BC Tam 2 Report post Posted June 20, 2008 Meor, post it! Ur not affiliated with AirAsia in any ways do you? Read Meor's signature line, the bit in red You'll understand his relationship with AK is not just of 'affiliation' status More likely at 'dependance' level kan ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Radzi 2 Report post Posted June 21, 2008 I manage to get the tail strike pictures. Unfortunately i can't post it here due to safety reasons. Meor has the picture, didn't say that he took the picture. If the picture was taken by someone else, and that person told Meor not to post it anywhere, then Meor got no choice. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KK Lee 5 Report post Posted June 21, 2008 Believe this is a AK memo Dear ladies and gentlemen Recently one of our aircraft (9M A**) had experienced a tail strike upon landing at KLIA. Generally these are the details of the flight. Both Captain and First Officer have less than 600 hours on type but are well experienced with the company operations, coming from their B737 background. They were both performing 4 sectors in the afternoon comprising of an international and domestic destination. On the last landing at KUL, the weather was fine and the PIC was the PF. With consideration of the weather and fuel conservation, he elected to do a CONF 3 landing since it was an approach for Rwy 14L with the option of exiting the runway via intersection A10 available. A normal landing was conducted with that configuration and no abnormalities were experienced until touchdown. During the landing roll, an inadvertent pitch up was experienced which lead to a tail strike. The aircraft is now grounded and will definitely be out of service for at least 2 weeks. An investigation is ongoing and the findings and recommendations will be released for everyone's benefit upon completion. As a reminder and further education for every one of us, attached is a presentation from Airbus on avoiding such an incident. We now have two problems arising from landings at KUL - HARD LANDING and TAILSTRIKE which as a result is shining the wrong spotlight on us as PILOTS. Please take note of both matters and ensure that each landing is a safe landing without any incident. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ken Yen Yim 0 Report post Posted June 21, 2008 good to hear that all is working towards the better good Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steveirwin 0 Report post Posted June 22, 2008 Its was Captain s landing not the FO. I am really disappointed that every time something happen we assumed it was the FO that cause it, Personally I think the AK FOs are good and safe. Its hard enough that they are not appreciated at AK but among us, we should be more supportive as we all use to be FO sometime or another. Happy Flying Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nik H. 3 Report post Posted June 23, 2008 Its was Captain s landing not the FO. I am really disappointed that every time something happen we assumed it was the FO that cause it, Personally I think the AK FOs are good and safe. Its hard enough that they are not appreciated at AK but among us, we should be more supportive as we all use to be FO sometime or another.Happy Flying Steve, I understand how you feel. But I think your statement (bold) belongs to a Pilot forum and not this aviation forum as only a few here are those with real cockpit experience, and hence can never relate to the environment Pilots work in. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
