If you hit the runway at 30 FPS (1800 FPM, easy to achieve if you're trying to correct and get behind a high performance airplane) sink rate, I don't care if the structure is new or old.
It will fail.
It was never designed for that level of stress.
Now, I have no illusions about Russian AF maintenance...but when you see an airplane gain 20 feet of altitude on the bounce, even brand new Boeings wouldn't take that kind of pounding...
A few years ago, ANA permanently damaged a 767-400 on a bounced landing which was nowhere near as bad as this TU-22 landing. It hit at about 10 FPS (600 FPM) and that airplane never flew again.
http://avherald.com/h?article=45173104
Poor approach corrections and they broke the airplane.
Throw in a much less forgiving airplane, snow-obscured runway, and pilots with far less flight time, much higher sink rate than ANA, and yeah, I'm going with pilot error...
I doubt that we will ever get a straight answer from the Russians on this one...
It will fail.
It was never designed for that level of stress.
Now, I have no illusions about Russian AF maintenance...but when you see an airplane gain 20 feet of altitude on the bounce, even brand new Boeings wouldn't take that kind of pounding...
A few years ago, ANA permanently damaged a 767-400 on a bounced landing which was nowhere near as bad as this TU-22 landing. It hit at about 10 FPS (600 FPM) and that airplane never flew again.
http://avherald.com/h?article=45173104
Poor approach corrections and they broke the airplane.
Throw in a much less forgiving airplane, snow-obscured runway, and pilots with far less flight time, much higher sink rate than ANA, and yeah, I'm going with pilot error...
I doubt that we will ever get a straight answer from the Russians on this one...
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