Talk:Lufthansa Cargo Flight 8460

German links
If/when this becomes available in German... They need to be posted to the German article WhisperToMe (talk) 05:31, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * "MD 11 in Riad verunglückt, 16:15 LT F."
 * "MD 11 in Riad verunglückt, 14 Uhr LT."
 * "Lufthansa Cargo-Flugzeug in Riad verunglückt"

New evidence contradicts reports of in-flight fire
Quote from Aviation Herald :

Lufthansa Cargo said on Jul 30th, that they have no indication of an inflight fire.

GACA's head of the aviation safety department Abel Rahman Bukhari said on Jul 31st, that preliminary investigation results suggest, that there was no inflight fire prior to touch down. The undercarriage of the aircraft was severly damaged in the landing causing the airplane to veer off the runway. The impact caused the fire on board.

The NTSB reported on Jul 31st, that the aircraft "reportedly caught fire after a hard landing at the King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia". --Mareklug talk 14:38, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Report released
If anyone is following this and has the time to update the article, the accident report has now been published at http://www.bfu-web.de/cln_030/nn_223936/EN/Publications/Investigation_20Report/2010/Report__10__2X003__MD11__Riyadh,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf/Report_10_2X003_MD11_Riyadh.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.77.209.250 (talk) 17:59, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Rewrote with final report, METAR
I rewrote most of the content citing the final report (also the Aviation Safety Net summary). I removed media speculation about an onboard fire before the crash. The final report does not mention that at all - the crew *did* declare an emergency, but only *after* bouncing the plane. I also added some reference to other incidents/accidents with bouncing MD-11s on landing.

I also removed the METAR code - it didn't offer much explanation for the average reader, even in it's "decoded" form. I just state that weather conditions were good. Whoever wants the exact METAR conditions can easily find them in the cited material. Averell (talk) 09:42, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

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