30-04-2008, 09:43
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TNT Landing
Looks like TNT pilots are about as good as the rest of their staff
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7373310.stm
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30-04-2008, 09:56
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Re: TNT Landing
Not far off. According to the crash investigation report they were diverted to East Midlands Airport due to weather conditions. During the latter stages of landing air traffic control relayed a message to them from their company asking them to divert elsewhere. In the process of responding to this message the pilot accidentally knocked off the auto pilot switches and didn't notice until the aircraft clipped the grass and ripped a couple of wheels off. They then diverted to Birmingham and put down as shown above.
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30-04-2008, 09:59
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Re: TNT Landing
The undercarage was down, there must have been some emergency called otherwise why was the Police helicopter there and filming it.
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30-04-2008, 12:03
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Re: TNT Landing
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The undercarage was down, there must have been some emergency called otherwise why was the Police helicopter there and filming it.
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I dont think it was locked down, it certainly went down very late.
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30-04-2008, 14:48
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I dont think it was locked down, it certainly went down very late.
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Some of it was on the floor at East Midlands, so it's not surprising they made a bit of a fuss when it got to BHX.
Pilots were sacked, after being praised for rescuing the situation. It was ultimately their screwup, of course.
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30-04-2008, 15:14
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Re: TNT Landing
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Originally Posted by r1ch
Not far off. According to the crash investigation report they were diverted to East Midlands Airport due to weather conditions. During the latter stages of landing air traffic control relayed a message to them from their company asking them to divert elsewhere. In the process of responding to this message the pilot accidentally knocked off the auto pilot switches and didn't notice until the aircraft clipped the grass and ripped a couple of wheels off. They then diverted to Birmingham and put down as shown above.
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So they knocked auto pilot off and didn't notice they were decending?
Sounds like flight 401 to me (except this time with an ugly plane).
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30-04-2008, 16:19
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Re: TNT Landing
Tristars were always a favourite of mine too, but there's something about the shorter bodied A340s that does it for me. Echoes of the 707, perhaps.
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30-04-2008, 18:56
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Re: TNT Landing
This happened on 15th June 2006.
Boy was I busy that that where I work (TNT - aircrarf side), I posted a thread on this at that time.
Basically they where trying to land at Stansted, but the weather was too bad and where diverted to Liverpool, again weather diverted them to Newcastle
An ATC cock up caused the pilot to accidently turn off the auto pilot and by the time he managed to react the AC hit the ground 90M to the left of the runway leaving behind the righ hand main landing gear.
He managed to pull up and divert to Birmingham where they made a text book emergency landing. which resulted in the airport being closed.
AS there was an England match in Europe loads of fan miised there flights and the match.
Because of the bad press the crew where dismissed (Unfairly).
The irony of the situation the AC was flyable one repairs would have been made. But after AC was supported on the right hand engine on a flat loader, the process of a tug & flat loader pulling the AC became out of sink which caused the airfame to twist thus righting off the AC.
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FYI the aircraft was OO-TND a Boeing 737-301(F)
What it looks like now
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Report here
http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/publicati...t_sections.cfm
Last edited by Hom3r; 30-04-2008 at 18:59.
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30-04-2008, 21:23
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Re: TNT Landing
It was East Midlands, wasn't it, not Newcastle? Didn't realise they'd bent it that badly afterwards. Ouch.
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30-04-2008, 21:28
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If you read the report it has tyre marks on the fuselage
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30-04-2008, 21:31
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Re: TNT Landing
am amazed that the plane didnt go up in air... or did the pilot dump the kerosine before landing and also brilliant landing considering the circumstance stayed straight on the strip instead of (see BA flight on heathrow) crashing on the field.
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30-04-2008, 21:31
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thats a new slant on put the engines in reverse 
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30-04-2008, 21:43
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Re: TNT Landing
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am amazed that the plane didnt go up in air... or did the pilot dump the kerosine before landing and also brilliant landing considering the circumstance stayed straight on the strip instead of (see BA flight on heathrow) crashing on the field.
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Didn't need to it had flown fron Liege in Belguim, and had been diverted. |
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