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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
Me too. How did he manage to go from the first photo to the second photo? In the second photo, the airplane is 50 degrees crabbed to the axis of the runway.
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http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?id=223249,223248,223247,223246
same link
From the angle of the camera to the runway I wonder if the first photo is a picture of another landing and not in sequence with the next 3 photos. Maybe the photographer ran a hundred yards real fast between photo 1 and photo 2 to maintain that angle. Don't know, maybe it is in sequence.
There should be a report on a landing like that with the maintenance records for the plane. I have heard landings referred to as a controlled crash. There are varying degrees of control but this one appears to push the limit. I think if he let much more of the smoke out of those tires the whole plane might have gone up in smoke. It is reassuring to know that an airliner can survive such abuse but discomforting to know that I might fly in a plane that has done so.