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Originally posted by JakiusFogg
Do you know that for a fact??
Of the eight survivors, four had only minor injuries and one was unscathed.
"As I fled from the aircraft, flames engulfed it.”
Originally posted by JakiusFogg
reply to post by peacejet
Different aircraft type. and in that one (as in others) the T/R was locked out. but really a lack of thrust reversers should not have been an issue, I have been on sooooo many landings where they were not even used
He touched down 2000 ft down the runway.
what is your source??? do you have an ACARS link that we don;t know about?
ATC sources told CNN-IBN that the pilot was flying much above the appropriate approach angle which could be why the plane touched down 2000 feet beyond the actual touchdown point on the runway. This left the pilot with only 5000 feet to bring the plane to a halt.
Please see the video link I posted, and you will see that 5000ft is well within the stopping distance on the 737.
"The plane started to fall. There was a loud thud," Totuttur said, recalling the crash that killed 158 people Saturday after the flight overshot the runway. "The right wing was on the ground, but the left wing of the plane was up in the air. Then I saw the plane break into two in the middle. I had very little time. But I jumped out, about eight feet."
Totuttur, the manager of a sporting goods shop in Dubai, is one of eight survivors.
"I could hear people trapped inside, screaming," he said, speaking by phone from his hospital bed in Mangalore. "I walked on fire for some time. I limped and fell and picked myself up again. When I turned back and looked, there was a loud explosion and smoldering fire."
158 people died when the Mangalore-bound Boeing 737-800 flight from Dubai overshot the runway and burst into flames at the Bajpe airport here. Eight persons survived.
Originally posted by dzonatas
"The right wing was on the ground, but the left wing of the plane was up in the air. Then I saw the plane break into two in the middle. I had very little time. But I jumped out, about eight feet."