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http://www.myfoxal.com/story/23132290/p ... th-airportA spokesperson for the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport has confirmed a plane crash on Wednesday morning.
Toni Herrera-Bast says a large cargo plane crashed around 5 a.m. near North Eastlake Boulevard. The crash scene is not within the airport fence.
Two people were on board the plane. At this time, they have not been located
Minimum landing distance for A306 freighter is 5364 ft.Treeper wrote: isn't 7100ft a bit short for a full and heavy A306 freighter?
I had the same idea before about the cockpit of Panam 103 and the Turkish airlines crash at AMS.stratofreighter wrote:Photos from the cockpit:
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/08/pla ... gham-.html
Not much damage due to fire apparently, but the impact forces from the underside must have been severe...
The last sentence above is an answer to your question.Treeper wrote:strange they went for RWY18 iso RWY24. 24 is almost 5000ft longer than 18.
even with mild weather, which it appeared it was, isn't 7100ft a bit short for a full and heavy A306 freighter?
In their third press briefing on Aug 16th 2013 the NTSB said, the "recorders did their job", there are good data, the cockpit voice recorder as well as the flight data recorder hold the entire flight. The captain (ATPL, 8,600 hours total, 3,200 hours on type) was pilot flying, the first officer (ATPL, 6,500 hours total, 400 hours on type) was pilot monitoring, the crew briefed the LOC approach runway 18, 2 minutes prior to the end of recording the aircraft received landing clearance on runway 18, 16 seconds before end of recordings there are two audible alerts by the GPWS "Sink Rate! Sink Rate!", 13 seconds prior to end of recording one crew member said "runway in sight", 9 seconds prior to end of recording sounds consistent with impact occurred. The flight data recorder contains more than 400 parameters requiring verification that these parameters are valid, this process takes time. It holds 70 hours of data including the entire accident flight. There were two controllers on duty at Birmingham tower, one controller was taking a break as permitted. The remaining controller observed the crash, he saw sparks and a large bright orange flash that he interpreted as breaking of a power line, he saw the landing lights, then no longer saw the landing lights and instead saw a large orange glow, he activated the crash button. There were no alerts regarding minimum safe altitude issued by his radar system. The crew started their "duty day" in Rockford,IL at 9:30pm on Aug 13th and flew to Peoria,IL as flight 5X-617 on A306 N161UP, then to Louisville,KY again as flight 5X-617 on N161UP before departing for the accident flight 5X-1354 on N155UP.sn26567 wrote:NTSB will hold a third press briefing, at 4 p.m. (CDT) today at Birmingham International Airport.