while landing !!

Anonymous

14 years ago

I guess what happened is that the pilot was landing with his parking brake on, what happened to the US Airways' ERJ-170 few months ago.

Anonymous

14 years ago

Looks like an anti skid malfunction.

Anonymous

14 years ago

News comes that ABS failure made it :(

Anonymous

14 years ago

Did someone on the cockpit forgot he was an airplane pilot instead of a dragcar pilot;)

Anonymous

14 years ago

Excellent picture! A lot of details to see! Things you should think about looking at this picture is the amount of energy that those tires absorbed. I'm pretty sure the rims grinded the runway as well. Do you have more pictures of this accident? Please post them! Rare picture to see...

Anonymous

14 years ago

I think the tires are sunk in a layer of soft special cement at the edge of the runway. That kind of layers exist in some airports and prevents aircrafts which had problematic landings, to run off the runway and get out of the airport area. If such a layer existed at Toronto airport, possibly the Air France 340 wouldn't got into the trench and caught fire (Flight AF385 - 02.08.2005)

Anonymous

14 years ago

The skid markes are perfectly straight, it may not have any tyers left but wow what a pilot!!!

Anonymous

14 years ago

Wow what happened. Looks like all the tires went flat.

Anonymous

14 years ago

According to my knowledge, this can happen from an overweight or overspeed landing, when the brakes reach very high temperatures (600 degrees C or more)A quick google search returned that according to the airline, the A340-600 airbus returned from Seoul, South Korea to the Pudong airport at about 2:23pm on Saturday. During the landing, 12 tires of the undercarriage blew up. The crew immediately adopted emergency measures to safely stop the aircraft on the runway. All 232 passengers were taken away by shuttle bus and the plane was pulled off the runway for repair later. The airline said the accident was still under investigation.

Anonymous

14 years ago

Oh my god, incredible photo, looks like the tires draw lines through all the runway, I wanna know if it is a video from this incident

Anonymous

14 years ago

The all breakes failed working (they have locked still during flight) so the pilot made an emergency landing. This is the consequence: 12 tires blew up but the pax were safe.

Anonymous

14 years ago

This is what i would call : burning the rubber

Anonymous

14 years ago

So that will be 12 tires, 14 carbon brake disc stacks and 45 pads. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$USD thank you very much! Dont see that very often!

Anonymous

14 years ago

A real great shot.........i wonder how you got this foto

Anonymous

14 years ago

Cool

Anonymous

14 years ago

Doesn't happen often and when it does the black rubber is not always straight. Congratulations - right place , right time.

Anonymous

14 years ago

And it said "Kaboooof" ... and no more air in the wheels lol looks funny, but comprehensive operation changing the wheels.

Anonymous

13 years ago

I think this is the emergency take-off abort. I saw like this in b777 take-off cancellation test. Many reason stands for it, like bird strike on engine so the pilot wouldn't take any risk.

Anonymous

13 years ago

I think this occurred because a Take-Off Rejected. The rubber fire and melt up.

Anonymous

13 years ago

Great though scary

Anonymous

13 years ago

WOW! Great job to the pilots keeping this thing on the runway.

Anonymous

12 years ago

Ah well, I guess a good landing is one that you can walk away from, eh? 5 stars :)

Anonymous

11 years ago

Skid markz from outa hell! (scnr)

Anonymous

11 years ago

Tokyo drift style

Anonymous

11 years ago

Seems as those Brakes worked werry well :)

Anonymous

10 years ago

Those marks are in a straight line that is amazing.they were very lucky i think to hold the a/c on the runway

Anonymous

10 years ago

Too bad the brakes worked better than the tires. Great job by the crew keeping her on the runway centerline though instead of going off-road and collapsing the gear.