quote:Originally posted by lloydfrancis
Have a look on Airliners.Net. It happened on landing. No one noticed this (i.e. crew or passengers) until the engineer saw the impact of the same on a walk round inspection at the gate.
A similar event happened a while ago to a BMI A321 on landing at Dublin. The worst thing with that tail strike is that it went unnoticed during the walk-round at DUB (done by an mx contractor, not the flight crew) and so the aircraft departed. Of course, they encountered pressurisation difficulties shortly after deparure.
The contributing factors to the BMI A321 tail scrape were over-flaring (i.e. landing with nose too high), coupled with a high sink rate, causing a firm landing. Rather than apply power to correct the sink, the decision was taken to arrest the sink by raising the nose further, and it turned out to be the wrong one.
Would not be surprised if the report into VOGE's tailscrape bears some similarities (apart from the mx guy doing the right thing this time!).
Mike
Posted: 21 Jul 2004, 23:00