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Old Aug 24, 2005 | 10:53 am
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wldtrvlr
 
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One of the matrons at the PC that I was in yesterday actually saw a newsclip of the landing and said the pilot landed "very hard". How they got footage of that particular flight I don't know, but she has always been a good source of information. It appears the pilot set the plane down hard (probably at too fast of a landing speed) and then hit the brakes extra hard to compensate which blew out all the tires on the side that hit the hardest on landing.
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