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[–] b3an@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Apparently it lost all power which is rare. It’s in the USA too, that black box.

I have a curiosity though:

Two minutes before the Mayday emergency call, air traffic control gave caution for "bird activity". Declaring emergency, the pilots abandoned the landing attempt and initiated a go-around.

But instead of making a full go-about, the budget airline's Boeing 737-800 jet took a sharp turn and approached the airport's single runway from the opposite end, crash-landing without landing gear deployed.

So it landed from the opposite way? Is that normal? Why are they so angry about the concrete barrier, if it was on the side where planes should approach from, and not at the opposite side where they land?

I understand the barrier caused the main fire etc. yes it’s horrible. I’m sorry for all those people. I wonder what the hell happened before it crash landed. Like if they were forced to come from opposite side instead of did the full go around or if it was pilots choice.

[–] Dima 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Runways can be used from either direction, usually they try to land with a headwind if there is significant wind I think. I think the localizer antenna can be at both ends of the runway if both directions have ILS approaches, but I'm not an expert. The concrete mound for the antenna is getting a lot of focus because it made a runway excursion so much worse.

It seems to me like they may have decided to make the landing then due to losing altitude and thinking they wouldn't be able to climb again, but hopefully the investigation can figure out what probably happened.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Accidentally cutting off fuel to the wrong engine after the bird strike, or possibly both engines, would mean no additional power to climb and do a proper go around.

And no engines running means no power, which would mean no flight data recorder since this plane predated required battery backups for that system.

[–] Dima 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I think this is likely what happened, will be interesting to see what the investigation finds. I'm surprised there isn't any sort of backup power for the voice recorder, it's there to help investigate incidents, those 4 minutes would have contained a lot of vital insight into what was going on.

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