Incident involving VQ-BNP at EHAM 01-04-2012?

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Incident involving VQ-BNP at EHAM 01-04-2012?

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Maybe somebody has an answer to this? today i was making pictures at 36R, when suddenly this visitor for Schiphol East came in. While i was shooting i heard this plane making a very strange noise. When i was checking my pictures i suddenly saw that this plane has it´s RAM air turbine deployed. Might this be a check or test if it still works properly, or do they only deploy this when there is a serious issue? As far as my knowledge goes, this will only be deployed with engine fall out, or hydraulic preasure loss, but i might be totally wrong of course.....check the nose on the left side. you can clearly see the turbine. If any one has an answer, please let me know........since i have not seen any fire trucks along the runway, i guess this would have been a test run....

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Re: Incident involving VQ-BNP at EHAM 01-04-2012?

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First of all, the nose on the left side is perfectly clean. The RAM is clearly vivsible on the right side though............... Was this a testflight? If so, it's perfectly possible that they had to test some electrical systems on board which causes the RAM to deploy, so nothing wrong, but maybe the turbine was needed to land safely...........

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Re: Incident involving VQ-BNP at EHAM 01-04-2012?

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Rob van R wrote:First of all, the nose on the left side is perfectly clean. The RAM is clearly vivsible on the right side though............... Was this a testflight? If so, it's perfectly possible that they had to test some electrical systems on board which causes the RAM to deploy, so nothing wrong, but maybe the turbine was needed to land safely...........

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Left side from my point of view of course, don´t make such a fuzz about it. But thanks anyways.....
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Re: Incident involving VQ-BNP at EHAM 01-04-2012?

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Looks like a test to me....
why? well all the gear doors are closed and all the lights are on and all the flaps are extended....
normal with the rat gives a limited amouth of electricity and hydrolic power.
in case of an emergency you normal see the gear doors down as the use the limited hydro for steering and a little flaps.
and why ,in case of RAT use they should waste electricity on landinglight in bright daylight...

these are my thoughts....

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I think it's a test flight for Bombardier at Schiphol east.. Next question is then, were the emergency teams deployed?
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Re: Incident involving VQ-BNP at EHAM 01-04-2012?

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Hi Nozem......sounds pretty ubvious to me. As i can recall at least one engine was operational.....so indeed a test run were my thoughts too. Your explenation makes a lot of sense.

@ Bjorn: I was standing at the very top of runway 36R (along the water), so i was pretty able to check the runway for most of the part and i didn´t see any emergency teams being activated....
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