FedEx Express 910: Gear Collapse, Fire, Fuel Tank Explosion
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- Опубліковано 1 вер 2018
- PSA: The fuel tank explosion is captured on video at 2:24, and again by another camera at 6:24. The second surveillance camera video begins at 4:20.
On October 28, 2016, about 1751 eastern daylight time, FedEx Express (FedEx) flight 910, a McDonnell Douglas MD-10-10F, N370FE, experienced a left main landing gear (MLG) collapse after landing on runway 10L at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (KFLL), Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The left wing subsequently caught fire.
The airplane came to rest off the left side of the runway and the two flight crewmembers evacuated the airplane. As the flight crew was preparing to evacuate, the nearly empty left main fuel tank exploded after its exterior surfaces were heated by burning fuel, which flowed from a broken fuel supply tube in the left engine pylon.The captain reported a minor cut and abrasions from the evacuation, and the first officer was not injured. The airplane sustained substantial damage.
The first officer was the pilot flying, and the captain was the pilot monitoring. Both flight crewmembers stated in postaccident interviews that the departure from Memphis and the en-route portion of the flight were normal. About 1745, air traffic control (ATC) cleared the flight for final approach to the instrument landing system (ILS) approach to runway 10L at KFLL. Recorder data indicate that the first officer set the flaps at 35º about 1746 when the airplane was 3,000’ above ground level (AGL). The first officer disconnected the autopilot about 1749 when the airplane was 1,000’ AGL.
In postaccident interviews, the flight crewmembers reported hearing a "bang" as the first officer applied the brakes, and the airplane yawed to the left. About this time, the CVR recorded the sound of multiple thuds, consistent with the sound of a gear collapse.
About 1750:48, the captain stated, "I have the airplane," and the first officer replied, "you got the airplane." The captain applied full right rudder without effect while the first officer continued braking. About 1750:53, the captain instructed the first officer to call and inform the tower about the emergency. The No. 1 engine was initially supporting the airplane after the left MLG collapse when a fire began near the left-wing tip. The airplane eventually stopped off the left side of runway 10L, about 30º to 40º off of runway heading.
Interestingly - and atypically - the NTSB explicitly stated in its report that "The application of braking by the flight crew did not initiate or contribute to the landing gear fracture."
About 1751, the flight crew began executing the evacuation checklist. The pilots reported that, as they were about to evacuate, they heard an explosion, at which point they immediately evacuated the airplane through the right cockpit window.
Following extensive metallurgical testing and analysis, the NTSB determined the probable causes of this accident to be: "The failure of the left MLG due to fatigue cracking that initiated at a corrosion pit. The pit formed in the absence of a required protective cadmium coating, the cause of which could not be determined from available evidence. Contributing to the failure of the left MLG was the operator's overhaul limit, which exceeded that recommended by the airplane manufacturer without sufficient data and analysis to ensure crack detection before it progressed to failure."
The NTSB accident report, along with the full NTSB metallurgical report and many supporting investigatory documents can be found at tiny.cc/whereismypackage
Impressive. It took 2 minutes between aircraft stopping and suppressant being utilized on the scene. Excellent response.
too slow
both
@Jack Jones - Agreed, though it should be noted (by me, I guess) that in this instance firefighters at FLL witnessed the crash and began responding immediately.
Not an expert so... is that sarcasm?
@@maxieduardoapariciom.3181- The emergency vehicles aren't lined up along the runway with motors idling, crews at the ready. This crash and fire occurred on the runway with no advance warning.
The emergency crews have to suit up, leave their quarters, board the trucks, start up, go through a checklist, then drive to the scene. They have to go around to approach upwind.
The fire suppressant is started before arriving to ensure that it works. No matter how recently it was tested, they have to make sure that it works as the suppressant spray may very soon be all that is between the truck and the fire.
They are at ground level and don't have the view of the scene that is had from the vantage points of the monitoring cameras.
The wind can change at any moment, blowing the poisonous fumes toward the emergency response teams.
The emergency responders may have seen the explosion, which was an additional reason to approach from the side of the aircraft away from the fire.
I always hesitate to “like” a crash video, but wanted to say I really appreciate the work put into these. This is a great service you are providing for pilots and other people involved in aviation. Thank you!
You're welcome! And thank you for your comment. I appreciate it!
FEDEX 910
1 - Excellent and interesting video, thanks for posting! And, 2 - THANK YOU SO MUCH MORE for NOT adding bloody background music! The video is dramatic enough.
Thank you, and noted :)
No Moozik!! Great!!
FEDEX 910
The explosion as the left wing tank went was spectacular, as was the portion of upper wing that decided "fuck this noise" and departed.
Thats when they unassed through the cockpit window and I cant blame them a bit.
Great job by emergency units responding and containing the fire. The communication between all was excellent!
What really impresses me is the coldness and courage of these great drivers !! It is impossible to imagine the feeling and adrenaline that they spend in these moments !! Increasingly, I admire these unique aviation men and women !!
Wow, they did a really great job holding the plane on the centerline.
Ruben Kelevra _atleast_
@@killingthedeath96 they did nothing wrong. Just FedEx running cheap and fails to do maintenance. As experienced as those guys are, I highly doubted that from the beginning that they did had a hard landing.
»On August 23, 2018 the NTSB reported that "the failure of the left main gear was the result of a metal fatigue crack that initiated within the gear," and cited FedEx's failure to overhaul the gear at the manufacturer-recommended eight-year interval as a contributor to the crash.«
@@RubenKelevra it was a 9-year-manufacturer-recommended interval which FedEx decreased to 8 after the event.
How they can possibly resist dropping everything and going "Holy crap!" and "What the f-ck?!" never ceases to amaze me. The professionalism of air traffic controllers is quite breathtaking
Excellent job of compiling and producing dramatic video, audio, stills and reports and documentation. Very professional. Informative, educational and entertaining all at the same time. Not often seen this well done on UA-cam.
@Tim E. - Thank you! 👍
Great job by the flight crew keeping it on runway as long as they did.
Thank you for creating these videos. They are all around excellent and truly are "What I Haven't Seen". Keep them coming.
I once had an MD-11 first officer tell me, “You know, the ‘57 and ‘67 are okay, but too easy to land. Now THIS thing will fuckin’ kill ya.”
True statement 😀 But this was a MD-10 which is a much more forgivable aircraft.
Paul he’s absolutely right. It tried killing me every day for 7 years.
NovejSpeed3 *DC-10
The MD-11 is about the same as an early Porsche 911. It has a bad handling characteristic that can bite you in one situation, but if the driver is educated on this, it isn't a problem.
@@marajacobson9701 the MD-10 is a cockpit conversion of the DC 10. It makes it more like an MD 11 when flying
Damm fine flying by the First Officer. Not bad parking either. Well done that man.
Why don't all airports have better cameras on the runways? The average Russian has a better system in their cars (dashboard cameras).
Aside from better footage for us, what would spending millions in more cameras have accomplished? They were able to successfully determine the cause and fault.
"They were able to successfully determine the cause and fault."
Like the NTSB wouldn't want to view a half decent video of that 777 crash in San Francisco? I'm betting they would. And a $99 dashcam camera would not have cost them "millions" of dollars. Not saying that's what they should buy, but surely $2000 would get them an excellent system and I'm pretty sure that wouldn't cause them to go broke.
furyofbongos : I totally agreed with you, and have often wondered this myself. If every Home Depot can afford dozens of high-resolution cameras and a huge NVR recording system, why can't every major airport have something similar?
It's not necessarily a problem with the image quality itself, usually the problem arises from the amount of footage they need to store at any point in time. It is much easier to lower the video quality to get a few more days in the recording (I think those systems store the past 30 days on a 24/7 recording) than to buy a larger storage device
I always love watching all the little workers coming to help the mother bird.
“What’s the location of the alert 3 aircraft?”
You know controller wanted to answer “try where the f#%^*ing explosions and 300 ft towers of smoke easily seen from space are emanating from!”
Nope, It's a huge international airport with 2 runways at different sides. And if there's a code that says EXACTLY where the damaged aircraft is, and the tower can tell you, YOU ask.
but think of the comedy value
😂😂😂😂✈️💥🔥
BOOM. "There it is!" BOOM. "There it is!" ...
@@MatSil- In addition, the tower has an elevated position and can say exactly where the aircraft is, and the closest taxiway. Where as at ground level, you might at best be able to tell general direction until you get closer.
Thank you. The still photos of crash damage are especially interesting.
All of complaining about ARFF's response time, which was amazing - they had extinguishing agent on the plane in 2:00, the regs are as follows;
FAR139.319(h)(2)
(i) Within 3 minutes from the time of the alarm, at least one required aircraft rescue and firefighting vehicle must reach the midpoint of the farthest runway serving air carrier aircraft from its assigned post or reach any other specified point of comparable distance on the movement area that is available to air carriers, and begin application of extinguishing agent.
(ii) Within 4 minutes from the time of alarm, all other required vehicles must reach the point specified in paragraph (h)(2)(i) of this section from their assigned posts and begin application of an extinguishing agent.
You are mischaracterizing the statute by omitting part of the text. A response time requirement only exists in relation to airport certification testing. It has to be demonstrated during testing, under ideal conditions. There is no response time requirement for actual emergencies. Just a goal.
There is always that one know it all
It should be noted that the ATC audio has had the blank gaps removed and the conversations didn't actually take place at the point that it appears they do as we get further and further in to the video.
As one example, the conversation about opening the south runway certainly didn't come up within a few short minutes of this incident (prior to the fire even being extinguished). That was some time later after the fire trucks has already returned back to service - not while they were still extinguishing this fire on the north side of the airfield.
You're wrong about that. The runway and airport closure was done by airfield operations, and that would have happened as soon as they saw what happened and that would have been within a few seconds to a couple of minutes of the trucks rolling.
@@ImpendingJoker - I'm well aware of who initially closed the runway and you can hear them doing it over the radio. I was pointing out the fact that the conversation about re-opening the south runway (as I mentioned) wouldn't have actually occured as quickly as the audio here implies that it did. This incident occured on the north runway and it was not possible for them to re-open the south runway at a time when all of the airport's ARFF trucks were currently occupied with this incident on the north side of the field. The FAA requires ARFF trucks to be in service and available at a fire hall at a central location on the field if even half of the airport is going to be open - and at the point we hear them discussing reopening the south runway here, the fire wasn't even extinguished on the north side of the field yet.
That was the entire point of my comment. This audio is compressed and the blank gaps had been removed, but it isn't apparent until we get further and further in to the video where what we're hearing doesn't match up with what we're seeing. Toward the end of the video, there is conversation about reopening the south runway, which didn't actually occur at the point where we hear it.
The audio at the start of the video is pretty close to being in proper time. The blank gaps have been removed there as well and what we're hearing is still a bit ahead of what we're seeing, but that effect is much worse several minutes later in the video. I've edited my comment to explain in greater detail what I was explaining.
Fair enough but don't jump on me for your not being clear as to what you were referring, too. And truth be told without the official time line in front of me I can't even tell when they opened the southern runway back up.
I’m not sure how anyone could have misunderstood the original post. It was perfectly clear to me that the example to support the claim that the audio had been compressed was the conversation pertaining to the reopening of the runway. Original post never even mentioned the closing of the runway. *shrug*
Because he edited it to make it so.
Tower, my left wing has performed a secondary landing, and will unload its cargo at the green on Hole 13.
Two MINUTE response before fire trucks were on scene. IMPRESSIVE.
GREAT video! Thank you for uploading.
Instant classic.
When you send your dying grandfather a goodbye card but then it gets engulfed in flames
Barry Scott fedex? Man you were in a hurry
Good news: The fuselage of the plane wasn't pierced, so everything on board have reached the destination by now.
@@RubenKelevra with some dent i think
👍well executed presentation. Love your channel! Thanks for the effort.
Really great video summary of the events!
Time to find the collapsed main gear, ruptured fueltank, fire and explosion checklist.
FedEx ignored Boeing's recommendation for inspecting the landing gear struts for corrosion. There was supposed to be a cadmium coating to control corrosion but it was absent on this plane. It is not clear if the coating was never applied or if it was accidentally removed during a maintenance operation and never restored. So, FedEx saved a few bucks by not doing the recommended inspection and ended up writing off a valuable aircraft. FedEx NOW follows Boeing's recommendations.
I would bet my left nut that their maintenance schedule was approved by the FAA. Just because they didn't follow Boeings recommendation doesn't mean they did their maintenance improperly.
They failed to discover that the cadmium coatings were not present on the strut for 5 years and the strut became so badly corroded that the gear collapsed. If they had followed recommendations, they would have discovered the issue and avoided the failure and destruction of the aircraft and endangering the crew.
@@johnferguson7235 There is no on-wing procedure to detect this condition. Landing gear replacement is part of the maintenance schedule
If I am correct, THAT is an old DC10..NOT a Boeing Airplane/product. Maybe Boeing bought McDonald Douglas out.
It started life as a DC-10 as built by McDD. It was converted to a "MD-10" by removing the engineer's position and updating the avionics to allow for a two person flight crew by Boeing or a contractor.
Officially Boeing and McD Douglas merged. Reality = Boeing bought MCDD.
The crew was outstanding in panic control.
Panicking isn't an option.
FedEx be like "Soooo when can we get it back in the air again?"
If he turn left on purpose in the end, that was very smart cause of how wind was blowing
The crew did an excellent job saving their own asses and landing in high winds - this can be a hard plane to land. Seems pretty clear that these landing gear have maintenance issues. Always love a good outcome.
When it absolutely positively has to be there next day.
6:00 imagine sitting in this plane ready for departure and watch the plane next door to blow up like this... and then the pilots decide like 10 minutes later, well guess we take the other runway this time :D
Yep, even better one was Dynamic Airways 405, aircraft caught fire while taxiing out, had planes in front and behind.
Well that is an amazing job by the ARFF.
Its a whole lots easier to get the gear to the fire when all runways are closed. A lot of time is spent delayed at taxiways and runways until ATC can clear them to cross. When you have all flights hold position and all arrival and departures halted the responding gear can make a beeline to their destination.
Thank God the crew wasn’t run over.. that first one who jumped and the truck who came afterward had my heart beating...
After the Narita accident, didn’t Japan say they would disallow FedEx from operating in or out of Japan after another MD-11 incident? I see them there all the time.
Report says the RIGHT main collapsed with a fire on the right side of the aircraft and the aircraft went off the right side of the runway, but everything was LEFT in the video. What's up with that?
So excellent, thanks!!
Just think of the people in that United A320 at 5:00 ; "yeah, uh, I think I'll get Greyhound..."
Man these DC-10s are getting rarer on airports world wide
from how high did they fall? looks pretty high up.
edit: nwm they used a rescue rope to get themselves down.
I was there and watched the entire incident. Remember saying “wait the engine shouldn’t be like that” A very long weekend.
I was debating going to take pictures of aircraft that day, but didnt see anything interesting on Flight Aware that day, so decided not to. Guess I should Have. Missed the Dynamic Airways Flight 405 a year earlier too.
4:41 I wonder the reaction of the Pilots of the Delta pushing back.
Ladies and gentlemen...we are expecting some delays to your right....
Excellent video
I was watching & yelling "Get out, GET OUT" then the explosion! 😖 Then I see the crew climbing down the escape ladder! 😃!! YES!!
Nicely reported!, thank you!.
Crew exit begins at 3:04.
Can someone time stamp the point when the pilots exited?
DC-10: A real Murphy's Law airplane--What can go wrong, will!
737 Max left the chat.
L-1011 is where it's at!
What's the location of that aircraft?
See that huge plume of smoke? It's there.
Looked like one of the ARFF vehicles sez, the hell with it, and drives right over the grass at about 6;40 or so.
Very good video 👍 Detailed explanation
8:21 another ruptured fuel storage area with zero sign of fire damage. So what exactly was it that was fueling all these flames and explosion?
What you see at that time stamp is not the fuel tank. the fuel tanks are forward of the landing gears only. behind the rear spar is the wheel well, a lot of cables going to the ailerons and spoilers and wires to the fuel pumps, sensors and actuators. at 8:49 you can see a schematic of the wing. there is no fuel stored aft of the rear spar
I am just wondering if not being able to see my wings would cause me some frustration or anxiety.
How many of you noticed that it was actually the LEFT main gear that collapsed, not the right?
I am curious did this fire have any effect on the highway or any of the two railroads surrounding the airport?
No. It was nowhere even remotely close to any of them.
Matt Coleman ok thanks
Only impacted airport operations, the highway and rail lines were unaffected.
sparkplug1018 ok good
jumping out the cockpit window - is that really the best or only option to evacuate their plane?
In this case it probably was. It was a fairly windy day, and there was a risk the slide would be blown under the aircraft. So they used the next best option.
Ramp 3 sounds like "Overlord"; the US Army Ranger callout voice in the call of duty franchise
I'm surprised I never saw this before
So that explains why my package didn't arrive on time...
Yea me to
Did they repair the airplane or whas it the last flight with it? Great resopnse of the fireman.
It was parked on the north side of the field (near the other end of the runway, right of camera perspective) next to a burnt out Dynamic 767 (Dynamic Airways flight 405, caught fire on a taxi way a year earlier). Both planes were scrapped on site about a year ago. Interestingly, the 2 good engines from the FedEx are still sitting next to the hanger used by UPS wrapped in plastic.
The Dynamic airway fire was something as well. Just left work when it happened
I dont know why they don't put hi res survellance cameras on the tower to capture tese incidents better.
Anyone else thinking, "WTH, FedEx! At least you didn't bounce and flip over this time."
Why did they paint over the Fed Ex sign on the ground? Bad PR?
n the DC-10 all series that collapse is common here in MEXICO to the dc-10s aeromexico so it happened several times from 1973-1982 also in the A-340all series it is usual that your train is not saved
No slideraft?
What is the evacuation checklist? "Get the f*ck out of here?" "Check".
Correct me if I’m wrong but that’s not the right side that’s the left and it veered off towards the left side of the runway
Correct, that is the left side of runway 10L. Though technically its the right side of runway 28R
i like how the atc minds their own business for like 10 seconds
Multiple things happening at once there.
DC-10 MD-11 Newark, Tokyo, Singapore, On n on n on keeping CFR units current.
bank angle, bank angle, bank angle
Boy those controllers handled it like it happens daily.
Great work by all.
DC-10 back at it again
How to go from a near text book approach and landing to shitting your pants just as you apply the wheel brakes. Nicely handled by all.
I load planes at the world hub in Memphis and I saw a plane spark up the other night I was glad nothing bad happened
I wonder how far off the ground their jump from the window was. I'm glad it turned out ok for them. I thought there'd be more crew members though. Navigator or flight engineer for example.
Some of these cargo planes appear to fly with just the cockpit crew and with no-one in the back to monitor the cargo and to be ready when the fire starts (or what-have-you).
They didn’t jump from the window...
A lot of DC-10 aircraft were refitted to eliminate the flight engineer, there are some seats in the back (the first 2 rows I think) but they're only used if an employ needs to hitch a ride.
this is why my playboy mag didnt come
We had a KC10 burn on the ground at Barksdale. What a mess.
When?
This video would have been 5 times better if the uploader would have taken 10 minutes to bother with subtitles. 😢
Great video.
Is it just me or does the voice track not synch with the video?
real damn lucky the entire dc-10 did not blow up!! good fast rescue moves alaround
Surprised the pilots didn't bail ages ago, but I guess they probably had to do some stuff first before they could leave o-o crazy stuff.. can't imagine seeing that happen in front of ya.
2:26 now that's a holy shit moment!
Evacuation checklist? I'd be bailing out as fast as I could, maybe check my undershorts after I got clear of the wreckage.
I wonder if Steveo will have some content on that matter.
When did he start providing any content about commercial crashes and incidents? This was almost two years ago and he hasn't brought it up...so why would he now?
@@mattcoleman7738 Oh I did not know this was that old. I just noticed that is was at an airport he often flies to.
Yeah in that case disregard my comment.
from 9:00 to 9:14 inside of the wing where it would have been at least wet from fuel storage remains uncharred
have you seen that fire? all the fuel that didn't burn would have been evaporated due to the heat. if there was any liquid visible in those images it would be water from the fire fighters
I’m not a pilot but I can tell that by looking at the landing gear’s condition you can see that the tires are ripped and that can only mean that the plane’s landing gear broke off because of the overload.
They ripped due to being pinched under the wing after separation. They weren't overloaded, if you read the whole reports you'd know that a cadmium plating was supposed to be done around the air-fill valve during maintenance on the gear but was not, resulting in corrosion and a hairline fracture that weakened the gear to point that when brakes were applied it simply couldn't handle the forces and completely let go
That's some scary atuff.
I live near this airport, it was definitely concerning as I saw this aircraft fly over my house before this accident. And a year before another aircraft a 767 caught fire on the taxiway.
Also the airport Delta 191 left from, before it crashed near Dallas.
Can we real quick take a minute and appreciate the pilot that saved our packages in a PLANE CRASH
*_Amazing!_* 😬
Nickle plate cause of failure does not make sense. I am sure the part was made out of 300M which if ground incorrectly can cause burns which should of been pick up through the nital etch process. The burns can cause stress issues resulting in failure. The other possibility would of been inclusions and cracks that were not picked up during NDT, mag particle inspection.
Impressive!
The good folks at the National Transportation Safety Board wish to remind to rotate your tyres and check your suspension for wear and damage on your automobile, lorry, motorcoach, motorbike, aeroplane, and jet.
Those are some damn good tires!
Boy, lots of concern about debris but virtually _nothing_ on the crew. Nothing. Amazing.
the one good thing that it was a fed ex plane is there aren't like 86 people on the plane only 2 I think
There Goes the strobes and beacon
Il y avait un passager clandestin dans la trappe du train d atterissage?😳