Pos Malaysia B732 Crash 13/01/07

Hail Ignatius of airliners.net for this intriguing photo.

No one injured. Only 4 ppl on board.

The crash happened at 1,500m at the beginning of runway 25, which is about 80 m from centre of taxiway and 87.5m from centre of runway. The plane also turned 180 degrees before coming to a stop on the grass plains of the runway strip, missing the surface of the runway.

- The Sunday Post

I'd really like a hands on tale direct from the pilot. Captain Hartono. According to photographer Delwin Atot in Airliners.net, The aircraft was operating as a mail courier for Pos Malaysia Bhd.

At first I thought it was dirty due to the crash. But:



Theres another great photo on the Sunday post. have yet to see other papers.



A disturbingly happy man.



Chinese newspaper, don't know which, I cant read.



Another angle from the Sunday post.

All pictures belong to respective news agency

Upon closer inspection of the planes structure, there seems to be a wire which seems to be supporting the vertical stabilizer (The vertical stabilizer is the yaw stabilizer for the airplane; it keeps the nose of the airplane (as seen from above) pointed into the relative wind. (reference)

Any of you flyboys know what the wire is for? Curious here.

Speaking of relative wind, I realise when in MSflight simulator, when I enable flyby mode, i see that my plane is not travelling straight into the relative wind, theres a drifting motion, skidding, if you will. How do real pilots detect this? Is it that ball thing?

More pictures of this plane (PK-RPX):



Here you can see the previous design of the plane lightly covered in white. Picture taken by Delwin Atot.



PK-RPX ready to be scrapped. I wish I could purchase that fuselage and put it in my yard.



A photo of PK-RPX in FedEx clone colors and before its design became all white. This is the design you could faintly see two photos above.