RE: VIDEO: FedEx MD-11 crashes at Narita

Flightglobal:

Japanese television has posted a video of a FedEx MD-11 crashing and burning after having landing troubles at the Narita International Airport Monday morning....

Author: John Croft

Date: 22 March 2009

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Aircraft involved was N526FE, 48600/560.

This video shows a very hard bounce on landing, before the wing tip hit the runway

 

 

 

 

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Amazing that the front UC unit was able to absorb the last impact and bounce the nose back up. Makes you wonder how things might have turned out if it had just buckled and dumped the nose onto the tarmac.

Wind shear eyed in deadly crash of FedEx cargo jet..Take a look at this video of a Fedex MD-11 trying to land in a cross wind, just shows how difficult this can be

Wind shear may have caused the crash of a FedEx jet that cartwheeled on the runway at Tokyo's main international airport and burst into a fireball, investigators said Monday, but experts noted that the model was notoriously difficult to land.

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