Tristar Crash On Landing

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Tristar crashes on landing when the pilot let the tail drop down

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Tristar Crash On Landing

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I can't wait to see the look on your fac...
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By mau'dib 1138769319 Reply Spam [+3] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~569049~~
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- When making test like this .....
  The best advice I can give is stay out of the toilet on landing ......
  By bobby52 1162724941 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~2131539~~
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- Family guy
  Best show
  By weensieo 1138831958 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~531370~~
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- Agreed
  But if the pass was complete than it would have been a nicer play.
  By Ming The Merciless 1139381671 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~527543~~
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- What video
  are you watching???
  By socrfan 1138835755 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~519724~~
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- yeah
  what video? :P
  By Kanstad 1144270845 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~910228~~
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- Better yet......
  make the plane out of the same S**t as the black box.
  By BriteMoon 1160832870 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~2707317~~
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- Hey britemoon
  Ever heard of the term
  
  "WEIGHT"?
  By King_Reaper 1195085977 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~1074252~~
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Ok, I will.
First of all. It's not a Lockheed 1011 - Tristar. It's a DC-9/MD-80. Secondly it was done for a certification test, not an actual crash.
By Treker4747 1138768451 Reply Spam [+3] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~658648~~
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- Your right
  it looks like a stress test on the airframe, a high speed, steep angle landing.
  By 00Badger 1142190573 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~752899~~
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- Good Catch.
  Yes, the Commercial Markings were conspicuously, absent. I wish I were a fly on the wall at that debrief, NTSB Interview. "Sudden Downdraft" - check w/meteorological (too.) "Sun in flghtcrew's eyes" - check shadows. Excessive descent caused by localized "point gravity well" - (made that up!) - perhaps try too much energy induced by flightcrew IN the descent.
  
  I am going to look this up in my Aviation Week archives. Someone, please help focus the date of this. Stephen.
  By SpectreDeed 1138781780 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~536046~~
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dang...
I knew the tail cone was jettisonable ... but the entire tail section?

ya think they passed the certification?
By awwjeez 1157088372 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~2419320~~
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wow
i wanna know how people get it on camera? does every one take a video camera where ever they go?
By juramundie 1153614200 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~1786767~~
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go around!
GO AROUND!!
By Halfalien 1152254492 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~1391180~~
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you are noobs
that is a model of a fokker triplane making a test aircraft carrier landing!
By RICKWAGNER 1150546133 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~1012677~~
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Not a Tristar
The airplane is a DC9 or MD80 not a Tristar
By andkap 1147028593 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~798170~~
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heavy landing
This is the certification flight of the MD80 where they have to do a heavy landing - the landing was so heavy that the tail came off and the fuselage broke in two. There were no passengers aboard - just ballast and the pilots.
By patbarry 1143393329 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~883966~~
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So?
What's this?
By kidra_tristal 1140882238 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~712321~~
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holly cow
omg hope no 1 got hurt....what a landing
By firestormpkp 1139020486 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~666724~~
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plane tail off
now that'll take some explaining ha ha
By lgrimshaw_001 1138997245 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~570529~~
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Famous last words
"Sorry honey, but I have to use the john before we land".
By digitalhologram 1138886950 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~662305~~
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Some details on this crash.
As already pointed out, this is not a Tristar: it is a MD80. This accident took place at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on May 2nd, 1980 (pretty old!).
It was a certification test flight which was supposed to determine the horizontal distance required to land and to stop the aircraft. The pilot was actually supposed to get on the ground pretty rough, but as you all can see, the touchdown speed exceeded the structural limits of the plane.
There were seven crewmembers on board, including the flight test engineer, who had his ankle broken in the accident. The other guys were perfectly fine. :)
By HellGate 1138839557 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~651754~~
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Tristar crash
MD-80 fuselage 917 or 924.
Palmdale airport, FAA cert high sink rate landing.
By cpl 1138837629 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~661096~~
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Phone call to McDonald Douglas
Hello...R & D? FAA Certification Branch here.... Yea, I dont think your plane is ready for Cert. ...we...ahhh.... we've found some structure problems in your design so we're sending the plane back. Ahhh, hmm, ahhh ....in boxes.
By Tinpusher 1138831356 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~494212~~
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huh?
the pilot let the tail drop down? wtf? he land too fast and the impact was too hard.
By DIE HARD DUDE 1138826464 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~472569~~
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- your an idiot....
  ass
  By euro-peons; a-boot 1138945582 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~585578~~
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crash
Well that scared the hell out of me,must make sure i never get to sit at the back again.
By SKIPPY 1138804517 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~268655~~
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I'm Kettchin' Heck Now.
More than a few of my folks (Gents Too) are reading me the Riot Act.

This Test may have experienced an abnormality prior to this "photo op."

Thankyou, Peggy.

I am off to the far reaches of the Realm in the AM. Stephen.
By SpectreDeed 1138785956 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~536046~~
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Glad I was not on that.
Hope Treker4747 was correct. I would hate to think passengers were subjected to that kind of a landing.

Treker4747 What was being certified the plane or the pilot?
By Roger1941 1138770602 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~431519~~
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Explain that one
Hi boss small problem with the jet.
By WhatMeWorry 1138765358 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~650965~~
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