China airlines scarey !!!!!

[Sprucegoose]

I will let you decide!!

YouTube - China Airlines struggles to get airborne

 

[moa999]

scary indeed, but they managed to clear the radar masts at the end of the runway
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unlike some other airline at MEL

 

[Sprucegoose]

Indeed they did!

 

[blueflamenco]

Yikes! And I put my life in their hands

 

[Dalescott]

Flying with China Eastern Airlines in April, will I need my pray bead.
I laugh at Danger(as a cold sweat breaks out on my forehead and my hands get clammie)

 

[trooper]

Hmm... Let's get this straight... when ANYone takes an isolated incident involving QF and blows it out of proportion then it is "QANTAS bashing" and is to be universally derided...

..but take one incident involving "insert OTHER airlines name" and we can generalise away?

Seems a little one sided to me!

 

[moa999]

yes.
but this one didn't make front page of the smh or terrigraph


On my prior comment, am actually very surprised that MEL airport surveillance footage of the EK incident never made it to the interwebs

 

[Flying Fox]

Hmm... Let's get this straight... when ANYone takes an isolated incident involving QF and blows it out of proportion then it is "QANTAS bashing" and is to be universally derided...

..but take one incident involving "insert OTHER airlines name" and we can generalise away?

Seems a little one sided to me!

I agree and was going to say something similar. If you did a recent count, QF would be worse off. Admittedly, QF haven't lost an aircraft but they have also had very had incidents as we all know.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think that China Airlines is the best airline in the world but we should have a more balanced view.

 

[trooper]

Well said....

Mind you I must admit that I am quite happy to NOT fly with that mob.... but the video has nothing to do with that!! :mrgreen:

 

[UP4014]

Hmm... Let's get this straight... when ANYone takes an isolated incident involving QF and blows it out of proportion then it is "QANTAS bashing" and is to be universally derided...

..but take one incident involving "insert OTHER airlines name" and we can generalise away?

Seems a little one sided to me!

But it's funny, if you had a choice of these two airlines..........I'd be going with QF myself.

 

[Nigelinoz]

Not the greatest take off I have ever seen but if I spent half an hour watching plane videos on youtube I probably would never get on another aircraft in my life.
If you really want to see something scary have a search on youtube for video of a Russian freighter (Think it was a IL 76) taking off from CBR-uses ALL of the runway-and I mean ALL.
Not carrying passengers obviously but still amazing.
Cheers
N'oz

 

[Timba-Jet]

I wonder what the window passengers were thinking when the started seeing grass and dirt instead of tarmac, and were still waiting for lift off.

But as reminder, flying with even the safety questionable airlines is safer than most other modes of transport.

 

[Oneworldplus2]

I did SYD-DPS a number of years ago on Air Garuda. The take off felt exactly like the one in the YouTube Vid. I thought the plane was going to end up on the bottom of Botany Bay. Never again.

 

[Sprucegoose]

Admitedly I did have a very long takeoff in Perth on a very hot day on SAA 340-300 That was full of pax and one presumes, fuel!

Did we get to the keys? It certainly felt like it.

 

[mannej]

Admitedly I did have a very long takeoff in Perth on a very hot day on SAA 340-300 That was full of pax and one presumes, fuel!

Did we get to the keys? It certainly felt like it.

I must admit taking of in an A340 seems to be not as powerful as if you were in a big twin jet


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[jb747]

That's a really interesting piece of video.

I suspect that there is more to this story. There is almost no elevator deflection at rotate, and there is no attempt to rotate at what would be the normal 'get scared' point.

I think we have a sentence, but the rest of the chapter is missing....

 

[Sprucegoose]

That's a really interesting piece of video.

I suspect that there is more to this story. There is almost no elevator deflection at rotate, and there is no attempt to rotate at what would be the normal 'get scared' point.

I think we have a sentence, but the rest of the chapter is missing....

How's this for the whole chapter then?

YouTube - Close call!

 

[jb747]

How's this for the whole chapter then?

YouTube - Close call!

That's one of the great clips Spruce...especially the vodka comment. But, it's hopefully from a different book.

I'm not one to defend some other operators, but I just don't see an aircraft charging towards the end of the runway, with no elevator deflection as all that normal. Can we carry over the video of the freight operation, and all that implies? Well, perhaps, but I'd really hate that to be correct....

 

[oz_mark]

The takeoff shown in the video in the OP occured iat Saga Airport, Japan. While it may not help, here is the discussion from PPRUNE: Cracked CAL 737 only just gets airborne - PPRuNe Forums

 

[Sprucegoose]

That's one of the great clips Spruce...especially the vodka comment. But, it's hopefully from a different book.

I'm not one to defend some other operators, but I just don't see an aircraft charging towards the end of the runway, with no elevator deflection as all that normal. Can we carry over the video of the freight operation, and all that implies? Well, perhaps, but I'd really hate that to be correct....

Yes the VodkaBurner was out of CBR I believe.