UNITED AIRLINES 767 EMERGENCY IN ZURICH!!! - tailstrike or not?

An incident of an United B767-300. In the video I wrote that it was because of engine problems but maybe it suffered a tail strike when you look closely at 00:45. Please comment if you see a tail strike or not.

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• Zurich
• Kloten
• runway
• 16
• Emergency
• United
• airlines
• Boeing
• 767
• zürich
• airport
• flughafen
• usa
• tail
• strike
• tailstrike
• zurich
• kloten
• plane
• spotting
• planespotting

[flyguy281]

How do you get damage on the left engine due to a tailstrike?

[RemiAviation]

Well, the information I put in this video isn't very sure. After its landing someone told me that he heard of an engine problem. But I saw the tail strike after editing the video and posting it to FL350.

[Arkham1888]

This is a tailstrike due to a suddenly reduced or stoped power in the left engine due to a failure (No smoke behind engine in 1:15). In the takeoff there are three speeds V1, Vr and V2. Once the V1 is exceeded they can not reject the take off, it is not allowed to abort the takeoff after V1. Due to the descent of power on having come to Vr (Speed of Rotation) and having rotated with minor power and as usually the pilot use to do that produces a tailstrike clearly visible at 0:43 (red smoke).

[MountainDelight]

I doubt it was a tail strike that caused the emergency landing; the 767-300 (and the 777) have a tailskid under the horizontal stabilizer, and it prevents serious damage if I pilot pulls back to quickly. Also, pilots are trained extensively to ensure good clearance during takeoff, and they calculate the appropriate rotation speed based on the load and conditions.

[1996zeeshan]

ur right, if a plane has been lying old fuel can become stale and clog filters and pumps, then when viscous fuel is trying to ove through pumps it ca even tear and breach seals and leak

[1996zeeshan]

looks like a tial strike from 45 and the small bit of ed smoke at 42 confirms it

[TLVspotter]

Well it clearly is a tailstrike, you can define it as one, but all that happened was the tail skid rubbing against the concrete runway, of course the plane landed for a mandatory inspection...

[210482fmj]

has any airline ever been known to continue with a flight after a tail strike on take off rather than circle to land.

[m8nproductions]

well you can both hear it and see it, DEFENATELY TAILSTRIKE!

[couniamanmanw]

@RemiAviation no tailstrike, it almost hits the floor but it didn't...

[djtoro54]

it'a tail srike hear carefouly at 0:45

[MrChrislionheart]

but i guess the engine failure occured during take off and so respondet a tail strike, the ground staff is just checking the engine and tail and get their goflight:)

It can happend that the thrust in an engine is not full available for some reason without damage. In these cases the fuel is sometimes beeing checked and the aircrafts pumps and filters and tanks. Its good that nothing happend tho anyone:)

[MrChrislionheart]

I think you are right, you can even hear a noise like a tailstrike and see the sparks, may be it was just a fault in the report or they didnt want to get a negative remark , engine fault is no human error:)

[ROBSHOTZ]

could have sucked in some FOD into engine