Landing Incident @ SFO

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boondr said:
looking at this picture you can use the video to compare and see the line the nose marks on the ground as the back end elevates and the entire fuselage rotates around the pivot point of the nose.

Also appears to show another mark tracing diagonally off to the north side of the RWY (left side of picture). Maybe that is the "missing engine".

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That is a pretty amazing picture. It is wild to see the vertical and horizontals just sitting back at the end of the runway while the rest of the fuselage is where it is sitting.
 
boondr said:
looking at this picture you can use the video to compare and see the line the nose marks on the ground as the back end elevates and the entire fuselage rotates around the pivot point of the nose.

Also appears to show another mark tracing diagonally off to the north side of the RWY (left side of picture). Maybe that is the "missing engine".
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I believe that yes, the engine wound up in the area between the two runways.
 
jtrain609 said:
The United crew must have crapped their pants watching that.
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That's what I was thinking. Assuming they weren't heads down, they had a front row seat. Seeing the video now, it's a miracle that United flight came away unscathed. That 777 hits that sea wall in a different angle, it could have easily ran into the United jet.
 
RE these pictures, MikeD, do you think the oxygen system could have contributed to the burning of the top of the fuselage?
 
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