American MD-82 wing strike (Video)

[Chris Kilroy]

Pretty amazing video of an American MD-82 striking its right wingtip on runway 7R at Las Vegas last Sunday here:

http://www.kvvu.com/

[Wrayzer]

Hopefully some of the passengers had clean pairs of shorts after that close call!

[Crism]

Nice! Got the tail number anyone?

[mikecweb]

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** Report created 8/18/2005 Record 31 **
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IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: AAL1893 Make/Model: MD80 Description: MD-81/82/83/87/88
Date: 08/14/2005 Time: 1748

Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Unknown

LOCATION
City: LAS VEGAS State: NV Country: US

DESCRIPTION
AMERICAN AIRLINES, AAL1893, A MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD 80, ON LANDING, RIGHT
WING STRUCK THE RUNWAY, NO INJURIES REPORTED, LAS VEGAS, NV

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 6 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 140 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:


OTHER DATA
Activity: Business Phase: Landing Operation: Air Carrier

Departed: CHICAGO, IL Dep Date: Dep. Time:
Destination: LAS VEGAS, NV Flt Plan: IFR Wx Briefing: Y
Last Radio Cont: GROUND CONTROL
Last Clearance: RAMP CONTROL

FAA FSDO: LAS VEGAS, NV (WP19) Entry date: 08/15/2005

[ExpressJet145]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN. American really loves their MD-80s, off the runway every other day, now wing strikes .

[yyz-yvr]

Sweet video. Would that just feel like a rough landing to the pax. or do you think the cabin would be shaking? Anyone been on board when something similar has happened?

[ExpressJet145]

Sweet video. Would that just feel like a rough landing to the pax. or do you think the cabin would be shaking? Anyone been on board when something similar has happened?

Ive had one hard landing on a USAir 737 coming into DCA. We overshot the landing, and touched down very hard, and what I think was max braking as we stopped very short. My head went forward I had to put my hand up to top my body moving forward as did everyone else. Everyone was oo'ing and ahh'ing.

Also on a Dash 8 for US Air, inflight at like 15,000ft something happened with cabin pressurization and everyones ears started hurting and we nose dived to a lower altitude very fast. Pilot came on and said they had an issue with the pressurization system.

[herpa2003]

Hope no one was looking out the right side windows at the time...that's a heart attack waiting to happen!

[chrisburns]

Back to re-current training for those pilots. How much you wanna bet that 50% of the pax said that they will never fly AA again and that its not a safe airline to friends and family

[Stephen Toernblom]

Hahaha Bob Ferver.....he was our chief pilot at Allegiant when I worked for them. I haven't seen him in ages!

[ATrude777]

Back to re-current training for those pilots. How much you wanna bet that 50% of the pax said that they will never fly AA again and that its not a safe airline to friends and family

*WAVES* I DO I DO!

As for you, how many times have YOU said that about Southwest? One bad move from them, and its "see i told you they are bad!! I will NOT fly them, I HATE Southwest." j/k

LMAO

Alex

[Crunk415balla]

Wow thats a cool video. Thanks for sharing it chris!

[DevilDog]

It’s obvious that the reporter of the news story did not do his homework on how planes land in cross winds. Towards the end of the video the guy talks about cross winds and how pilots land in them, he said, “the pilots dip there wings into the wind” but if I remember right the pilots have to put the whole plane into the cross winds, with the rudders. I’m I wrong or not, if I’m wrong woooopppppppps sorry.

-Nick R.

[ExpressJet145]

It’s obvious that the reporter of the news story did not do his homework on how planes land in cross winds. Towards the end of the video the guy talks about cross winds and how pilots land in them, he said, “the pilots dip there wings into the wind” but if I remember right the pilots have to put the whole plane into the cross winds, with the rudders. I’m I wrong or not, if I’m wrong woooopppppppps sorry.

-Nick R.

Combination of both.. if the plane is going straight.... wind from the RIGHT, the pilot should execute the following LEFT Rudder and RIGHT aileron to keep the wing down. And the other way around if theres a wind from the left side.

[hkgspotter1]

As they say in Hong Kong..... Wahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Still not as good as my double 747 engine strikes