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Any landing you can walk away from was a good one I

Its data from the aircraft via ADS-B

What do you make of this from granular data FlightRadar of the Mieliefield Airbus? engines hung in for a while it seems

Makes sense to keep the gear up if you are going to land in a field - I wonder the sequence of events in the cockpit, the aircraft had barely taken off when it hit that flock of birds. Generally one retracts gear with positive rate of climb.

Gear could dig in and cause more fuselage damage, think the nose gear causing stress in this case it was the engines that dug in and braked the aircraft, you can see the channels./troughs from the overhead pics.

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Gear was still up - I wonder if that what a choice or what? Engines kinda dug in the softish ground / field. I wonder if gear was down, would be a different ending?

Must have been loss of both engines? Pilot bled off a good deal of speed and lucky there was a meillie field to land in

Those rotors are just a few meters from the snow ...wonder what Pliot Yellow @bchelicopters would have to say

Sam outdoing himself again ...

You are not missing much right now here in the Highveld: dry, dusty, blackened veld, polluted air, bad drivers, Rand going south again, ... should I go on? That video of the SAA A340-600 must be old, when did FAJS change from Jhb International to Oliver Reginald?

Niko & Frikkie on the decks ....

Obviously the peak has come and gone

Doug must be happy

Carbon brake discs do glow under normal use as far as I know, same kind of thing as F1

what a life ...

Which reminds me of one of the last time I flew myself - hired a lovely Piper Turbo and did a fantastic 5 day Namibia trip. First time with a GPS, they had just come to the market, a bit klunky Garmin, still have it lol. A week later the aircraft was destroyed on the slopes of the 'burg - flown by commercial pilots who did not survive. Big Eek.

def. needs his overpaid butt kicked (out)

Yes that what I heard, they have take spin recovery out of the PPL syllabus. Scary at first, but important as far as knowing your procedure and confidence in handling that rather hectic situation. Apparently the exams side had become a bit on an obstacle now,

Difference is fighter pilots train for that - unsuspecting sky divers would likely have not been prepared at all. Quite often getting out such a situation is counter-intuitive, for example getting out of a spin, the pilot needs to go through a procedure. There was another accident recently with a sky diving aircraft where the the pilot didnt get this right It goes something like throttle off, rudder opposite to spin, once spin has stopped, pull back on control column to get out of the dive. I don't think PPL's need to practice this anymore but back in the day it was required, quite a roller coaster ride!

Yes it will be spinning and tumbling, people inside are going to be facing all sorts of forces that would limit their actions, and it will be over quite quick. Terrifying!

That museum in DC has an incredible collection - I am due a revisit soon! There is also a museum in Huntsville that has lot of rockets as does KSC which is very interesting because they have a lot of the earlier ones from the first days of manned flight where you can see how the technology developed in Germany during the war migrated along with the rocket men.. Science Museum in London has a crew capsule, Apollo.10 I think it also has a A4/V2 which is the first rocket Werhner and team built. Quite a lot of technical accomplishments there: the turbo pump, guidance system, rocket chamber

I think that projection might be to scale, that rocket was homongous! There is a museum there at the KSC where they have a few stages of a later unused one lying down, the nozzles of those first stage engines are enormous. Incredible feat of engineering..