And this is what U call a Hard Landing

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abrutus

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Accident: Centurion MD11 at Montevideo on Oct 20th 2009, right main gear damage
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By Simon Hradecky, created Wednesday, Oct 21st 2009 18:12Z, last updated Friday, Oct 23rd 2009 15:26

A Centurion Air Cargo McDonnell Douglas MD-11 freighter, registration N701GC performing flight WE-431 (dep. Oct 19th) from Miami,FL (USA) to Montevideo (Uruguay) with 5 crew, was concluding an ILS Category I approach to Montevideo's runway 24 in foggy conditions and calm winds, but hit the runway very hard at 02:55L (04:55Z). The airplane slowed safely and vacated the runway onto taxiway A, where the crew stopped the airplane. The airplane leaked fuel onto the taxiway.

The airplane received extensive damage to the right hand main gear and wheels, the right hand main gear strut is bent, cracks are visible. Structural damage to the right hand wing spar is suspected as well


centurion_md11_n701gc_montevideo_091020_2.jpg
Tire marks on the runway


<table><tbody><tr><td>An aviation source in Montevideo told The Aviation Herald, that the runway visual range (RVR) dropped to 700 meters (required 800 meters for the approach). Local gossip is, that a patch of fog obscured the runway so that the crew never saw the runway, but never initiated a go-around and touched down without flare.
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Metars:
SUMU 200700Z 00000KT 0500 R19/0300 R24/0800 FG NSC 10/10 Q1011 TEMPO 0800 FG
SUMU 200625Z 00000KT 0500 R19/0550 R24/1200 FG NSC 10/10 Q1011 TEMPO 0800 FG
SUMU 200600Z 00000KT 0700 R19/0450 R24/1200 FG NSC 10/10 Q1011 TEMPO 0800 FG
SUMU 200500Z 00000KT 0700 R19/0500 R24/0700 FG NSC 11/11 Q1011 TEMPO 0800 FG
SUMU 200400Z 00000KT 1200 R19/0450 R24/1100 BR NSC 12/12 Q1011 TEMPO 0800FG
SUMU 200330Z 00000KT 1500 R19/0550 R24/0800 BR NSC 11/11 Q1011
SUMU 200300Z 00000KT 5000 1500N R19/1300 R24/1000 BR NSC 14/14 Q1011 TEMPO 0800 FG
SUMU 200200Z 14003KT 8000 R19/1800 R24/P2000 NSC 14/14 Q1011 NOSIG
SUMU 200100Z 14003KT CAVOK 15/14 Q1012 NOSIG
SUMU 200000Z 13003KT CAVOK 15/14 Q1011 NOSIG
SUMU 192300Z 12005KT 9999 FEW033 16/14 Q1011 NOSIG

The bent right main gear strut:

centurion_md11_n701gc_montevideo_091020_1.jpg



Cracks and wheel damage:

centurion_md11_n701gc_montevideo_091020_3.jpg




Ouch!!

So..... What can we learn from this?
 
Ten bucks says it's related to the famous MD-11 stab/artificial stability system. A hundred bucks says a Boeing/Airbus pursefight by page 3.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Ten bucks says it's related to the famous MD-11 stab/artificial stability system. A hundred bucks says a Boeing/Airbus pursefight by page 3.
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I don't think I'd disagree with you on either point.

Man, from the pictures, that was definitely an ugly landing. I did something that felt like that in a Warrior once, but without the damage...
 
Time for a hard landing inspection....AND other things....dang, someone got chewed out for that I'm sure.
 
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