Thai Airways Boeing 777 in emergency landing in Dhaka

By The Thaiger

 

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A Thai Airways plane has made an emergency landing at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA). The Boeing 777 is reported to have veered off the runway during landing but was steered back onto the runway by the pilots. The plane had burst six tyres according to newsinflight.com.

 

TG321 landed around 12.18pm with 145 passengers – all unhurt, SN Wahidur Rahman, deputy director of Special Air Traffic Control, told The Daily Star. He said, the Dhaka-bound flight coming in from Bangkok informed the traffic control tower of the burst wheel moments before landing (according to the Daily Star).

 

Last reported, all the passengers were safely evacuated from the plane and the runway was kept shut for three hours, causing delay in take-off and landing of some planes.

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/regional/thai-airways-boeing-777-in-emergency-landing-in-dhaka

 

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With six tyres bust luckily the outcome was not worse....

4 minutes ago, petermik said:

With six tyres bust luckily the outcome was not worse....

Down to the skill of the Thai Captain and his crew. Don't suppose anyone here will acknowledge that though.

Kudos to the pilots.

Six tyres burst before landing? Some screw up back in BKK, or just mai pen rai?

Not from me landing hard khrap, the tyres were like that already.....jing jing!

Edited July 25, 20187 yr by SkyNets

It doesn't say when the tyres burst. Was it on take off or landing ?

 

Should be good to go again in a couple of hours. According to google maps, this shop is very near Dhaka airport.

 

 

 

Burst upon landing and exited stage right before coming back onto the runway it seems in heavy rain.

 

AVHERALD

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one, although landing in Dhaka is only a step up from a crash landing.

And not a can of black paint in sight!

 

30 minutes ago, tolsti said:

Burst upon landing and exited stage right before coming back onto the runway it seems in heavy rain.

 

AVHERALD

Would have been surprising if the tires burst while in the air and how could the pilot know?

"Emergency landing" is a misleading headline as it implies there was an emergency before landing.

It was planned to land in Dhaka and so it happened.

Different reason possible, but might well have a been a faulty/damaged strip, debris.

Or an exceptionally hard touchdown triggered by the rain?

It's standard practice to bring them down "hard" if the runway is wet/slippery.

Edited July 25, 20187 yr by KhunBENQ

1 hour ago, webfact said:

informed the traffic control tower of the burst wheel moments before landing (according to the Daily Star).

Implausible. Get a better translator.

Obviously this did not happen today - but no mention of when it did.  Reporting at it worst.☹️

20 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

Obviously this did not happen today - but no mention of when it did.  Reporting at it worst.☹️

Jul 24th 2018

12:18L (06:18Z)

 

06:18Z = 13:18 Thai local time (ICT).

 

From AVHERALD, see post #8.

 

Bad reporting of thaiger : yes. Missing the date.

Edited July 25, 20187 yr by KhunBENQ

1 hour ago, tolsti said:

Burst upon landing and exited stage right before coming back onto the runway it seems in heavy rain.

 

AVHERALD

informed the traffic control tower of the burst wheel moments before landing

1 hour ago, Elfin said:

And not a can of black paint in sight!

 

It's being shipped in on the next flight !

2 hours ago, Elfin said:

And not a can of black paint in sight!

 

Hopefully Thai Airways have replaced the idiot Bus Company Managers they had with some common sense since the Swampy incident!

 

AND. Most B777's have tyre pressure monitoring.

2 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one, although landing in Dhaka is only a step up from a crash landing.

This quote was a fair description in the 1920s but is a stupid quote today.

3 hours ago, Just Weird said:

Down to the skill of the Thai Captain and his crew. Don't suppose anyone here will acknowledge that though.

So why did he need to use that supposed 'skill' , landed in conditions beyond his skill set is my assumption.  

3 hours ago, arithai12 said:

Kudos to the pilots.

Six tyres burst before landing? Some screw up back in BKK, or just mai pen rai?

Something isn't right. If they knew 6 were burst they were obliged to give notice much earlier.

1 hour ago, car720 said:

So at what point did the pilot know that they had a burst tire?  I have not heard of a warning light after gear down to say that a tire has burst but I could well be wrong.

he would know at any time.  The tyre monitoring system on the 777 is accurate enough that he would have know the condition before landing.  Had he known, he would have informed the passengers and had them prepared, he didn't,  so I guess that they burst on landing.  My guess, based in this very limited reporting  evidence, is that the tyres burst on landing, due possibly to a heavy landing in wet and windy conditions. 

2 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Would have been surprising if the tires burst while in the air and how could the pilot know?

"Emergency landing" is a misleading headline as it implies there was an emergency before landing.

It was planned to land in Dhaka and so it happened.

Different reason possible, but might well have a been a faulty/damaged strip, debris.

Or an exceptionally hard touchdown triggered by the rain?

It's standard practice to bring them down "hard" if the runway is wet/slippery.

The standard procedure for an emergency landing is to dump fuel to have the proper weight for the correct landing or the tires are in danger of bursting and among other reasons .Sounds like he had a blown tire on take off (could have been informed via the departing airport) and further the possibility of tire burst by not dumping fuel .Don't know why he reported an emergency other then a blown tire upon take off .The site "Flight Aware" will have the particulars in about 10 days.

TG321 is the scheduled flight to Dhaka, so the description emergency landing is not correct.

It rather sounds like the routine scheduled landing was in appalling conditions and the plane ran off the left side of the runway and burst the tyres on something sharp on this deviation, the pilots might have misjudged the runway centreline due to poor visibility during the approach?

In any case, the passengers and crew had a lucky escape.

Edited July 25, 20187 yr by Mattd

@Mattd:- Good post. Lets not leave it to all these "arm chair" pilots and leave it to the experts to do their jobs!

According to the statement on the Thai Airways official Facebook page, the tyres burst, "while landing on the runway."

If you have burst tyres before landing would you not tell the airport as early as possible to allow them time to assemble emergency teams? Was the Daily Star accurate?

3 minutes ago, AdamTheFarang said:

If you have burst tyres before landing would you not tell the airport as early as possible to allow them time to assemble emergency teams? Was the Daily Star accurate?

Not according to the official statement from Thai Airways that I just quoted.

4 hours ago, jaiyen said:

It doesn't say when the tyres burst. Was it on take off or landing ?

 

Well if you veer off the run way naturally you're gonna take out a bit of rubber.