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The video of the aircraft crossing the road wings level (well after #1 separated) and maintaining relatively controlled flight until too much energy bled off su
by sokoloff 11mo ago
The video of the aircraft crossing the road wings level (well after #1 separated) and maintaining relatively controlled flight until too much energy bled off suggests to me the aircraft was likely to be controllable to a landing if sufficient thrust was available.
- PunchyHamster 11mo ago..for a moment. If there was sufficient hydraulics damage it might've stopped being controllable. And even if they worked the fire might've damaged the plane enough. For example https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accidents/N1819U https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accid... when they lost tail engine, all of the hydraulics went down
- loeg 11mo agoTo be clear, we don't yet know if the UPS flight lost hydraulics or not. There are several somewhat redundant hydraulic systems. (Also, as a result of the Sioux City crash you linked, there were several ADs issued requiring changes to hydraulics in these airframes.)