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Old Oct 10, 2017 | 12:10 pm
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Originally Posted by nemonon
Couple of jobs on 380 going at Emirates after that. Dreadful landing within the ac's 40kt limit. Kudos to the the undercarriage designers and tyre manufacturers. The side loads of a 300 ton ac being smashed into the runway sideways must've been enormous. And the lateral forces on the necks of the pax down the back!
No hesitation from an EK pilot I spoke to who said there'd be no repercussions.

The EK aircraft have an electronic monitoring system that automatically transmit significant events, such as significant g-loads, vertical speeds, speed warnings, etc. to the bosses, so if that threw up an alert there'd be repercussions (we don't know if it did).

Comparatively the EK131 incident saw the flight crew immediately grounded and flying back to DXB as pax, not even operating the return leg.
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