Animation of Asiana Flight 214 crash...

[PoliticAverse]

Wired.com related article...
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/07/ntsb-wraps-up-asiana-214/

[pinto]

1. Great animation from all the reports we've heard. Thankfully the plane remained upright.

Assume the blue plane in the animation represents a standard approach / landing.

[PoliticAverse]

2. One problem with the animation is the Asiana flight's speed was below normal...

so the plane should really be falling a bit behind the blue 'standard landing'.

[pinto]

3. Yeah. Good point.

(aside) Did you see this ridiculous piece of news "reporting"?

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-tv-stations-airing-of-racist-pilot-names-sparks-furor-20130713,0,5424832.story

[Plucketeer]

4. Classic "stall".

When it hit the seawall, it was proceeding on inertia, no longer was it "flying".

[sgsmith]

5. Basic flaw in the clip

San Francisco (SFO) is in the middle of a construction project that expands the runway overrun areas. As part of that project, the runway threshold (which is shown by the multiple stripes that go from runway edge to runway edge) has been moved approximately 300 ft from where this graphic shows.

This displacement to a new threshold is not show in the current Google maps, and it appears that Google maps is the imagery source.

So, the ghost airplane should actually be higher than shown, because it has to land about 300 feet further down the runway. Instead it lands on the 1000 ft touchdown aim point.

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[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. so, if they hadn't throttled up, they would have made it.....even if by......

The skin of thier teeth.

[backscatter712]

8. I don't see that.

They pitched up at the last minute (perhaps that's what you meant), and the tail slammed into the seawall at the end of the runway, along with the main landing gear, which broke off as it was designed to. I'd say that by the time the pilots bought a vowel and solved the puzzle, it was already too late, and the plane was going to crash one way or another.

[02potato]

7. the best pace to crash in ON THE AIRPORT!

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If you have to.

[Gumboot]

9. Approach was too low & too slow.

You run out of options very quickly at that point.