MROC DHL incident

Can't see how much runway is left, but it sure looks like they locked up the brakes. Which of course would fit with a hydraulic failure.
 
Looked like only partial spoilers and no reversers (at least not on the left side). They were really moving too. Glad it sounds like everyone is ok.
 
A loss of left all fluid in the left system, including the reserve, would make nose wheel steering inop. Also, loss of left hydraulics would take out the left TR but not the right. Using only right TR with no nosewheel steering could cause a turn to the right. Hopefully you could control that with differential braking. Would blown tires on the right but not the left cause an aggressive veer to the right like that? It didn't in the sim....haha.
 
Is this REALLY an incident?

"Substantial Damage" and so fourth...

I'm with you, but incident has different meanings to different people. For example, in high school, the administrators used incident to refer to fights. The aircraft came to rest with the tail broken off, which is certainly more than $25k in damage as defined by NTSB 830. Since it didn't "crash", they have to call it something and "hydraulic system failure of unknown origin that resulted in possibly departing the runway" is just too wordy for headlines, but it beats the "technical fault" used in many places.
 
You can see the #2 reverser is deployed (#1 is stowed). And yeah, only some spoilers up.

As the aircraft leaves the runway you can see rudder deflection to counter the turn, but then is weathervaning by the time they're 90-degrees off; maybe because of hydraulics or because the pilat was getting jostled around.
 
In that Twitter video it appears the aircraft came to rest at the yellow dot. The camera was at the green dot.

The building just to the south (white roof) is the DHL facility.

muy_malo!.jpg
 
Is this REALLY an incident?

"Substantial Damage" and so fourth...


I'm with you, but incident has different meanings to different people. For example, in high school, the administrators used incident to refer to fights. The aircraft came to rest with the tail broken off, which is certainly more than $25k in damage as defined by NTSB 830. Since it didn't "crash", they have to call it something and "hydraulic system failure of unknown origin that resulted in possibly departing the runway" is just too wordy for headlines, but it beats the "technical fault" used in many places.

It doesn’t matter what the NTSB calls it; it matters what the Civil Aviation Directorate of Costa Rica calls it, :)
 
It doesn’t matter what the NTSB calls it; it matters what the Civil Aviation Directorate of Costa Rica calls it, :)

*sighs*
Fine!

In other news:
Boeing has announced the new B757 quick deploy folding tail mod.

((whether you want to or not))

(hydraulics not required)
 
That aircraft was made when Boris Yeltin resigned and the previously-elected Vladdy Pootin' started his first term at President of Russia.

Mambo No. 5 was just starting to descend from its zenith on the charts.
 
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