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It's in the linked Twitter thread. It was a brick wall. https://twitter.com/shukla_tarun/status/1050581391828836352 https://twitter.com/shukla_tarun/status/105
by cycrutchfield 8y ago
It's in the linked Twitter thread. It was a brick wall.
https://twitter.com/shukla_tarun/status/1050581391828836352 https://twitter.com/shukla_tarun/status/1050581391828836352
- williamscales 8y agoGood grief that's a lot of damage, how come they didn't immediately land?
- ams6110 8y agoWell a single layer, unreinforced brick wall isn't really that strong, especially near the top edge. It's perhaps plausible they didn't feel anything or at least nothing very alarming. I mean, the gear presumably still retracted properly and deployed later for landing, so it wasn't damaged too badly.
- djsumdog 8y agoYea I'm interested in seeing what the passengers say. If they just heard a bump or didn't suspect a thing, the plane may have just graised it and the pilots didn't notice. If the passengers heard a noticeable sound or reported concerns and were dismissed, that's grounds for negligence.
- userbinator 8y agoThe other photo posted here shows that it was a rather thin brick wall too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18205837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18205837 I guess the majority of the damage was done by the large steel antennae it hit before the wall.
- lbriner 8y agoI don't know about you but I hear plenty of clunks and wirring on planes during take off and landing, sometimes uncomfortably loud and even though I know a bit about planes, I don't know if it's normal or not. (I'm alive so I assume it is normal!) One takeoff I was on, the plane was vibrating like crazy, like I've never heard before but after a few minutes, it stopped and nothing happened!