747 cargo departs runway into sea- Hong Kong 20/10/25

[Marty_d]

Cargo plane skids off Hong Kong airport runway into sea, leaving two dead

WWW.BBC.COM

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The Emirates flight EK9788 was arriving from Dubai when it hit a vehicle on the north runway.

 

 

[onetrack]

Landing empty, and just skidded straight off to the left, and through the perimeter fence after touchdown? The airport security patrol car with the two victims was incredibly unfortunate to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

It's hard to understand how this runway departure came about, unless it was a brake malfunction, a reverse thrust mechanism problem on one engine, or a nose gear failure.

 

Then again, it could've been some landing configuration error on the part of the crew. I recall a B777 that screwed up a landing in Munich, caused by crew confusion when using autoland.

 

The B777 went all over the show, but still pulled up intact, and no-one was hurt! The initiator of the landing shambles, was localiser signal interference from a departing RJ85.

 

Autoland Runway Excursion Blamed On Pilots

AVWEB.COM

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German investigators say a runway excursion by Boeing 777 that was on autoland was the fault of the pilots. The unusual incident happened in November of 2011

 

[facthunter]

All will be revealed. There should be plenty of Data and evidence. Nev

[Moneybox]

Pretty accurate reporting...

 

Emirates has confirmed to the BBC in a statement that flight EK9788 "sustained damage" on landing at the Hong Kong airport.

 

You can always trust the media.

[danny_galaga]

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/cargo-plane-engine-accelerated-before-fatal-hong-kong-crash-investigators-say-2025-11-19/

 

One thrust reverser not working, which apparently is allowed. But on landing, that engine accelerated. A question for all you big boy pilots, how much of the reverse thruster aspect is automated? From the view of an ignorant like me, it sounds like that engine was just doing its job, just that it didn't 'know' that the reverse thrust mechanisms weren't in play 

[facthunter]

Reverse thrust has to go through an interlock. Normal throttle close to idle, then LIFT Front Knobs and pull to rear for amount off reverse Power. (The Front Part of thrust lever) pivots. The interlock mechanically PREVENTs the Lever Moving till the reversers are Unlocked. IF you wanted to apply forward Power the Interlock works both ways. You can't Physically  Push the Normal throttle Knobs forward until the Reversers are  set correctly. Nev

[facthunter]

This is Finger trouble writ BIG. An inoperative thrust reverser should not result in a write off of a Plane. Nev