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I just heard on the news that another Qantas plane of different model, had to make emergency landing in Singapore.

This is smelling to me more like Qantas having a poor maintenance service, than the A380 having some kind of faulty engines.

This is perfectly normal procedure when a plane has to return to/land at an airport when heavily laden with fuel. It's not to reduce the risk of explosions on landing impact, it's simply because the plane is too heavy to land with all that fuel on board. Planes have a maximum landing weight that the aircraft body and landing gear can withstand, and this weight is always less than the maximum take off weight. So, if a plane has to make an emergency landing (in this case due to a hydraulic issue), they need to dump the fuel to get it below the maximum landing weight.

Saying that, fuel dumping normally occurs out at sea (for coastal airports) or over uninhabited land. However in this case, that could obviously not be done.

... in an emergency (as in the plane could potentially crash), fuel dumping is the last thing on the pilot's mind... what if the pilot dumps the fuel and recovers from the emergency? He may have dumped too much fuel to get to the nearest airport.
>> ^ponceleon:

Interesting but I have to wonder whether it is a matter of an emergency. Ultimately if a plane is having an emergency and can dump the fuel to reduce risk of explosions on impact (or elsewhere) I don't see a problem. I'd rather have a plane with little fuel falling out of the sky than a plane full of fuel falling out of the sky.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
In many of the situations were a parachute might have been useful in these accidents, the plane breaks up in mid air, making it moot
And like someone pointed out, a good majority of crashes happen on take off and landing where chutes would be relatively useless


yea most crashes happen at take off or landing, the majority of the rest happen because the pilots fly the plane in a mountain or something, most mechanical failures either kills you on takeoff, makes the plane explode or is fairly easy to recover from so you can do an emergency landing.
But almost all crashes today are due to human error in one form or another, so the planes doesn't need parachutes, it needs to get rid of the pilots and in some places their operators.

I found a news story here.

Synopsis: the passenger was ejected when the balloon hit the tent, fell about 30 feet and dislocated a hip. The balloon shot up from the weight change, and the pilot made an emergency landing, apparently without major injury on hitting the ground.

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>> ^heathen:
>> ^jimnms:
As he was landing on a section of the road he'd used several times before.

Wow, is that even legal? Obviously it's fine in an emergency case like this video, but to deliberately land on a road repeatedly - don't small aircraft need to file flight plans too?



It's not legal to just choose to land on a public roadway without a pressing reason. Doing it for convenience's sake wouldn't fly (ba dum tish) if you had to face a judge about it. Of course it sounds like the site was miles from nowhere and he probably never would've been nailed by John Law if he hadn't augered in.

One *might* be allowed to land (or take off) on *private* property without it being a registered aerodrome, in some cases anyway, but without my air law books in front of me I can't be sure.

>> ^rychan:
I think this guy did a good job. No injuries, no damage to the aircraft. He had a view of the road when he made his decision so he could see about traffic and power lines.

Power lines are not easy to see from the air, they're not even that easy to see from the ground. Next time you're out driving around, take note of how close you actually are to a power line before you can clearly see it. Then ask yourself if you could avoid that if you were in a plane with no engine doing 60-70mph.

Worrying about damage to the aircraft should the last thing on your mind when making an emergency landing. Many pilots are killed or injured because they try to save their aircraft.

I just read about this on some news site. In the article I just read, he said they had just taken off and were at 500 ft. when the engine quit.

In the video, the passenger points to the left and asks "can you make that field," and the pilot says "I don't think I can make it." Then he restarts the engine and turns AWAY from the field and directly TOWARD a populated area. Next he continues flying toward the city rather than turning back to the airport they just took off from or a safer place to ditch the plane.

I've never been in an emergency situation like this, but that's why you practice for emergencies during flight training.