Amazon 767 over run MIA
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gotoPzero

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It appears an Amazon cargo aircraft has gone off the runway at MIA.
Reports of fatalities on the ground. The aircraft itself looks whole - but it looks to have crossed at least one road.

gotoPzero

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ADSB logs are not pretty. Was >190kt on short final, 178kt over the threshold.


AB

20,393 posts

224 months

Doesn't look great! At least not a passenger plane I suppose.


paulguitar

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142 months

gotoPzero said:
It appears an Amazon cargo aircraft has gone off the runway at MIA.
Reports of fatalities on the ground. The aircraft itself looks whole - but it looks to have crossed at least one road.
It's missing the right wing, I think






gotoPzero

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350m off the paved surface. Appears to have hit at least 2 cars on the road.

DJC76

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154 months

gotoPzero said:
ADSB logs are not pretty. Was >190kt on short final, 178kt over the threshold.
The METAR doesn’t look pretty either. Looks like they were landing on 31 with a gusting wind from 190 degrees which would be an interesting choice if correct.

gotoPzero

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Video of the landing seems to show a very late touch down but also looked like they only had 1 main gear down due to the cross wind. (edit to add when I say down I mean with contact on the runway)

WoW? It sure looks like the reversers are stowed for the roll out.

Edited by gotoPzero on Sunday 6th September 21:44

jimmyjimjim

8,271 posts

267 months

Reddit link for the slide. As commented, it looks like the no.2 engine has a car inside it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1w9bl1g...

Video of the landing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1w97ffp...

smallpaul

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165 months

gotoPzero said:
Video of the landing seems to show a very late touch down but also looked like they only had 1 main gear down due to the cross wind. (edit to add when I say down I mean with contact on the runway)

WoW? It sure looks like the reversers are stowed for the roll out.

Edited by gotoPzero on Sunday 6th September 21:44
You can sort of see it might be wheelbarrowing down the runway on the nosegear. If there's no weight on the main gear AFAIK on 767 spoilers and reversers will not deploy until main gear triggers weight on wheels sensor.

Edited by smallpaul on Monday 7th September 12:11

Watchthis

598 posts

91 months

I wonder at what point did the penny drop for the pilots that they'd f#£ked up

LotusOmega375D

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182 months

Looks like it ended up adjacent to a whole car park of stored Teslas. Could have been a nasty fire if they’d caught hold.

fooman

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93 months

LotusOmega375D said:
Looks like it ended up adjacent to a whole car park of stored Teslas. Could have been a nasty fire if they d caught hold.
Fortunately no Range Rover diesels in the car park to get the fire started.

aeropilot

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256 months

Watchthis said:
I wonder at what point did the penny drop for the pilots that they'd f#£ked up
Penny should have dropped when they were heading nose down and too high and too fast as they crossed the airport perimeter looking at that video........or probably called a GA way before that.......after or before they came through that violent weather cell on approach.

5150

750 posts

284 months

I was just a few miles down the road yesterday in Miami when this happened, and was delayed leaving by over four hours while the scene was dealt with and rescue/fire fighting capabilities were re-established (as well as the aircraft we were flying back arriving in to Miami, having diverted to Orlando as a result).

Standard huge storm over the area at around the time of the accident. . . . it's a daily occurrence there, and for the most of Florida throughout the long summer period.

Without wanting to 'Monday Morning Quarterback' it too much, this almost certainly looks like a long landing as a result of a combination of tailwind and excessive energy of the aircraft. That, couple with a potential case of 'get-in-itis', which has a knock on effect of missing checks and actions such as observing approach stability in terms of speed and configuration, arming systems like ground spoilers and potentially forgetting to select reverse thrust on landing, all add up to this end result.

Not saying this was the case at all, but from LiveATC, it seems the aircraft wasn't suffering from any abnormal conditions requiring assistance (until after the event, obvs).



gotoPzero

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If you look back they were doing >220kts at 2500ft. Thats around the time they would have been on finals.
They only lost 40kts over the next 2000ft and were at c.180kts at 500ft. Just too fast and no wonder it floated.

I appreciate they throw flap and gear at the airflow for drag at the last minute but this was too fast from the start right too the end.

The conditions clearly did not help - but the 100s of other flights that day were all ok. I suspect they were behind the curve from several minutes before they touched down.

Watchthis

598 posts

91 months

If the pilots haven't been killed, and I doubt they have, they might be looking at doing bird rather than flying one again

aeropilot

40,526 posts

256 months

Watchthis said:
If the pilots haven't been killed, and I doubt they have, they might be looking at doing bird rather than flying one again
Both crew survived, possibly injured though, as they did need to be cut free from the cockpit it seems.


Crumpet

5,373 posts

209 months

As always it will be a case of holes in the Swiss cheese lining up, but it’ll be interesting to see whether ATC helped put some of those holes there for them. It wouldn’t be unusual to be set up for one approach and ATC to have other ideas and throw you onto another at the last minute.

Simpo Two

92,662 posts

294 months

5150 said:
...this almost certainly looks like a long landing as a result of a combination of tailwind and excessive energy of the aircraft. That, couple with a potential case of 'get-in-itis'...
I did wonder if the pilot felt under pressure by the huge storm behind him, and didn't want to go around and get caught in it which over-rode his normal judgement.

DJC76

13,559 posts

154 months

Crumpet said:
As always it will be a case of holes in the Swiss cheese lining up, but it ll be interesting to see whether ATC helped put some of those holes there for them. It wouldn t be unusual to be set up for one approach and ATC to have other ideas and throw you onto another at the last minute.
It was set up for R30 from a long long way out