Incident: Airbus A330 at Taipei, primary computers failed on touchdown (2020)

Re:Incident: Airbus A330 at Taipei, primary computers failed... by dmurray on Sunday September 05, 2021 @07:45PM (#28428845)

According to the first comment on TFA, it's in a built up area. I checked Google maps [0] and it's pretty bad: 50m of tarmac (no EMAS I think), 50m of grass, then a minor road with commercial buildings.

Regardless, that's one to be considered another aggravating circumstance, not an additional failure. When deciding whether this was a close call, you can treat it as if every runway is wet and in a permanent tailwind and immediately followed by a wooden building full of schoolchildren.

[0] https://maps.app.goo.gl/u4eFmqDAysMVbbWC8

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Re:Incident: Airbus A330 at Taipei, primary computers failed... by AnimalMuppet on Sunday September 05, 2021 @08:19PM (#28429048)

Oh, absolutely. You treat it as if there is no margin.

And you don't put wooden buildings full of schoolchildren immediately past the end of runways.

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Re:Incident: Airbus A330 at Taipei, primary computers failed... by account42 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @04:49AM (#28442501)

Unless I am mistaken, runway 10 is west to east so it would have gone through the parking lot and then into the river. That also the direction I remember most planes landing there.

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