Tailwind again
Hello again from captain tailwind, Sweden.
I just read “Slippery Surprise” in the latest copy of Flight Safety Foundation´s excellent magazine AeroSafey World.
Sandefjord March 26, 2006. Airbus 321.
It was tailwind, very slippery runway probably causing no wheel spin up and therefore probably no deployment of spoilers and no function of auto brakes. Maximum manual breaking and even parking brakes gave no effect. Wheels were gliding on top of slush.
If it had been possible to extend spoilers manually, the load on wheels had increased giving contact with the runway surface.
Compare with the Airbus A340 at Toronto. It also was tailwind, no wheel spin up and consequently no deployment of spoilers.
Airbus is, so far as I know, the only aircraft type where spoilers not can be extended manually.
And that stupid construction causes many accidents and incidents killing people and destroying Airbuses.
Good business for Airbus. They can sell more aircraft do replace the crashed ones.
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