RJ drags wingtip on landing

Didn't the asa side of express jet do pretty much the same thing in atl this summer
 
Blackhawk said:
While not an every day event this is not the first RJ to drag a wing.
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PhilosopherPilot said:
It happened several times at my last shop. Once during a go-around the crew got both wings before getting away from the ground. Impressive!
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ian said:
Didn't the asa side of express jet do pretty much the same thing in atl this summer
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This isn't the first jet to drag a wingtip, and it won't be the last. It has happened at majors, regionals, freight, military, and corporate. Just because there wasn't a big crosswind that day doesn't mean that thermal activity, wake turbulence, or even an ill timed sneeze couldn't have bit the crew in question.

Any pilot who looks at that pic and thinks it can't happen to them is the real danger.

It could always be worse...
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I just listened to the audio on LiveATC. Pilots didn't say anything about it after landing and just asked tower if they should switch to ground or stay with tower while they taxi to parking.
 
USMCmech said:
+1

This isn't the first jet to drag a wingtip, and it won't be the last. It has happened at majors, regionals, freight, and corporate. Just because there wasn't a big crosswind that day doesn't mean that thermal activity, wake turbulence, or even an ill timed sneeze couldn't have bit the crew in question.

Any pilot who looks at that pic and thinks it can't happen to them is the real danger.

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This is one of the reasons that in aircraft with little to no wing area and especially swept, such as T-38 etc, that we land in a crab to touchdown, as the chance of stalling one of the wings and ending up with something like this or worse, was high.

Not saying that's what happened here, as this incident could be from any number of possible factors; just tying this into one of the situations where one could potentially find themselves in something like this.
 
USMCmech said:
+1

This isn't the first jet to drag a wingtip, and it won't be the last. It has happened at majors, regionals, freight, military, and corporate. Just because there wasn't a big crosswind that day doesn't mean that thermal activity, wake turbulence, or even an ill timed sneeze couldn't have bit the crew in question.

Any pilot who looks at that pic and thinks it can't happen to them is the real danger.

It could always be worse...
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It's a lot easier to do in a 747, it only takes 5 degrees of bank on the ground to scrape an engine. Probably at least 10 degrees in an RJ to scrape the wing? Who knows the extenuating circumstances though. Maybe they had a hydraulic failure or something.
 
USMCmech said:
+1

This isn't the first jet to drag a wingtip, and it won't be the last. It has happened at majors, regionals, freight, military, and corporate. Just because there wasn't a big crosswind that day doesn't mean that thermal activity, wake turbulence, or even an ill timed sneeze couldn't have bit the crew in question.

Any pilot who looks at that pic and thinks it can't happen to them is the real danger.
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While I agree with your overall don't-throw-stones point, there is one piece that I vehemently disagree with.

I do not want to be on a jet flown by a pilot whereby a sneeze results in the wing impacting the runway. :aghast:
 
All it takes is not drinking the usual morning cup of coffee for me to do something like this.... :aghast: Yes, it can happen to anyone anytime.
 
Alchemy said:
It's a lot easier to do in a 747, it only takes 5 degrees of bank on the ground to scrape an engine. Probably at least 10 degrees in an RJ to scrape the wing? Who knows the extenuating circumstances though. Maybe they had a hydraulic failure or something.
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On the CRJ 900 with a main wheel on the ground, the wing will touch the ground at approximately 12.5 degrees of bank.
 
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