NTSB Prelim UAL 767 Hard landing KIAH 29 July 2023

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Theme: "Weightless" Aram Bedrosian

[HeavyMetalHorizons]

As pilots we all strive to minimize the number of kablamoos per flight.

[gerrycarmichael]

One of my old flight instructors would say, "Son do ya see that nose gear? That ain't landing gear it's steering gear. Don't land on it."

[Mark-ojwj]

The more I watch this channel, the more blessed I feel to be a retired pilot who got away without even scratching an aeroplane!

[craigc]

I can confirm that the aircraft was repaired and returned to service. I also witnessed the repair of the ANA 67 you show as an example of a hard landing. We call it a “broken back” - it happens. Very rare though.

[norduferhandel]

As a retired A&P for US Airways i watched the heavy maintenance shop next door remove and replace the entire fuselage pressure vessel top skin from the cockpit to the tail cone on a SAAB 340 due to massive hail damage.
Totally amazing work by that shop.
That plane flew out to a paint shop and back into service.

[Drewmeeks]

@blancolirio just so your aware but the aircraft is officially listed as repair, United has it parked at hanger X in houston. We are waiting on Boeing to come fix aircraft 6441.

[SynergyStudios]

I work at a heavy maintenance company. The older guys have a story about a plane like this. It was a 767 that had a wrinked skin from a hard landing. The owners had bolted a reinfocement exoskeleton to the exterior, and the ferry pilots put her down very gingerly when she arrived at our airport. I think it took a pretty long time and iirc they repleced the entire belt of skin around the fusalage one massive panel at a time so as not to weaken it too much during repairs. That said I'm sure they had the shore the hell out of the fusalage to keep it supported the entire time.

[tomh.]

I'm an A&P that specializes in Nondestructive Testing. I'll bet they had 6 guys doing eddy current inspection ALL over the surrounding bulkheads and probabley the wheels and gear for good measure. I have this bumber sticker on my golf cart: "I'm here because you broke something."

[rodcoulter]

Wide body jets require “very soft hands.”..Getting the “Mains” on the ground is only about 50% of the landing. “Fly the nose wheel down is the other 50%… Great video…from a former UAL 757/767 guy who flew that exact tail # many times.

[blabla]

Pilot's prayer "Dear Lord, please make sure I don't end up on the Blancolirio Channel".

[philipjamesparsons]

It can all go wrong pretty fast. I remember a Thomson, 767 having a hard landing in Bristol, UK. The fuselage was buckled and they built a tent around the plane while the buckle was repaired. There was a TV program about it, "World's Toughest Fixes 767." AAIB report said the pilot flying inadvertently pushed the column forward after the first bounce; said he should have locked the inertia reel on the seat. When it's super windy, I do that now.

[mundayoreo]

I used to operate a Bobcat skid steer loader. The very same PIO would happen occasionally. The more it bounced, the more you held on, and the worse it got. They only way to stop it is to hands off the steering controls until it settles.

[andy_in_colorado]

Scott Manley has a great (and humorous) video about Fred Haise inducing a PIO while piloting the space shuttle Enterprise on a test flight. And there were a whole bunch of dignitaries on hand to catch it.

[stevenverhaegen]

Cleared direct KABLAMO -sounds like a name for a reporting point 😄👍

[weschilton]

Juan, your analyses of these events are just so well done and interesting! Thanks for all you do!

[dmoore]

Another great KABLAMO report by Juan. Thank you. I miss the days of the Oroville Dam reports and fly overs!!

[smartysmarty]

My dad was a partner in a 182 way back in the day. It was a 1968, and one of the partners porpoised it and bent up the firewall. I was only 10 years old at the time, and my dad pointed out the damage to me. At the time, to my 10 year old mind, it seemed insignificant but the insurance company totaled the plane and they bought a new 1973 model. I looked up the N number a few years ago. It was never scrapped. Someone bought it, put a new paint scheme on it (like we see on 182's now) and it's absolutely beautiful.

[jimgrant]

I remember when I was working on my private pilot license, I had an experience with PIO. We did a missed approach. My flight instructor told me to relax on the yolk when the nose gear touched down. As I came back around, I was trying to remember everything I had learned. We did the approach brief, and he talked me through what not to do and what to expect if PIO happened again. The second attempt was probably my best landing of the time. I had about 10 hours flight logged. Never had another PIO again.

[T_Mo]

Thanks for publishing the cover page of the report at 1:54. The company (STI) is still in business, still at the same address, and the 2nd author was one of the company founders (in 1957). That's an extraordinary run in any technology field.

[homan]

I love your video's and the professionalism you put into you break downs of each incident.
I do feel pretty terrible for the pilot in this one however.
When I was a kid (9 or 10), my dad came home from work early one evening. His entrance stunned my mother and her reaction caught my attention. She wondered why he was home early from flying at his small regional commercial job. We learnt his twin otter's right wing clipped another twin otters tail while being marshalled into the terminal. As my father was the captain of the aircraft and sitting left seat, it would eventually be his First Officer and the airport terminal employee marshalling the right side that would see discipline. He was temporarily suspended for a few days as the company investigated, but he was cleared of any reprimand and returned to work. Its the only time in life I ever remember him being a shadow of himself. That minor infraction weighed on him tremendously.
At 47 I'm still reminded: "To error is human, yet it is against company policy"