Just listened to an interview with a passenger that claimed that she flew
very often and was supprised at how high they were over the approach end of
the runway. She sounded quite intelligent and said that they landed well
down the runway, further than "normal" and hit once very hard, bounced
several times, then skidded back and forth before running off the end. She
said the rain was torrential. She said she did not think that the plane had
been hit by lightning, but after the hard initial landing the lights in the
passenger cabin went out. There was an "expert" interviewed yesterday that
mentioned something about some of the cabin electrical system having a
g-load protection device that shuts some of the passenger cabin electrical
system down if there is a large g load, presumably to limit the possibility
of fire in the cabin.

Jim

"David Lesher" wrote in message
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The only way I can describe yesterday's events at Pearson is "damn
lucky"...

That's rather unfair -- everyone involved: the cabin crew, Airbus
designers, the folks who made the slides, you name it, all contributed
to a highly successful evac in less than stellar circumstances, but
still...damn lucky.

Heard a report that by the time Rescue arrived, 52 seconds into the event,
over 50% of the 309 were clear. And not one was seriously injured.

Amazing.

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