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Landing Plane Engulfed by Fire After Collision at Tokyo Haneda Airport

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January 03, 2024, 04:09 PM
erj_pilot
Landing Plane Engulfed by Fire After Collision at Tokyo Haneda Airport
quote:
Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
With my iPhone I can repeatedly shake it to undo a sequence of edits. Probably true for the iPad as well.
CRAAAAAAAAAP! Too late now. Frown


"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
January 03, 2024, 05:04 PM
Fly-Sig
quote:
Originally posted by Gustofer:
I was under the impression that airliners tightly control fuel loads and typically only carry enough to get from point A to point B (with some reserve, of course). The video appears to show a whole bunch of fuel in that wing. Seems odd, though I admittedly know little about these things.


The rules are a bit complex, depending on the type of operation. Domestic, overwater, etc. Generally they require landing with an extra 45 minutes of fuel, which could be tens of thousands of pounds in a large airplane like the Airbus in this accident.

If the weather is below certain limits then there must be enough fuel to also go to an alternate airport and still have 45 minutes of fuel. So that could be more tens of thousands of pounds.
January 03, 2024, 05:09 PM
erj_pilot
^^^^^
That’s more simply said…thanks, fly-sig.

My fleet…we plan a conservative 100 lb. burn per minute.

Typical normal day…landing fuel - between 7,000 and 8,000 lbs…almost 1,200 gallons.

Add an alternate for bad weather, landing fuel at our destination assuming we don’t have to go to the alternate might jump to 10,000 to 12,000 lbs. (almost 1,800 gallons) because we have to carry the fuel load fly-sig outlined above.


"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24