Amazing Feats Of Aviation: DHL Baghdad
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AVweb’s Glenn Pew reports on the Nov. 22, 2003 incident — a A DHL crew flying out of Baghdad airport was forced to land their Airbus A300 without any controllable flight surfaces after being hit with a surface to air missile. This video was produced by Glenn Pew http://www.glennpew.com/
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January 8th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Amazing flying. Whats more amazing is that the narator doesn’t take a breath for 4 minutes.
January 10th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
see iraqi is safest country in the world.wat goes up must come down.
January 13th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I’m pretty sure you mean 200 feet per minute. If you drop 200 feet in one second, that’s quite an impact.
January 16th, 2009 at 2:17 am
About as shock-and-awe as it gets.
January 18th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Right on, Keep up the Fire ! Pro Patria doughboy
January 19th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
forget X-plane. this is something ive never seen or heard of. um wow! amazing landing.
January 20th, 2009 at 8:06 am
I think I would have bought a lottery ticket after that.
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:06 am
GREAT video!!
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:37 am
Talk about a bad day. Struck by a missile, loss of fuel, loss of hydraulic power, structural damage, and then crash landing in a mine field. Some one buy those guys a round or two. Good job!
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:19 am
yeah Airbus planes are pretty well built alright
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:59 pm
You missed my point. A well designed hydrualic system has “fuses” built into the system. These ” fuses” act as shut off valves to keep a total hydraulic fluid loss from happening in case of exstensive damage to a section of the system. The DC-10 didn’t have the fuses and it looks like Airbus dosen’t either.
January 24th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Did you not watch the story? The plane was hit by a bloody missile! I dont care how good its built, thats gonna cause some damage! lol
January 27th, 2009 at 9:54 am
xplane rocks lol
January 28th, 2009 at 1:35 am
Sounds like they had the same problem a certain DC-10 had a few years back, lousy design and engineering. Total loss of hydraulics, how unacceptable.
January 29th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
And when they got out of the airplane and kissed the ground, they all said,”Thank you, Captain Al Hayes and company for giving us the knowledge to do this.”
Incredible airmanship.
Side note: Only stupid Haji terrorists can’t shoot down a JETLINER with multiple heat seeking missiles…
January 30th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
great video, well told and x plane sim footage
January 31st, 2009 at 5:46 am
Highly doubt it. What do you fly?
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:26 am
youre a fucking retard, that made no sense. If that plane barrel rolled after getting hit with an RPG, the wings would have shorn. I can tell from the beginning of your comment that you have no intelligence or maturity. So don’t bother replying to this, as you will only make yourself look more stupid.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Too bad it wasn’t you getting shot down, that would have been good.
February 4th, 2009 at 3:49 am
The professionalism these fellows showed is nothing short of amazing. Their display of problem solving skills under severe pressure is admirable indeed.
Thanks for the video.
February 6th, 2009 at 11:40 am
schweizer müsste man sein, denn die haben die dhl-maschine KONSEQUENT NACH UNTEN GEHOLT! (allerdings frisst der verantwortliche fluglotse jetzt würmer aufm zentralfriedhof)
February 9th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
God bless them
February 11th, 2009 at 1:23 am
Mate… envision a 200ft/s sink rate. Do it now. As a hint I´ll tell you that this is a bit less than the top speed a human will reach in free fall.
10 ft/s however equals 600 ft/minute which is a vertical speed any modern aircraft has to be able to survive with landing weight.
The GREASED landing you speak of is around 200-250 ft/minute.
February 15th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
10FPS almost normal? This guy don’t know what he’s talking about 200FPS (feet Per Seconds) is called a greaced landing. 10FPS is god on an airplane!