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Old 04-11-2010, 06:21 AM
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Originally Posted by 990Convair View Post
...The EWR crash and NRT crash are because the elevator was unloaded during a bounce recovery. Period. Quit trying to make it appear that the jet is made of balsa, it isn't.

Unload the wing of a 480,000 pound ANYTHING and hit terra-firma on one gear and I'll bet it breaks too, unless the wing goes first.
Care to give a few examples? Just off the top of my head, I can't think of another widebody having a wing break off during ANY landing. And, I'm sure that the MD-11 is not the only aircraft that has had the pilot "unload the elevator" after a bounce, in the last 40 years.
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Originally Posted by Busboy View Post
Care to give a few examples? Just off the top of my head, I can't think of another widebody having a wing break off during ANY landing. And, I'm sure that the MD-11 is not the only aircraft that has had the pilot "unload the elevator" after a bounce, in the last 40 years.
It's true. Pilots of Boeing and Airbus designed aircraft have never, in the history of aviation, unloaded the elevator after a bounce. That is why the wings on those planes never break off.
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