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AC624 crash landed in Halifax this morning/ last night. routine flight from Toronto to Halifax. No casualties and only minor injuries reported. Ive personally flown on ac624 4 times since September.
"Skidded off the runway after hard landing" , but there is damage to a powerline under the approach path and the plane somehow lost its landing gear and ended up skidding to a stop on the fuselage and not the gear.
thats crazy i travel to and from halifax from ottawa frequently. my sister lives there and i have friends in halifax. i usually go westjet or porter, however. scary though! glad to hear it was just a rough landing that lead to no serious injuries.
'Landed' runway 05, in very bad weather conditions:
CYHZ 290313Z 35020G26KT 1/2SM R14/3500V4500FT/N SN DRSN VV003 M06/M07 A2963 RMKSN8 SLP040
CYHZ 290300Z CCA 34019G25KT 1/4SM R14/P6000VM0300FT/N +SN DRSN VV003 M06/M07 A2962 RMK SN8 /S09/ SLP038
Runway 05 has only NDB or non-precision approach without vertical guidance. Sounds like some challenging winds on final, with the pilot wanting all the runway he can get for braking. Glad no fatalities.
Bloviator'Landed' runway 05, in very bad weather conditions:
CYHZ 290313Z 35020G26KT 1/2SM R14/3500V4500FT/N SN DRSN VV003 M06/M07 A2963 RMKSN8 SLP040
CYHZ 290300Z CCA 34019G25KT 1/4SM R14/P6000VM0300FT/N +SN DRSN VV003 M06/M07 A2962 RMK SN8 /S09/ SLP038
Runway 05 has only NDB or non-precision approach without vertical guidance. Sounds like some challenging winds on final, with the pilot wanting all the runway he can get for braking. Glad no fatalities.
"Bloviator" = blow aviator?
Sounds like he knows what he's talking about, Ill take his word for it
Sounds like he knows what he's talking about, Ill take his word for it
I am an aviator, but I just fly those deadly little put-put kind of planes. Not comm stuff.
The name is just a noun form for someone who talks a lot, but never really says anything. Frex; "Oh my god - now you're going to gibber-jabber about gibber-jabber!".
bloviate
[ ˈblōvēˌāt ]
VERB US informal
talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way.
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BloviatorI am an aviator, but I just fly those deadly little put-put kind of planes. Not comm stuff.
The name is just a noun form for someone who talks a lot, but never really says anything. Frex; "Oh my god - now you're going to gibber-jabber about gibber-jabber!".
No.... you are a commercial pilot who has an awesome addiction to coke and sex...
pretty surprised they didnt catch on fire.. I wonder how much fuel they had left after holding for an hour.
pretty shitty wx but it was still legal, probably a case of getting some reduced performance windshear or turbulence and the engines just didnt have enough time to spool up before hitting the ground, pretty classic CFIT.
Pretty funny that they were initially calling it a "hard landing" when it was clearly completely crashed. They got really lucky that no one was seriously hurt in the crash or the evacuation.
Pretty funny that they were initially calling it a "hard landing" when it was clearly completely crashed. They got really lucky that no one was seriously hurt in the crash or the evacuation.
I certainly don't KNOW where the gear is, but pretty sure it was extended prior to landing attempt, and was likely sheared off on first hard contact with the ground, or it seems possibly some power lines on approach. The airport power was cut about the time this plane came in.
From what I've heard the landing gear clipped some powerlines and was completely cut off. Guess there was low visibility or something and he couldn't see the lines.
Krotchs_BrotherFrom what I've heard the landing gear clipped some powerlines and was completely cut off. Guess there was low visibility or something and he couldn't see the lines.
The report someone posted there says 1/2sm, means vis was about 1/2 of a mile. Also shows a northerly wind at 20 knots gusting to 26, so like 30-35 mph or whatever the conversion is. What way is the runway oriented? could have been a nasty crosswind.
Yes, there is no reason for the gobbledegook of abbreviated METARs anymore. In the bad old days, there was a fee per character for Telex which transmitted METARs from central stations. Not for many many years.
rtl32That shits scary because today I cam back from Shanghai and flew Air Canada to Toronto. Fuck
Lol yeah i feel u lol, flew that exact flight every time ive gone home to halifax this year....but Air Canada is pretty good, and its fucking hard to get hired there as a pilot. Not something I would worry about.
