Impressive resilience by the airframe. Good job Boeing.
Yes, I'd say this incident makes for a good Boeing ad - "Even a brick wall can't stop a 737 from flying a route!"
Air India Express 737 Hits ILS, Damages Wall on Departure, Flies for 4 Hours
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#22Air India, an old antiquated government subsidized airline that should die.
Sounds a lot like Alitalia.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
The 737 (subject of this article) cannot.
That's quite a design-flaw then.
Sorry boeing engineers didnt have you at the table when they were choosing features to optimize for, you know, toggling through priorities and costs of features in terms of thrust, drag, weight, power, etc.
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#25I have been trying to go over how this could happen. The damage to the wall seems so severe that I would image even over the sound of the engine the pilot would hear and notice that they had hit a wall. Flying the plane at this point would be risking their life. The first thing that came to my mind was the only reason a pilot would risk his life is if his life was already at risk and if he had been drinking when he hit the wall he would face many year in jail I assume for putting lives at risk. In a panic says to himself the plane is damaged but I know it can still fly and takes off without a plan really but perhaps just to let the alcohol he had leave his system. I hate to speculate here on HN. This is just crazy to me and I really look forward to hearing more details as to how his happened.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's quite a design-flaw then.
Care to provide your credentials to make such a claim? Especially around one of the most widely used and longest produced airliners in human history.
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#27If anything this is great free advertisement for Boeing's quality.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's quite a design-flaw then.
The Airbus A320 can't either. It's not required as long as the landing system is designed to handle the fully-loaded weight.
Correct. Even on the much bigger A330 wide body, fuel dump is only an option: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1351703
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#29The obvious mystery is why you would keep flying for so long after an incident like this...
A good reason would be fuel weight on possibly damaged landing gear.
Also, the airport wasn't good anymore. They had just destroyed the Instrument Landing System at the end of the runway. Nobody should land there.
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#30I have been trying to go over how this could happen. The damage to the wall seems so severe that I would image even over the sound of the engine the pilot would hear and notice that they had hit a wall. Flying the plane at this point would be risking their life. The first thing that came to my mind was the only reason a pilot would risk his life is if his life was already at risk and if he had been drinking when he h…
How will the alcohol ‘leave his system’ in the 4 hours it takes to fly to Dubai from India?