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United 767 fuselage crumpled after hard landing (avherald.com)
submitted 1 year ago by GlobalMagenta@lemm.ee to c/aviation@lemmyfly.org
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A United Boeing 767-300, registration N641UA performing flight UA-702 from Newark,NJ to Houston Intercontinental,TX (USA), landed on Houston's runway 26L at 10:34L (15:34Z) but touched down hard. The aircraft rolled out without further incident and taxied to the apron. There were no injuries.

Source: https://avherald.com/h?article=50c768a7&opt=0

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[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The final contributing factor was the aircraft flying very close to its maximum landing weight. The airplane landed at 196,000 lb and has a maximum landing weight of 198,000 lb, which is considered to have contributed to the damaged caused to the airframe.

Never heard of "landing weight" before. Is that basically just take-off weight minus the burned fuel it took to reach the destination? Can they potentially burn off more fuel prior to landing to reduce this risk?

[-] GlobalMagenta@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Correct. It is also used for performance calculations. For example to calculate what Autobreak setting should be used based on the runway length, METAR and landing weight.

I know Airbus aircraft calculate the "EFOB" (End Fuel On Board) in the MCDU. A pilot can calculate the Landing Weight based on the EFOB number by looking at the current weight and calculating based on the EFOB what the landing weight would be.

[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Autobreak or autobrake?

Well, I guess it's both in this case

[-] GlobalMagenta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Hahaha, sorry, not a native english speaker. Ofcourse: autobrake. :-)

[-] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

They can dump the fuel to get under max landing weight.

[-] Izzent@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Leave it to United to unite the worst service on board coupled with the worst maintenance and worst pilots.

[-] Chog@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

A similar thing happened to a Delta Boeing 757 in the past. Let’s see if United also goes the same route of repairing or scrapping this one.

https://simpleflying.com/delta-hard-landing-boeing-757/

[-] GlobalMagenta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I am curious as well. 32.4 years old. It did get a cabin refurbishment in January 2023, so this makes the repair/not repair decision perhaps a bit harder.

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