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The Very First Boeing 747 Crash The Crash Of Lufthansa Flight 540
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Footage Credits: @mylosairplanefan • 747 Image: Airportnuernberg • Donations are never expected but appreciated: paypal.me/miniaircrash • This is the story of Lufthansa flight 540, The year is 1974 aviation fuel is cheap, the industry was booming, Just four years ago, the 747 had entered service and it had redefined aviation, on the 20th of november 1974, A Lufthansa 747-100 was to fly from nairobi jomo kenyatta international airport to Johannesburg south africa. • On the ground at niarobi the plane was fueled up with 61000 kilos or 134,000 pounds of fuel. This brought up the take off weight of the plane to about 254 tonnes or 508 thousand pounds. With this being well below the planes maximum take off weight they would be attempting a reduced thrust takeoff today. • At 4:42 am the pilots started up the engines on the 747. At 4:47 am they were requesting their taxi clearance. The controller that day gave the crew two options, runway 24 or runway 06, since they were well below their maximum takeoff weight, either runway would do. Their initial runway choice was runway 06 but runway 24 gave them a shorter path to intercept their flight path. Since they thought that the runway change was not that significant they did not recalculate the take off data. When they were on taxiway charlie the first officer selected flaps 10 and the flight engineer started reading off the take off checklist. At 4:52 am the take off clearance was given, it was a calm night and everyone expected a nominal takeoff. • The captain slightly opened up the throttles as the first officer manned the nose wheel tiller. The flight engineer set the throttles to 1.46 the correct power setting for this take off. They hit 80 knots as they raced down the runway. They hit 135 knots and they pulled the nose up, the 747s nose rose as it gained speed down the runway. At this point they were 2100 meters or 6900 feet down the runway. But as the plane lifted off it stopped accelerating, its speed started to stagnate. As the plane became airborne the whole plane began to vibrate or buffet, the captain asked the flight engineer if any of the engines were causing the vibrations. A quick scan of the gauges showed that all 4 engines were operating without issue. Thinking that the vibrations were caused by unbalanced wheels the pilots selected gear up. • The plane was not accelerating as usual, to stop the speed from bleeding off the pilots brought the nose down slightly, their 747 was in trouble. The plane clawed its way to 100 feet and with that the little upward momentum that it had ceased. The queen of the skies began a shallow descent as the plane was not able to keep itself airborne. The flight engineer confirmed that the engines were not to blame, The speed slipped below 140 knots and the control columns began to vibrate signalling an impending stall. • 1100 meters or 3600 feet from the end of the runway the tail of the plane began scraping grass on the ground. The plane flew on dragging its tail on the ground for about 114 meters or 370 feet. With that their luck ran out right in front of them was an access road that was raised by 8 feet. The tail of the plane impacted this road, which caused the tail to disintegrate. The rest of the plane continued on for 340 meters or 1100 feet. The tail section was on fire and an explosion in the left wing set the forward section on fire. The pilots and the crew members helped people out of the stricken plane as long as they could before the explosions made that impossible. Of the 157 people onboard only 98 made it off the plane.
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