A380 in USA

CXRules · Post by **CXRules** » 20 Mar 2007, 16:05

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... ional.html

Steven · Post by **Steven** » 20 Mar 2007, 18:42

Seems like it was a tricky landing... The A380 was skidding just after touchdown... Just look at the video's.
What happened?

I think it landed on the back left wheels first, then the right wheels, the whole thing skids sideways, the front wheel smokes up because it was straight, but the plane is not. the rudder flares out immediately and it corrects. there was no wind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fZK_mPM6tw

Zenfookpower · Post by **Zenfookpower** » 21 Mar 2007, 02:32

Here is a slow motion capture.. Something was not right..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eSir0RRgTg

bits44 · Post by **bits44** » 22 Mar 2007, 02:37

video of interior of the LAX aircraft:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qVxjJfAvCY

CX · Post by CX » 22 Mar 2007, 04:04

Should it be a big deal? Doesn't it just look a bit of wind tilted the thing a bit just before touching down?

bits44 · Post by **bits44** » 22 Mar 2007, 05:47

The slow motion video has been removed??????

A new link to somebody else's shot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aOmXMQ6UZc

A little suspicious why the slo-mo should disappear

CX · Post by CX » 22 Mar 2007, 11:15

More suspicious who put those screens of words like "imagine the slide if it was FULL"

boomer535 · Post by **boomer535** » 22 Mar 2007, 12:53

The landing at LAX was bad enough for the newsmen reporting the landing live to comment on it. I thought the AC really came down hard at LAX, you can see the wings really flex downward and a lot of tire smoke. I saw a video of the landing in JFK. This was smoother then the landing in LAX but the nose of the AC still swerved as the nose wheel touched. I wonder what the tire life is on the A380.