Video shows Brazil jet was too fast

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Source: Al Jazeera

Brazilians are demanding answers after the country's worst-ever air crash killed at least 189 people as new video footage showed the TAM airliner barrelling down the runway after touching down at four times the normal speed.
The justice ministry has ordered an investigation to establish whether the runway met technical and legal security standards as the search goes on for charred remains still to be recovered from the site.

But a security video released by the air force on Thursday showed the TAM Flight 3054 speeding down the tarmac more than four times faster than other jets landing around the same time, raising the possibility of pilot or mechanical error instead of a slick and short runway blamed widely as a likely cause.

Brigadier Jose Carlos Pereira, president of the national airport authority Infraero, said on Thursday that he was perplexed by the video and that an analysis of the black box soon may explain why the jet went so fast after touching down.


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I saw the images of the relatives on the BBC news yesterday.
Pure human desperation.

[Canuckistanian]

1. Landing too fast on a wet, short, unfinished runway

That would do it.

But four times faster? Landing speed should be between 140-280mph.

Are they saying that the aircraft was trying to land at 560mph???

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2. I'm too a bit perplexed

[PSPS]

3. My brother's been flying there a lot. He says the runway has no grooves to drain off water.

I can see a grooveless runway contributing to hydroplaning, but this sounds like it's more speed related since it didn't veer off the runway.

[wakeme2008]

4. What's the big deal, the Pilot was trying to get UP and not stopped

:shrug:

[MissB]

5. That is what I heard too - that he was trying to abort the landing.

In which case, the speed would be increased.

[Parche]

6. A-320

It was an Airbus A-320 for gawds sake, maybe the pilot was stroking the....stick in the cockpit...