Close call: 744 versus van at Luxembourg

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

A Cargolux Boeing 747-400 freighter, registration LX-OCV performing flight CV-7933 from Barcelona,SP (Spain) to Luxembourg (Luxembourg), was cleared to land on Luxembourg's runway 24 in low visibility due to fog (RVR 350 meters), when one of the tyres impacted the roof of a van parked on the runway at 12:53L (11:53Z). The airplane landed safely, the driver of the van escaped with just a shock, the van received substantial damage, the airplane suffered damage to the tyre.

http://avherald.com/h?article=42620150&opt=0

[John Davis PC]

Wow ... how lucky was that for all concerned !

[Will]

Wow, too close for comfort.

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

I suppose the fact that it was a 747 actually saved the day -- I guess the bogey struck the van's roof when still fully tilted, and could give about a meter without the full weight of the plane on it. Just 1000 kg at 150 knots.

[Shiv Mathur]

The past two days have been terrible for flights.  

[John Davis PC]

Just 1000 kg at 150 knots.

Which can kill you just as easily as 500 Tonnes at 150 kts if it was an inch or 2 lower

[Qavion]

It seems, that tire did not blow-up, because than driver would not be only in shock and van would probably be in pieces too...

And I thought servicing tyres with pure oxygen was a rare occurence :-/

Gotta love those informed armchair experts )

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[John Davis PC]

Gotta love those informed armchair experts )

Presumably he doesn't follow his logic through Ian ... the tires would blow up if they hit something hard like a runway !   hitting a van would be like running over Dog S**t

[Hardy Heinlin]

Good that there were no snow chains on the tires.