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18month old plane destroyed (Iberia A340-600)

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An 18month old Airbus A340-600 of spanish flag carrier IBERIA was sevearly damaged today when landing at Quito Airport in Ecuador.

 

On touchdown, one tire exploded and the aircraft slid over the runway and as a result overshot the runway. Landing gear collapsed and the aircraft fell on its left wing.

No fatalities, but some injuries occured among the 333 passengers.

 

Specialist say after first investigation that this aircraft may be written off despites its young age as 3 out of the 4 engines as well pylons are damaged, wing structure injured, landing gear damaged, and the fuselage structure shows multiple cracs...

 

 

Pictures can be found here: http://www.elperiodico.cat/info/galeriasv2...p;idgaleria=969

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Awww, poor darn thing.........I wonder if they can sell the body, would love to have those biz class seat haha

Edited by Seth K

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First time A340NG was written off

 

Those are some bad damage in that picture.

 

Azuddin

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Awww, poor darn thing.........I wonder if they can sell the body, would love to have those biz class seat haha

 

Ahem ... many many moons ago when I was a young man working in northern Germany, I 'inadvertently' entered an adult theatre and found the chairs were all airplane seats. Very comfy. :)

 

 

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If its any consolation, atleast it can still be used for spares with most of the structure remaining in tact and what appears to be 2 good engines on the starboard wing.

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Ahem ... many many moons ago when I was a young man working in northern Germany, I 'inadvertently' entered an adult theatre and found the chairs were all airplane seats. Very comfy. :)

Inadvertently huh?... a very well-planned excuse, i see :D

I used to be 'lured' to enter 'panggung mini' [mini theatre] showing 4 stars adult movies back during the secondary school days. :D :D

 

Back to the story, another lucky incident that no casualties reported. thank god.

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Luckily no casualties amongs the passengers and crew as well as the people living extremely close to the runway :blink: :blink:

 

Pretty good load for a 340 :pardon:

 

1st A340-600 write-off IMHO...

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IIRC, this is not the first time Iberia birds had landing accident in Quito, is that correct? The last one, I think, was an A346 as well?

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Some other A340-600 incident that I remember was:

 

Virgin Atlantic tail strike at Washington

China Eastern blow tires at Shang Hai

 

is there any other incident I've missed?

 

Azuddin

 

 

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Thats true.... but non was written off.. this one really broken kakaka , its a shame that it only flew 18 months total <_>

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A lovely aircraft gone to waste . They might be able to salvage whatever thats possible and just ask Airbus to build another airframe and use all the existing systems and seats .

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Quito Airport remains closed at least until Nov24th (according to NOTAM).

 

According to this link the ecuadorian transport ministry has revoked IBERIAs permission to operate to Quito Airport

 

And, another A340-600 overshot the runway today, SAA in Johannesburg: Click for Pic

 

Source: http://airlinersgallery.blogspot.com/

Edited by Georg Burdicek

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Seems like alot of Pencil Bus problem, is it becoz aircraft is too heavy for the 500/600 series hence the lousy braking performance??? Lets hope the A380 doesn't do that kind of stretch!!!!!! :angry:

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Is that me or that the fact that Iberia has not done something to obscure their logo and name on the fuselage is kind of unusual...??

 

But then again, maybe they want more publicity... :pardon: :pardon: :pardon:

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Is that me or that the fact that Iberia has not done something to obscure their logo and name on the fuselage is kind of unusual...??

 

But then again, maybe they want more publicity... :pardon: :pardon: :pardon:

 

I think it depends, I know the China Airlines that crashed in HK had done that. There are many reasons why they did not cover up their logo.

 

But I dont think it's for publicity lar... No airline would position themselves in such a way... IMO...

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Ya. lights are flashing and the camera moved like a windscreen wiper on a bumpy road. left, right, left, right, aiyahh! pening! pening! [dizzy!]

 

But why i didnt see any passenger sliding down the airplane? still taking leisure time unbuckling the seatbelts, knowing that the aircraft wouldnt go 'fireworks'? where's the 2 minutes (or was it 90secs) evac rule? :unknw:

Edited by Yusoff

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