Plane flips over after crash-landing in Somalia
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Plane flips over after crash-landing in Somalia
A plane has crashed and flipped over on landing at the airport in Somalia's capital but there were no fatalities among the more than 30 people on board.
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More pics at avherald: Accident: Jubba F50 in Mogadishu on Jul 18th 2022, flipped over on landing
Nose gear is missing a wheel and turned 90°, and left main gear missing. The fuselage looks surprisingly intact, but there is a tear in the skin next to the right prop. Glad there were no serious injuries.
Nose gear is missing a wheel and turned 90°, and left main gear missing. The fuselage looks surprisingly intact, but there is a tear in the skin next to the right prop. Glad there were no serious injuries.
Extra ordinary pics, F50 fuselage seems to be a very rugged construction being seemingly intact after landing on its back and having both wings torn off. I suppose it is similar if not the same as the F27 /FH227 forebears designed and built in the 1950s where ruggedness for this type of aircraft was essential given the kind of places they would routinely operate to. Mogadishu sounds an incredibly scary place to operate into.
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Extra ordinary pics, F50 fuselage seems to be a very rugged construction being seemingly intact after landing on its back and having both wings torn off. I suppose it is similar if not the same as the F27 /FH227 forebears designed and built in the 1950s where ruggedness for this type of aircraft was essential given the kind of places they would routinely operate to. Mogadishu sounds an incredibly scary place to operate into.
It was certainly not the same, Wikipedia will give you some basic upgrade information. Much improved engines and modern cockpit and modern interiors are examples.
One thing that did not change was the general layout with the high wing and long MLG legs required for the rough and unimproved runways. These required for the original F27 Friendship being the successful DC3 replacement.
Extra ordinary pics, F50 fuselage seems to be a very rugged construction being seemingly intact after landing on its back and having both wings torn off. I suppose it is similar if not the same as the F27 /FH227 forebears designed and built in the 1950s where ruggedness for this type of aircraft was essential given the kind of places they would routinely operate to. Mogadishu sounds an incredibly scary place to operate into.
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Fokker 50 Crash Somalia
Jubba Airways Fokker 50 by the looks of things https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-62212987
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Hans: agree with the first staement, not the second. I never flew the '50, but have some 6,000 hours on the '27. An aeroplane that would never let you down.
Amazing that there were no serious injuries. Says a lot for that fuselage.
Amazing that there were no serious injuries. Says a lot for that fuselage.
F50 Cockpit design is still better than anything else I have seen.
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You probably meant aileron into the good engine (bank into the good engine), in order to raise the dead engine.
https://youtu.be/Wbu6X0hSnBY
https://youtu.be/Wbu6X0hSnBY
after accelerating much less control travel required to fly, but the first few hundred feet climbing at V2 were challenging.
Jeez! Is Mog really still so unsafe that people accept 18Kt tailwinds to avoid overflying the city? That makes the place damn hazardous for half the year! I really didn't like that time of year, it did expose you to small-arms fire from the city no matter what you did and individual approaches like mine irritated the **** out of the US 'controllers' who wanted to drag you over half the country on a 20 mile DME arc and then over the entire city at 1500ft on finals! You couldn't make it up!
This was my verion of dealing with the SW monsoon wind, a month or so before the Blackhawk incident. Can't see why a little Fokker shouldn't do much the same on such a long runway but clearly not an option for jets.
Not much progress there in thirty years then. Makes me wonder why did we bother?
This was my verion of dealing with the SW monsoon wind, a month or so before the Blackhawk incident. Can't see why a little Fokker shouldn't do much the same on such a long runway but clearly not an option for jets.
Not much progress there in thirty years then. Makes me wonder why did we bother?
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Looking at the video, I’d guess it’s not so much the tailwind, but the fact it appears to land short of the runway and the then higher surface disassembles the aircraft in short measure. Stops quickly though.
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Not only does it land short but quite heavily too. I'd say that a tailwind could well have contributed to that outcome.