[crice63]

that's just sad

[commondenom]

Originally Posted by Gore Whore ↗

What the fuck did it hit at the end of the runway? And why was anything there?

they "landed" facing the wrong way on the runway. So the antenna and the mound it's built on is actually positioned at the beginning on the runway

[terrence]

Google Translate On Pictures

[terrence]

From Pictures

1) Bird Strikes
2) Airplane Went Around
3) Losing Altitude And Control

Landing Airplane At the Start of Runway
With Landing Gears Up And Crashing At ILS Wall.

[terrence]

Bigger Pictures With Google Translate Pictures

[akham]

[akham]

Originally Posted by jsundqui ↗

It kind of looks like they made emergency landing after engine flame out from birds, forgot to lower landing gear ...

I think that is exactly what happened.

There is no way a bird strike takes out your landing gear in a 737.

As blancolirio points out (vid in post above) 7 minutes between bird strike and landing isn't enough time to run all the necessary checklists, meaning pilots didn't attend to everything they needed to ... like lowering the gear. They panicked and turned a minor emergency into a major one.

[akham]

Originally Posted by commondenom ↗

they "landed" facing the wrong way on the runway. So the antenna and the mound it's built on is actually positioned at the beginning on the runway

You do realise that runways can be used in both directions?

I have attached the current aerodrome chart from Nuan International Airport. As you can see, the runway is called 01/19 because it can be used in either direction.

[houseoftechno]

Originally Posted by akham ↗

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzmptA6s-1g"

Juan Browne concludes that due to the high speed and lack of deployment of landing gear, flaps, etc., the jet was acting like it had no hydraulic controls, and may have had one engine off, as it touched down.

The main hydraulic pumps are driven by the engines, so if they lost both engines upon final approach due to multiple bird strikes, the pilots would have had to switch to backup electric hydraulic pumps, all while keeping the jet airborne, restarting engines, carving another approach, and lowering the landing gear.

Due to no flaps or gear, the plane did a high-speed gear-up landing, and that creates a ground turbulence effect that floats the plane and prevents it from digging into the tarmac, similar to hydroplaning a car on wet asphalt.

[DialRain20]

Originally Posted by akham ↗

I think that is exactly what happened.

There is no way a bird strike takes out your landing gear in a 737.

As blancolirio points out (vid in post above) 7 minutes between bird strike and landing isn't enough time to run all the necessary checklists, meaning pilots didn't attend to everything they needed to ... like lowering the gear. They panicked and turned a minor emergency into a major one.

I can't wait for Mayday to do an episode on this because it looks like it was just a cascade of errors that all happened within such a short time frame.