Originally Posted by
wjcandee
Originally Posted by JackStraw
Must be solid recruits. At least you haven’t let one cr*sh a 767 like Atlas did.
Description of incident here. Synopsis: 767-300 carrying US Troops from overseas landed hard at PSM in calm, clear weather and creased the fuselage. Some say it just needs a BIG roll of speed tape.
Accident: Atlas B763 at Portsmouth on Jul 27th 2018, hard landing
One rumor was that the FO, on his IOE, performed the landing. Not sure that was ever confirmed.
That has happened several times before to 763’s. Later production tails had additional fuselage stringers added to prevent that exact problem. Here’s a good video showing what leads to the creasing.
https://youtu.be/Jw-aUVa3a0U