WOW, crazy close call, that looks awful on the video, so lucky they got everyone out....
CBS video doesn’t want to play for me, here’s the youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mcAc13dYq8
“Thiruvananthapuram”
There’s your problem!
I was in Brisbane last january awaiting a flight to Honolulu when i saw a procession of Emirates flight crew, the pilots, the stews, all dressed impeccably, all marching quite literally in unison across the terminal, but they didn’t seem happy, an almost superior smug look was there, like “We control the world attitude”.
“Pilot squawk” from flght:
Problem: “Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.”
Solution: “Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.”
And this is why I don’t wanna fly (unless I hit lotto for a private plane).
Unconfirmed speculation on some of the airliner forum sites about possible landing gear problem, or a failed go-around attempt with prematurely-retracted landing gear, compounded by wind shear and air temperature of over 120 degrees F.
(Speculation based on no facts can be fun.)
But it’s good to hear that all pax and crew evacuated safely.
This is not the first 777 to crash on landing.
I hope that hawt girl is ok, the beautiful one from the Emirates Air commercial that played over and over during the US Open tennis matches.
I am so glad I don’t live in Thiruvananthapuram.
Flight EK521 now arriving at Gate 10.......Gate 11......Gate 12......Gate 13..........