man this one hurts

[jrpilot]

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/632272/L/

[flyboy 28]

Ooof... :-/

Man, those rookies...

[chomp_rock]

Geez, I wonder if the PIC lost his/her job, he or she no doubt caused more than a few thousand in damage.

[RichieB16]

Wow, I'll bet that made an interesting sound.  Reminds me of the time I was on a school swimming trip and our bus driver bottomed the bus out and got it stuck-lol.

[X56SB]

now thats a butt first landing  ;D

[ATI_7500]

Geez, I wonder if the PIC lost his/her job, he or she no doubt caused more than a few thousand in damage.

Not to forget the environmental damage he did because of dumping fuel over the black forest...

[chomp_rock]

Not to forget the environmental damage he did because of dumping fuel over the black forest...

I'll bet it wasn't that bad.

[ATI_7500]

Not as bad as damaging an aircraft,huh?  ::)
They had to dump serveral tons of fuel.

[alrot]

I wonder if they where passeges and what they would feel

[chomp_rock]

[quote]Not as bad as damaging an aircraft,huh?

[ATI_7500]

And what about the atmosphere?  ;)

[Craig.]

wouldnt be much worse than the jet exhaust from it anyway. Now if we were talking about this happening all the time then there would be an enviromental problem. Doubt the PIC would have have been fired for this, it happens maybe a reprimand. Then again i dont know company policy in this case so i could be wrong.

[Meyekul]

Talk about an expensive, simple mistake...  Beyond the obvious damage to the aircraft and environment, consider the cost of all the fuel he dumped, and the cost of moving all those passengers to a new flight.  Good thing they have insurance I guess.  Shouldn't there be a quicker way to dump fuel in an emergency like this?  40 minutes seems like a long time to fly around, dumping fuel, wondering if your tail is about to fall off...

[Hagar]

I have to agree with Exploder on this one. Some years ago an airliner dumped fuel on a field in the Gatwick area by mistake. The captain was reprimanded but nothing has grown in that field ever since.

It's obviously necessary in an emergency but there's really nowhere you can dump that amount of fuel safely without affecting the environment in some way. If it goes in the sea, which is the usual "dumping ground" around here, it affects everything living there, maybe for many years afterwards. We're gradually polluting the food we depend on to survive. I don't know the answer.

[RichieB16]

Just out of curosity, is dumping the fuel in this cases like this done to help minimize the risk of fire in the event of a crash (since the damage to the plane is unknown) or is it standard for all early "emergency type" landings due to weight and aircraft balance?