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FedEx plane crashes at Tokyo airport (AFP)

AFP - A FedEx cargo aircraft crash-landed in strong winds Monday morning at Japan's Narita International Airport east of Tokyo and burst into a ball of flames, police and news reports said. » Full Story on Yahoo! News

This was a really bad one.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&
client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&
hs=s8Y&ei=0uPGSZv2HIeeM5K-hJMK&resnum=0&q=fedex%
20narita&cts=1237771236558&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&ta
b=wv#

Probably
wind induced. One of the hardest landings I have ever seen, and I have seen a few.

Very bad day for aviation in general.

posted Mar 22, 2009 |
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Oh, screw it...look on YouTube for it. Narita Fed Ex.

posted Mar 22, 2009 |
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They need to experience pilot instead of those straight out of school. This is what happend when pilot salary is cut and hired less experience one to reduce the cost.

posted Mar 22, 2009 |
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The pilot and the co-pilot are americans, Man you do not know nothing about aviation, you just cannot come out of school and fly a MD-11, it takes more flying time to fly gross weight on a cargo aircraft than a passenger, Fed requires atleast 3500 hrs to fly DC-10/MD-11. I am flight simulator Tech for the MD-11. Do your home work next time

posted Mar 22, 2009 |
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None of my stuff better have been on that plane.

posted Mar 22, 2009 |
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