Air France A350 Suffers Tailstrike

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[@turbofanlover]

Now THAT was a nasty tail strike.

[@LordFalconsword]

Check flight the turned into a new career opportunity.

[@rockets4kids]

Someone is in for a heck of a lot of paperwork

[@Leafdragon91]

Tenerife…

[@brianball6670]

That tail strike was at YYZ in Toronto. You should see the "after" photos of it looking up at the tail that were on CityNews. The return flight to Paris had to be cancelled.

[@Thingamajig12]

I cant tell if it was just a speed bump, but the way it looked and sounded to me he hit the tail at ~0:21 and then dragged until 0:30.... would love to see the pictures of the damage

[@fastica]

"This British Airways Boeing 747-400 executes a late go around... without suffering a tailstrike." Love that passive-aggressive remark.

[@bevo65]

Savage! 😆

[@Pouncer9000]

OTOH 3 Minutes has a history of calling tail strikes where there weren't any, so probably just showing that 3 Minutes has learned its lesson now.

[@paulreilly3904]

It's British Airways, of course it doesn't tailstrike.

[@NeonVisual]

Traditionally, the British and the French don't get along. We tried once and made Concorde, but resumed the tradition after we both got bored of supersonic passenger planes.

[@Pouncer9000]

@@paulreilly3904 Britain doesn't do strikes anymore, not since she-who-must-not-be-named

[@Leaferr]

ahahaha the shade towards the A350 pilots on the 747-400 clip has me cracked up

[@CarlosMartinez-is1xz]

Wait a minute, but BA has already retired all its 747-400s!!

[@LeoPIayzYT]

@@CarlosMartinez-is1xz Wait a minute, THAT DOESNT MATTER

[@PM01100]

Wait a minute, BA did the exact same tail strike with one of their 350s few months ago. Same scenario: long flare followed by a go-around, maybe it has to do with the aircraft type.

[@3DProjectsRC]

It amazing how the pilot landed the helicopter in such a tight space. Amazing skill

[@coldlakealta4043]

skill and dedication to the patient

[@KevinBenskin]

😂

[@georgebruce4281]

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[@georgebruce4281]

​@@coldlakealta4043😊 2:42

[@tootallno]

Thats not really tight. Normal spot. Camera angel makes it look tight

[@janofb]

That wasn't a tail strike, that was a tail crush.

[@FlightEagle]

Well done on a video with accurate descriptions and no click-bait. Enjoyed and appreciated.

[@anthonysaiters6381]

Thank you for including credits to my photograph. I appreciate your integrity. Anthony Saiters

[@3MinutesofAviation]

It's a pleasure, thanks for letting me feature your photograph!

[@yuenbarnby8228]

How that helicopter managed to land in a garden is completely mind blowing. Hats off to the pilot.🫡

[@jjbankert]

Pretty cool yeah! Also technically not a garden but a public playground. Very nice for the children.

[@reddeviluk]

​@@jjbankertmy garden wouldn't fit a remote control helicopter.....

[@roblindhoud-jr3bt]

Yeah i am from the netherlands

[@johnny_eth]

It was Tom Cruise practicing a scene for the next mission impossible.

[@rtbrtb_dutchy4183]

@@roblindhoud-jr3btthat added a lot to the conversation. Thanks.

[@paullinkins8121]

Many years ago I had a medical evac helicopter land in the street immediately in front of my house. Similar tight conditions to this one. Kid ended up being OK after a surgery.

[@Your_Local_Nerd]

1:16 Dang, that runway angle looks really amazing

[@mectag]

I‘ve been watching your videos pretty regularly for quite some time, and I just wanted to say: Thank you for making great videos, which are not clickbait (even the clip from the thumbnail always plays first), with great descriptions of what happened (even for non-enthusiasts), and credit to the author! There’s still hope on KZbin. Keep making great content ❤

[@rod_at_adelaide5766]

He doesn't actually make the videos, they are created by the KZbinrs who actually film the videos and post them. But does a great job of collating them so we can enjoy them.

[@mectag]

@@rod_at_adelaide5766 I know, that’s why I’m also pointing out the great credit. 😄 I mean making the compilations to post on KZbin

[@MmntechCa]

It may look like an accident, but the sparks are how they light the APU for more power.

[@rharbarenko]

LOL I was thinking something similar. The APU is fine! Its just a scratch! its fine....

[@smcdonald9991]

hahahaah

[@kitbaker8521]

The photo is great VLOF rest. Not the elevators are full nose up…looking fr the minimum unstick speed. Routine flight test maneuver.

[@XYZ_VIBE]

LMAOOOOO

[@BrianAchterberg928]

0:09 RyanAir: You’re hired!!

[@Napouille]

Ryanair pilots > Air France pilots Number of flights per day and safety record speak for themselves

[@yasemindemirci1343]

I'm not good at landing a plane in MSFS myself, but holy shit that pilot really ****** up

[@johnkerr1953]

Please do not use bad words on here

[@maltaconvoy]

Quality content. Thanks very much for this.

[@darknes7800]

I fly 3-4 times per month.....and love these videos !

[@guibole93]

3 MOA: “British Airways executes […] WITHOUT suffering a tail strike” Air France: And I took that personally

[@wulfboi8808]

Just when I thought that 🦀was ultra cool, the 🚁pilot did what most wouldn't even dream of attempting! Finishing up with the jet overtaking the other, 1 of your best vids ever that I've seen. 💯🧡🐺

[@valskis8877]

2:29 how did they captured the video// im eager to know that

[@reddeviluk]

We have terrible storms in the UK at the moment and more due to arrive..... Be prepared for LOTS of UK footage over the coming weeks.

[@GarrettWorcester]

You answered my question (about "What's wrong with the air in the UK?" 🤣) - thanks!👍🏼👍🏼

[@reddeviluk]

@@GarrettWorcester it's just the time of year over here, literally one storm finished on Monday and we're getting another one today (Tuesday). Roll on summer.

[@dinodinosaur3936]

​@@GarrettWorcesterIt's full of Trumps from the US coming over the Atlantic (trump is British for fart)

[@SureshKrishna5]

It all started with a book. Flight without Formula! Now I am crazy about aviation and that's what brought me here!

[@Your_Local_Nerd]

i started to get into aviation because my parents forced me to take pilot lessons over the summer, at first i wasn’t looking forward to it, but after a Southwest flight from DAL to DCA and i got to look into the cockpit, i started to be more interested in planes and here i am now

[@BK-qp8zp]

That A380 (Emirates) is a monster (but very elegant)!!

[@user-do2rv4db9k]

Best aircraft I have ever flown on by a mile.

[@bertblue9683]

This channel is as close to flying I'll ever need

[@paulkersey2179]

Cool, thanks for sharing

[@plomas]

Thanks for posting my A380 clip. Legend x

[@conquerordie230]

My confidence in Air France and their pilots has been diminishing ever since AF447

[@jazzi_0453]

They're really not good. Especially for a flag carrier airline.

[@zoondoz]

As a French citizen living abroad, I was traveling once with AF and never again... I suppose pilots are not so bad but the crew was so unpleasant.

[@JeanClaudeCOCO]

They’re always in the news every couple of weeks for some safety related incident or issue. They’re one of if not the only major world airline to suffer a catastrophic loss of lives and metal due to pilot error and negligence in the past decade or more. I flew with them recently and how they handled the flight and the relax attitudes to take off checks, 10,000 feet all the flight attendants started walking around trying to feed people when we didn’t even reach cruising altitude on a flight from DC to Paris. While in decent they really didn’t check passengers belts, remove all necessary trash and clear the cabin. I’m just use to US airlines being strict with things like that and sometimes I get peevish because they’re always checking and asking questions. I had a different experience with KLM coming back to the US and they reached cruising altitude before everyone got up and the decent prep was long and thorough.

[@user-cm2ho5jj5p]

Cool vid❤

[@terrorstalker]

Never seen someone tailstrike the WHOLE tail section at once before... damn...

[@MaxPivovarov]

Last video is not overtaking but the parallax.

[@markcardwell]

Thanks!

[@DacalLP]

np

[@Your_Local_Nerd]

no problem, happy to help.

[@em1osmurf]

380 is such a magnificent bird.

[@petrovskyt]

About the BA 747: I thought there no passenger flights with a 747 anymore. Or was this video from before the Covid pandemic?

[@tokencivilian8507]

Oh my goodness on that tail strike. I suspect the pilot flying may be getting some additional training after that one. ;-)

[@johnwkuehne6824]

Additional training ... cleaning toilets.

[@iseriver3982]

Air ambulance pilots are awesome.

[@ex48bw]

2:32 ...Or should that be an *under*-take?

[@verabolton]

Haha, that's a good one 😄 It's actually an optical illusion.

[@jordanwatt5526]

tough times for the a350😢

[@D.K.-nh1uv]

I loved the cheeky "... without suffering a tailstrike." @1:33 😂 It's amazing that Emirates has a huge number of currently operating A380s and yet they have had very few incidences.

[@williambush7971]

Back in the 70's and 80's I traveled to 59 countries, many more than once for work. We referred to Air France as Air Chance back then.

[@BinaryGamez]

Wow, after seeing the images of the tail on that A350, that was a disastrously bad landing/go around attempt. The entire rear of the plane will need to be repaired. I hope Air France will investigate how such a careless incident occurred.

[@Redridge07]

Nope, airlines are forbidden from investigating incidents.

[@westboundbadger]

They would have just shrugged their shoulder's,...@@Redridge07

[@Your_Local_Nerd]

the aircraft was damaged afterwards, the aftermath photos didnt look too crazy, but i’m not sure if it was repaired or not

[@ishanjoshi1350]

More importantly I hope none of my loved ones ever travel on the repaired version of that plane. I don't trust airplane repairs. These airline disaster channels tell me that they give way either in a year or 25

[@fluchterschoen]

Hmmm. Would an airline repair damage to an aircraft that some random internet guy thinks "didn't look too crazy"? Let's think about that for a moment shall we... Yes. I reckon they repaired it.@@Your_Local_Nerd

[@kwasisb5390]

British Airways 747 executes a late go a4ound without suffering a tail strike, yeah I see what you did there buddy😂😂😂

[@Qwertyuiop_memes10]

2:35 Kuwait 777 pilots: Ladies and gentlemen if you look to your left you will see flight 2810 challenging us to a race, fasten your seatbelts, cuz this sh-t boutta get real 😈

[@verabolton]

LOL It's actually an optical illusion. The B777 is much closer to our eyes, that's why we think it goes faster when it actually doesn't.

[@mark675]

Original..

[@Your_Local_Nerd]

i feel like i’ve seen this

[@kimiraikkonen4226]

kuwait has government paid fuel so they dont give a crap about costs and use a high CI

[@kuboss007]

Wow! In the last clip, bottom plane was bigger, but still faster than the upper plane. Amazing.

[@ChristophePilut]

This is a visual effect due to perspective and the relative distances between the planes, not necessarily due to any higher speed of Kuwait airlines' plane.

[@jjmetrejhon1743]

You should ask Macc Aviation if you can use his A380 TOGA during storm Isha - he's an amazing spotter who goes out in all weathers, and was recording during the terrible weather in Manchester when the flight in from Dubai had to go around!

[@AdrianColley]

I see Air France still haven't fired that instructor who keeps telling the pilots to hold the stick back all the way regardless of circumstances.

[@DanfromOz]

Damn i shouldnt have laughed so hard at this

[@ericpierce3660]

Rocks on the roof 2:15 just like here in New Mexico!

[@Roboseal2]

Why didn't they just punch the throttle instead of waiting like 6 seconds after executing go around. Also the Delta 767 is using the PW4000 which is getting quite old now. Plus that engine is known to be harder to inspect which might be the cause of the failure due to poor inspections.

[@jazzi_0453]

It takes a few seconds for an engine to spool up after throttle has been pushed

[@Roboseal2]

the trent XWB usually takes around 4 seconds. You can hear that they only spool up a little for 9 seconds and then go to full power. why not just go full power when you need it and not wait?@@jazzi_0453

[@OdesaMapper]

2:00 I remember , that a week ago , the rescue helicopter landed at 10-30m from our school. Our lessons were stopped for 30 minutes , because all students watched it.

[@peterwilson7532]

For all those that think the football was over the line! I present an overtake which was most likely NOT. The overtaking plane was lower, therefore closer to the viewer and parallax makes fools of most of us. 😊

[@XYZ_VIBE]

2:28 Atc giving clearance to race at cruising altitude

[@user-nm8rq6hw5x]

which camera is the overtaking footage please tell me :D

[@PapaVanTwee5]

2:03 That looks like a newer H135, not the older EC135. The black surround on the tail rotor gives it away. It is a Dutch Medical helicopter livery (ANWB).

[@redmi9834]

I was always a bit anxious about tail strikes when I worked in the Gulf States and flew on Tristars, They left the runway like a frog doing a leap with nose sharply angled up and tail down.

[@dwftube]

I wonder, did the AF A350 try to do a go around having forgotten to check his speed and increase thrust *or* (given that the landing seemed normal up to the point of the tail strike) did they forget their maximum angle and turn aerodynamic braking into aerodynamic breaking?

[@mibrahim48]

We didn't see the tail strike as promised on this video. Sick

[@jjxtwo1]

Birds chirping on the last one. 😂

[@amrchhhh]

Was that high-pitched sound from the interieur an indication of strike?

[@MeppyMan]

Sounds like it. Was pretty severe. Word is they were avoiding something on the runway, which would be one of the few times doing this wouldn’t get you fired.

[@garyclarkin2238]

As far as this video shows, it appears like a directional control issue on the landing roll, which precipitated the go-around.

[@Turbo_orca25]

Bruh the A350 is getting less safe then the 787 💀

[@Your_Local_Nerd]

both are safe

[@Turbo_orca25]

Ye I guess

[@dougadams9419]

The last one may look scary, but there is 2000' vertical separation between them. And who is filming it?

[@themanof83]

Nice little dig at our French pilots there when looking at the 747 going around... 😂

[@annonymousboi]

Rip tail of a350 💀 Also first

[@nmx1978]

AF landing makes no sense. You hear reverse thrust and then see the nose lifting at the same time when you hear the crashing sound accompanied with someone saying quite rightly “shit”… would love to know what happened in the cockpit

[@jon2026]

I did that on the ski hill one time. Hurt like hell.

[@Republic3D]

The A380 main landing gear can turn sideways for crosswind landings and takeoffs.

[@PanAmguy-np7et]

0:39 what was the website you got the photo from?

[@Your_Local_Nerd]

search up F-HYTYH tail strike on google and the first link shows the aftermath of the tail strike but i can’t find the original photo or where it’s from

[@AnimalisMD]

Yikes! That Air France landing was expensive!

[@1egrenadier]

yes

[@iclerkrun6602]

Wait a minute! The 777-300ER (03:32) seems to be diving into a landing because it grows larger (closer to the camera) while the A321 grows smaller. Optically that would look like an overtake. Clever trick Boeing people!

[@crystallineentity]

Lol that implied snarkiness, love it hahah "French Plane Tailstrike" "British Plane with NO Tailstrike" :D

[@agagnech]

It seems like A-F has more and more strange incidents... Pilot training issue?

[@munich_fan]

Hello there

[@David..]

Always wondered what they say on the PA to the passengers when they screw something up like that and have to go back to the airport.

[@mariaaparecidacaires1836]

Ooiieeee já deixei meu like pra você i

[@Al-AI]

BA 747 ?

[@markcardwell]

😊

[@christerry1773]

Does Airbus not have a pitch limit that limits the amount of pitch to…say 30ft after liftoff?

[@MrSchwabentier]

yes, but pilots can overide that by using full stick deflection. Basically a safety feature.

[@hamsterminator]

Impossible for me to judge, but I have to say that rotation looked like it was quite a low speed. Perhaps this was a Toga 15 manoeuvre due to realising they had messed up performance and then also messing up the recovery?

[@rtbrtb_dutchy4183]

Toga 15? No such thing. And the rest about performance also makes no sense.

[@lbowsk]

WTH is a Toga 15?

[@Your_Local_Nerd]

@@lbowski don’t know what the “15” stands for, but here’s what google said Definition. Take-off/Go Around (TO/GA) is an autopilot/autothrottle setting activating take-off or go-around thrust. Depending upon aircraft type, it may be activated by depressing a switch or by manually moving the thrust levers to the appropriate position.

[@rtbrtb_dutchy4183]

@@Your_Local_Nerd yeah, we know what Toga is.

[@Your_Local_Nerd]

@@rtbrtb_dutchy4183 what’s toga 15? i already know what that is but i’ve never heard of toga 15

[@ChilzSub0]

Netherlands has realy skilled choppa pilots

[@libardoceballos8283]

The Airbus on the first clip: "drop it like it's hot"

[@David-lb4te]

A350. What happened to Alpha Limit and Alpha Floor protection?

[@AdrianColley]

It turns out the alpha floor is not related to the asphalt floor.

[@ShinyFinlayPlayz]

2:18 They landed it, now they gotta take off again 🤣

[@danielhenriquedearaujo4336]

In passenger perspective its hard to notice that tail strike.

[@TheFunkybert]

This is a French Fry moment in real time

[@ronduncan9527]

If there’s a picture of the tail strike then there should be video!

[@sh230968]

Airbus was on chemtrails mode and Kuwait 777 was not.

[@pangasports1854]

Can anyone explain why one plane has exhaust showing but the lower one doesn't in the last clip.

[@RoyalMela]

One plane is higher so you get different perspective. You see further back on the higher altitude plane since it fliers further away from the camera. That is minimum of 2000 feet between planes.

[@steveshuffle]

Why did the a350 need to go around? Seemed like a stable landing to me 🤔

[@rtbrtb_dutchy4183]

Were u able to see if the runway was clear? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@MeppyMan]

My understanding was there was a runway incursion or at least the pilot believed that was the case. It only just happened so more will be known soon.

[@Your_Local_Nerd]

i’m guessing there was a plane on the runway or something, but i didn’t see anything but a report says Air France flight AF356, an Airbus A350-941, suffered a tailstrike during landing on runway 04L at Toronto-Pearson International Airport, ON (YYZ). The aircraft went around and landed normally 14 minutes later.

[@hyrrokinfamily]

They said after the 2nd attempt that they aborted the landing because they thought they were going to land too long

[@Commanderraf]

That emergency helicopter pilot can land on a dime.

[@coldlakealta4043]

skill and dedication to his mission

[@RomanJockMCO]

It's nice to see something other than cars drag race 😂

[@feifeiyang2632]

Wait a minute the b777 overtaking the other plane was in an earlier video

[@ericb9426]

I’d like to know how you can say the 747 did not have a tail strike when you’re looking out a passenger window.

[@DTAM-Aviationshorts290]

Since when did British airways still operate the 747

[@jo5hua0680]

“This British Airways 747-400 executed a late go around.. *without* suffering a tailstrike.” Air France: “And I took that personally.”

[@mtalt_schoolhouse]

7 years later...

[@johnandrews3568]

Air France pilots are Aerosucre rejects. 😂

[@PWD__]

Jan 2: Japan airlines 516😰 Jan 21: Airfrance A350 About to repeat history💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@R8andGT3Fan]

That will be an expensive repair...hope they pay attention when fixing that tail.

[@m_swizzy22]

That’s just not how you execute a go around… apparently they had issues to bring the nose down, add the thrust, and let the plane climb.. that’s disgraceful, in flight school you are taught to always add power, then manage the attitude, for a go around. I guess some people just don’t pay enough attention to the small details in their Ground school..

[@mrjl5253]

Boeing 787 , Airbus A350. Carbon Fiber airplanes that need extra care. Repairs to the airframe are costly and difficult. What’s up with AF pilots and Toronto? They lost an A340 a few years ago.

[@popowere]

The tail strike could have been devastating, the tail is vital to pilote the plane

[@nisalk]

Maybe pilot tried to lift off before the recommended take-off speed?