Little-Acorn
Gold Member
Fox News just showed a picture of the beginning of the runway, and the area before the beginning.
Looks to me like the pilot came in to low, and caught the landing gear on the sea wall before he got to the runway.
There's a debris trail (actually two debris trails, looks like one for each main gear) starting exactly where the sea wall is, then it gets bigger and more spread out as you move toward the runway.
My guess is, the plan landed very short, almost put the wheels in the water bafore the runway, then the wheels (and maybe the engines under the wings) hit the sea wall, ripped off, maybe the tail hit too and came off. Then the rest of the plane slid down the runway and finally stopped.
Scariest part is that it looks like all the fire was INSIDE the fuselage. Gonna be a lot of casualties. Burns, smoke inhalation, this is a nasty one.
If the tail had come off while the plane was still in the air, the plane would have nosed down VERY sharply. If it was high enough, it would have pulled negative Gs until it was pointing straight down. Looks like it didn't do that, thank God.
Looks to me like the pilot came in to low, and caught the landing gear on the sea wall before he got to the runway.
There's a debris trail (actually two debris trails, looks like one for each main gear) starting exactly where the sea wall is, then it gets bigger and more spread out as you move toward the runway.
My guess is, the plan landed very short, almost put the wheels in the water bafore the runway, then the wheels (and maybe the engines under the wings) hit the sea wall, ripped off, maybe the tail hit too and came off. Then the rest of the plane slid down the runway and finally stopped.
Scariest part is that it looks like all the fire was INSIDE the fuselage. Gonna be a lot of casualties. Burns, smoke inhalation, this is a nasty one.
If the tail had come off while the plane was still in the air, the plane would have nosed down VERY sharply. If it was high enough, it would have pulled negative Gs until it was pointing straight down. Looks like it didn't do that, thank God.
