Originally published at: UPS 747 Strikes Engine During Landing - AVweb
The Boeing 747 had aborted two previous landing attempts before the final touchdown.
Waste of time and space to print this story. Scraping of engines on these long winged underslung engined airplanes, DC-8s another one, has been happening for years. Crew should have diverted and waited for better wind conditions. Lucky it wasn’t worse.
I don’t think this as common an accident as you might think. Sure, as jumbo jets go, it’s not the most serious kind of accident, but it’s kind a big deal for those involved and I, for one, want to hear reports like this, though it would be better if an actual reporter did some actual reporting to find additional information as opposed to just scraping articles with AI alone…
Agree, interesting to read about it, and agree more details wouldn’t harm. On the other hand, I’m wondering what are Mr Clarke’s aviation credentials, on top of watching or playing basketball.
Oh, Paul, where art thou?
Agree, less AI and less scraping.
Also please STOP citing X. That platform needs to die. The media’s support of that cesspool is the reason it still exists. Please just stop.
Agree. Hey Parris, how about watching or playing aviation? And I don’t mean sims.
Hey new editor, how about real aviation writers?
And actual stories about GA. Not just click bait and accidents.
It’s amazing how quickly Avweb disintegrated once they fired Russ.
These days journalism is: No Video - No Story.
There’s a lot more to aviation than retelling accidents reported elsewhere.
Where can I go to watch Paris watch basketball?Thanks.
Ho hum. For this kind of thing, https://avherald.com/ is now our best friend.
I presume there is an unexpected yaw with nacelle contact, which would add to pilot task.
On the B737-200, a roll on final can scrape a tip, or a nacelle, depending on height of airplane when it rolls. I know of a case of each.
Regardless of how important the story is or how many jumbo engines get scrapped, I say Kudos to the pilots fer bringing down such a massive beast in such uncontrollable winds! They deserve a nice, warm relaxing shower!
Both Paul B.s can now be found on AvBrief.org.
I thank you for that link and having now taken a look, will be shifting over from here.
Yeah. That was a non-event.
Nice, but no forum. 
Did I misread or was there not a single mention of what the actual winds were on approach and during touchdown? Does this Parris character even have a pilot certificate or know what a crosswind component is?
From all research conducted so far, Basketball is it.
However, crosswind components are sufficiently explained by AI and hence further research is wasted effort.
Seems unwise to attempt a landing in those conditions. That was a significant crab angle over the runway. That form of get-there-itis often kills. Divert to another airport and truck the packages in or wait until conditions improve to return to that airport.
Not sure, but my guess is the winds exceeded the demonstrated cross wind component for the airplane. The captain should have gone somewhere else…AND these winds did not come up suddenly, they would have been predicted.
The captain ran out of rudder long before the mains touched. Must have been some pretty important packages.