On Thursday 17 January 2008 23:24:13 Jon Elson wrote: > Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > > On Thursday 17 January 2008 08:57:22 Jon Stockill wrote: > >>It seems BA had a little bit of an accident at EGLL. > >> > >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7194086.stm > >> > >>Jon > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYwQ4EHQY8Y > > > > With the landing gear punched through its support and tore away the wing > > like that, this will probably be the first 777 to be written off due to > > an accident. > > Oh, yeah, that plane is seriously damaged. If that were the > only damage, it might be repairable, but I suspect the forces > from such a massive thrust to rip the gear out of the > structure will have deformed a heck of a lot of important things > like the main bulkheads. Then it landed on its belly, still > pretty hard, to do more damage. Pretty impressive that the > fuselage structure held together! > > > The rare glimps into the internal structure of the inner flap is quite > > informative. > > I'll have to look again, the first pictures were pretty fuzzy. > > Jon
Found this on airliners.net: http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=1318203&size=L Ampere ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
