Turkish A320 makes an emergency landing with an engine fire.

[PaulST]

Not many details yet but it appears that a Turkish Airlines A320 has made an emergency landing with an engine fire in Instanbul. The fire was extinguished and everyone escaped safely. Not good advertising for Star Alliance, although Turkish Airlines may be happy that this particular aircraft wasn't Turkish branded (unless you look closley).
[video=youtube;kDR9iaOZHCc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDR9iaOZHCc[/video]

 

[kalboy]

It happens..
Last year there was an engine fire on a Cobham aircraft (AKA Qantaslink) out of Perth.
Good that all safe but it would be pretty scary for those involved i'm sure.

 

[mannej]

It happens..
Last year there was an engine fire on a Cobham aircraft (AKA Qantaslink) out of Perth.
Good that all safe but it would be pretty scary for those involved i'm sure.

If you are talking the BAE146 incident, it wasn't the QFlink side of Cobham.

IIRC Joe McDonald from the CFMEU also came out stating that in the interest of his workers safety, Cobham should replace and upgrade their entire fleet...

 

[Aussie_flyer]

A few too many TK accidents for my liking.

I have personally been on a flight with them where the safety demo was not done.

They're on my no fly list. AMS , KTM now this.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Just about to take 4 domestic TK flights over the next week......

Better not tell Mr FM - he is a nervous enough flyer already.

 

[get me outta here]

Most of the take off cabin protocols were missing on my TK flights. Also, the security at the airport left a bit to be desired too. Hopefully with the local terrorist problems that has all tightened up since 2013.

 

[jb747]

I think you will find that this is a more convoluted event. There is an image around showing the upper surface of the wing, in flight, with a substantial hole punched through it by the landing gear. It would seem that the engine caught fire because it had been dragged on the ground.

So, super heavy landing...or gear structural failure?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/t...y-Turkey-video-shows-blazing-sky-descent.html

The image of the wing is interesting...to say the least.

 

[Melburnian1]

jb747, if your hypothesis is correct, is this an occurrence that would lead to such an aircraft being repaired for months on end or is it likely to be simpler than that? Has there ever been a similar event in Australia involving an RPT aircraft of Q300 passenger capacity size or higher?

 

[woodborer]

The AVHerald reports a fairly significant sequence of events: Seems to come down to what happened on its first attempt to land...

A THY Turkish Airlines Airbus A320-200, registration TC-JPE performing flight TK-1878 from Milan Malpensa (Italy) to Istanbul (Turkey) with 97 passengers, landed on Istanbul Ataturk Airport's runway 05 at 10:22L (07:22Z) but rolled right just before touchdown causing the right engine and wing to contact the runway and a hard touch down. The crew initiated a go-around, then declared emergency due to an engine (V2527) inoperative. The crew subsequently reported an unsafe gear indication. The aircraft positioned for an emergency landing on runway 35L, touched down about 20 minutes after the go around, but with the right main gear collapsed the aircraft skidded on its right engine, with sparks and smoke trailing the engine, and veered right off the runway spinning nearly 180 degrees. The aircraft was evacuated via slides while emergency services started to spray the aircraft. There were no injuries, the aircraft received substantial damage to the right hand main gear, right hand engine and its pylon as well as to leading and trailing edge high lift devices at the right hand wing.

Accident: THY A320 at Istanbul on Apr 25th 2015, hard landing, go-around, engine problem, gear problem, gear collapse, runway excursion

 

[PaulST]

Another angle. Unfortunately very low res:
[video=youtube;RlEjk8TQ8fs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlEjk8TQ8fs[/video]

 

[jb747]

Really need a video of the first landing...way more interesting than the second.

A heavy landing is bad enough, but they also just happen. Nobody is immune. But, when you do it with a substantial roll input, you're well on the way to breaking something. So, why the roll? The conditions seem pretty benign. Another forum mentioned wake, but that's not really the way wake behaves. It sinks away from the flight path, and drifts downwind, so to be caught at the flare you actually need a substantial tailwind (for the wake from further out to be blown to the area).

We do seem to be having a rash of interesting landing events lately. Turkish (times 2), Air Canada, Aseana....

 

[samh004]

That photo of the wing in flight, yikes!

 

[Grimace1]

Is it me or did only a few of the oxygen masks drop down? I've have always thought that there would oxygen masks drop for each row in front of the passengers instead in one location like shown? :S

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/25/10/27F9CCA200000578-3055050-image-a-9_1429954873712.jpg

A photo released from inside the plane shows the oxygen masks deployed for the emergency landing

 

[Mattg]

A few too many TK accidents for my liking.

I have personally been on a flight with them where the safety demo was not done.

They're on my no fly list. AMS , KTM now this.

Yes, there have been a few TK incidents in the media lately but I actually consider TK quite safe personally and would be happy to fly them again. Once we know the cause of this I might reconsider this judgement but I'll wait until then.

I've never had a TK flight where they forgot to do the safety demo, though this has occurred on a number of other airlines.

Most of the take off cabin protocols were missing on my TK flights. Also, the security at the airport left a bit to be desired too. Hopefully with the local terrorist problems that has all tightened up since 2013.

This surprises me. Every time I went through IST we had to go through security twice - once to get airside and once just to enter the check-in area! I certainly wasn't concerned about them not being thorough enough.

 

[Mattg]

The AVHerald reports a fairly significant sequence of events: Seems to come down to what happened on its first attempt to land... Accident: THY A320 at Istanbul on Apr 25th 2015, hard landing, go-around, engine problem, gear problem, gear collapse, runway excursion

I'm surprised by the number of people with bags in the photos of the plane just after the evacuation..

 

[Aussie_flyer]

14 fatal crashes in their history... KTM and this one nearly make 16

 

[samh004]

Is it me or did only a few of the oxygen masks drop down? I've have always thought that there would oxygen masks drop for each row in front of the passengers instead in one location like shown? :S

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/25/10/27F9CCA200000578-3055050-image-a-9_1429954873712.jpg

That photo suggests to me that a few masks dropped in the hard (first) landing. I think had the cabin depressurised they all would have dropped.

 

[PaulST]

That photo suggests to me that a few masks dropped in the hard (first) landing. I think had the cabin depressurised they all would have dropped.

Good suggestion. From what I've heard (and in my very limited knowledge base), I don't see why any of the oxygen masks would have dropped.

 

[jb747]

Good suggestion. From what I've heard (and in my very limited knowledge base), I don't see why any of the oxygen masks would have dropped.

They doors that hold them up aren't held shut with a great deal of pressure. Even a firm (but normal) landing can drop a few. The fact that some are down is incidental....the first landing was hard, and that was where it all went wrong.