November 5, 2024

And not just any DHL freighter, this is the one hit by a SAM on approach to Baghdad: Eyeballing DHL Aircraft Hit by SAM.

Kudos to the crew for getting it down in one piece (though parked off-pavement).

via LGF

Update: from my brother, the Aerospace Genius: (the part hanging down) looks like a like a flap track, mostly because there is a bit of fairing remaining at the front.

There was a lot of heat damage too. It must have punctured a fuel tank. Repair is going to be really difficult because Airbus wing primary structures are composite. It will probably take a lap joint graft of a replacement wing assembly just to patch it up enough to ferry.

2 thoughts on “DHL airliner photos

  1. Pingback: Far From Perfect
  2. Update update: The missile strike was a lucky miss. A heat seeking missile hit would have gone straight in one of the engine exhaust nozzles.

Comments are closed.