lot b767 makes bellylanding at Warsaw

[SkyPlane]

Movie from inside during the emergency landing:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6ee_1320430499

[B767-300ER]

This is indeed a total W/O.

And you know this how...?

Use your common sense
The costs to repair will be much higher than the economic value of a 15 yo B767-3..

Remember TFL's PH-AHQ, wich damaged a part of the wing at CHQ at dec 2007? Aircraft was 17 yo then. Only a part of the wing (1,2m) has been broken of the plane. Even that was an econimc written off. (TUI decided to repair the plane because they needed him to earn some money, but the costs of the repair where much higher than the economic value)

When i see the damage of this plane, its much more than just a part of the wing...........

[flying_kiwi]

This is indeed a total W/O.

And you know this how...?

Use your common sense
The costs to repair will be much higher than the economic value of a 15 yo B767-3..

My common sense says its far too early to say what the repair costs will be, and whether they'll be more than the insured value of the aircraft.

My gut feeling is that this will be repaired fairly quickly, and the aircraft put back into service. The fuselage damage will be similar to a that of a tailstrike (only covering a wider area), and should be able to be repaired with new stringers and reskinning the fuselage. The engines will be written off, and the wings shouldn't be damaged as the engines took the brunt of the damage.

It's possible that there is more damage that cannot be seen with the naked eye, which is why it could still go either way.

Yorden

[Stratofreighter]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXWaBrE9_qo[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXWaBrE9_qo

LOT 767 gear-up crash probe advises checklist changes

5 hours ago

Polish investigators are recommending amendments to checklists to help pilots cope with alternate undercarriage deployment failure,
following the gear-up landing by a LOT Boeing 767-300ER.

While the inquiry has attributed the failure to a pulled circuit-breaker, it has yet to determine the probable reason why the breaker was in this state.

The aircraft had suffered loss of pressure in the central hydraulic system after departing Newark on 1 November 2011, a problem subsequently traced to a damaged hose in the main landing-gear.

But having chosen to continue the flight to Warsaw the pilots found that the undercarriage would not deploy during the alternate landing-gear extension procedure.

While the LOT crew managed to perform a successful gear-up landing on Warsaw's runway 33, with no injuries to the 231 occupants,
the inquiry points out that the quick-reference handbook did not contain any guidance for dealing with complete failure of the primary and alternate landing-gear systems.
PKBWL is advising development of a checklist for handling such a situation.

LOT opted not to repair the aircraft (SP-LPC) but instead auction its components.

Excerpts from http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... es-378418/