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Air France A-340 crashed landing at Toronto
EHM-0654 Murray:
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Also, *if* one or both of the engines had been...
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Should have read, "Also, *if* one or both of the left engines had been...". Sorry if any confusion was caused (A340 being 4-engined...)
Anyhow, the crew deserve praise for getting her evacuated in under 5 minutes...
EHM-1655 Scott:
Well on the pictures and footage the reversers on the engines were deployed and the brakes have nothing to do with the electrical system all hydraullic run of the engine driven hydraulic pumps. I guess we will have to wait for the Canadian Authorities to find the cause!
EHM-1001 Robert:
I have seen a video animation, where the engines 1-2 (left) was on fire then the airplane run off the runway to the right...maybe because of aquaplanning, maybe because of the right engines operated the reversers.
What I do not understand is the passengers said after touchdown, the plane started bouncing on the runway...this is not a typical aquaplanning affect.
The aquaplanning depends mainly on the width of the waterlayer, and the weight of the object. A nearly 1 ton F1 racecar can go aquaplanning on about 3 milimeters of water. Imagine how much water needed for the 300 tons beast.
Hopefully everybody survived.
EHM-1655 Scott:
Well I know here were I live the runway has slots all alond it to allow the water to drain off and thus making aquaplaning impossible. I would ahve thought this would be wordwide standard?
EHM-0654 Murray:
Scott/Robert
If you're correct and they had both right engines reversing, then yes, it would slew to the right under engine braking.
And Robert, everyone survived the landing (crew and passenger), hence my praise for the crew, and I'll add local emergency crews to my praise list as well, if I may.
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