the broken um localized antenna and the perimeter wall and the close to that they have identified pieces of aircraft skin and honeycomb material and this representative from the pieces that are left behind can actually say with quite good confidence that yes these pieces comes from our aircraft so there's now no doubt that this has happened the company now calls the pilots up via hf frequency and tell them that they want them to please divert towards mumbai the problem here is that the aircraft is now much closer to the destination dubai than mumbai and the diversion back towards mumbai will actually use more track miles so the pilots have to calculate whether or not they have enough fuel initially they think they don't but then they they look at it and they see that if they get a direct routing towards mumbai they can do it so they accept that direct routing and they start their flight towards mumbai as the aircraft is approaching mumbai the captain who's still pilot flying starts to configure the aircraft early to make sure that all of the flaps gear and all of the associated systems are working correctly he also asks air traffic control to please have the local firefighting equipment and emergency equipment on standby just as a precaution at time NUMBER_TOKEN the aircraft touches down safely in mumbai but do you want to know what the engineers found after the aircraft had parked on stand well if you just wait until after this short message from my sponsor i'll tell you all about it a special thank you to the sponsor of this episode which is skillshare now i know that you are watching this because you are a curious person a lifelong learner someone who constantly wants to improve and understand the world around you better and in that case skillshare is definitely something that you should be checking out okay they have thousands of high quality video courses and pretty much anything that you can imagine a course that i'm using myself at the moment is five minutes creativity with jasmine cheyenne where she gives kind of hands-on tips on how to chisel out a few minutes to be creative every single day and it's something that i personally really need but there are also courses in you know storytelling creative photography or even how to use your own home simulator to improve and prepare before you start your private pilot license so if you think peter that sounds amazing well then the NUMBER_TOKEN first of you guys who clicks on this link here below will get one month of premium skillshare absolutely for free so click the link and start exploring your curiosity today as soon as they arrived the stat it became immediately apparent that the aircraft was severely damaged turned out that the tail strike had been so severe that it actually ripped up a big hole just aft of the main wheel well the first indication of the damage that the engineers could see as it approached down was that the lower and the collision light had been completely ripped off probably by the localizer antenna on top of that the vhfNUMBER_TOKEN antenna was gone there was some severe damage to the aft left horizontal stabilizer but also to the cowling of the number two engine the right hand landing gear one of the tires on the right-hand side but also on the flaps and there was also several dents just aft of the main hall in the uh aircraft structure but what was the chain of events that led up not only to the tail strike but also to the crew's decision to continue their flight towards dubai well as the aircraft investigation team came to the site in trichy they went out to the runway and safety area the reesa
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