Emergency landing scenarios when the plane crashed

Let's see how to survive when the plane crashed .

Recently, a Malaysian plane was missing while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Many people are skeptical about the possibility of a catastrophic accident that happened with the plane in distress. But so far, no exact assertion has been made.

Another hypothesis is that the disconnected aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing somewhere. Let's find out what happens if that situation is true .

What is an emergency landing?

The emergency landing is the fact that the aircraft is forced to land due to an incident involving aircraft operation or emergencies requiring the shortest time.

Usually, there are 3 types of emergency landing: mandatory (when the engine is broken or about to crash), prevented (related to bad weather conditions, emergency or related to terrorism, crime .) and on the water surface (similar to forced landing, only the landing surface is water).

Flight schedule of the missing plane

The whereabouts of the Malaysian aircraft are still a big question mark

Emergency landing methods

1. Landing with belly

In fact, emergency situations are very different, thus forming many different emergency landing methods. One of the most common cases of landing is a belly-landing, which happens when the landing unit malfunctions.

Simply put, this is the direct grounding of the plane to the ground with the entire abdomen body without going through the wheel system. After landing, the plane will slide away depending on speed, causing a large friction between it and the contact surface.

The most appropriate place to carry out this emergency landing method is the flat surface area, with little friction like grass and snow. In the case of careful landing, casualties on people are almost no.

The aircraft could not open the landing gear and prepared to touch the ground with . belly.

Close up of "grinding abdomen" to the ground

However, landing by abdomen causes the most damage to the plane because when using this method, the aircraft is easily flipped over and over, catching fire due to friction leading to fire after landing.

According to industry experts, the most important factor to note when landing in this way is the wind speed, the pilot's vision; The stronger the wind blows and the lower the visibility, the greater the danger.

Snow terrain will be easy for a safe belly landing

The video below describes the successful belly landing process of a Boeing 767 in Warsaw, Poland in 2011.

2. Landing when the engine dies

In many cases, the aircraft has run out of fuel or due to technical problems that the main engine is no longer operating. That is when the plane falls into a "hovering" state and is forced to land, called dead-stick landing.

Even if the engine fails, passengers can survive if the pilot is calm enough

In this case, the plane does not fall freely as many people believe. Instead, the current design allows aircraft to surf and slide even if the engine is not working.

The aircraft will gradually lower the altitude and eventually slide long on the contact surface. Typically, a Boeing 747-200 slides away at a ratio of 15: 1, meaning it can go 150km on the ground if it starts to fall from a height of 10,000m.

If lucky, the plane will land safely

If not, that's another story

The success of this landing method depends mainly on . luck. If the aircraft is exposed to an empty space, its size is long enough to follow its sliding rate, then passengers can be safe and survive. On the contrary, if landing in rough terrain with rocky mountains, catastrophic accidents are inevitable.

3. Landing in the water

Another common situation is that the aircraft is forced to land while flying through waters such as the sea, rivers and lakes. At that time, the only option was to land on the water landing.

For private planes or seaplanes, this story will not be strange, but for civilian commercial aircraft, landing in the water is a huge problem.

Almost all civilian aircraft landing in the water will sink

Compared to the emergency landing on the ground, landing on the water eliminates the possibility of large friction causing explosion of parts. In contrast, the real danger lies in how to handle after landing by an airplane on the water, almost sooner or later will sink.

Most current aircraft are designed to adapt somewhat to this situation. Accordingly, when the aircraft meets water, the compartments are sealed to reduce the speed of water penetration into the aircraft. During that time, if the crew and the passengers calmly handle and be rescued, the human damage will not be large.

Passengers will survive if the rescue work is carried out promptly and promptly

Interim

All the hypotheses concerning the missing plane of Malaysia Airlines have just stopped in conjecture but have caused many worries and concerns for those who intend to travel by air today.

However, instead of fearing, prepare sufficient knowledge about safety measures when flying and remember that airplanes are the safest means in the world. In terms of probability, if you go on a plane every day, it takes 21,000 years before you get into an accident.