According to the emergency services, the aeroplane has been totalled from the
hard landing and cannot be restored.
The term
hard landing usually implies that the pilot still has total or partial control over the aircraft, as opposed to an uncontrolled descent into a terrain (a crash).
That means the engine mount would absorb the initial damage in a
hard landing, but it could also damage the firewall and engine mount if the impact were hard enough.
Linden Police said the helicopter made a
hard landing at 2700 Marshes Dock Road and there were no injuries reported after the incident. (http://pix11.com/2018/04/20/helicopter-makes-emergency-landing-in-nj/) Reports state that two pilots were onboard the chopper at the time.
"Fourteen passengers were injured because of the
hard landing, including one with serious injury" the report said, adding that all the injured passengers were hospitalised.
Russia news agency (Interfax) quoted security sources as saying the chopper made a
hard landing earlier in a forested area on the border of the Ivanovo and Vladimir regions while making a forest inspection flight.
The closely-watched CIPS/Markit purchasing managers' index (PMI) said the 12-month outlook for the services sector had plummeted, as firms feared a "
hard landing" in China and the possibility of Britain leaving the European Union.
Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, said: "Worries about a Chinese '
hard landing',' higher interest rates in the US, more austerity at home and EU tensions have collectively pushed the business mood in the dominant service sector to its darkest for three years."
It's clear that growth in the services sector can have only a limited positive effect on the drop in exports, but it can at least prevent a
hard landing. This means that China's downturn will have manageable consequences for Germany as well.
A Marine Corps Osprey aircraft caught fire after crashing during a "
hard landing" in Hawaii on Sunday, killing one Marine and sending 21 other people to hospitals.
China's latest stimulus measures seem to have been enough to avoid a
hard landing. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), real GDP growth slowed to 7.3 percent in Q3, 2014, which is broadly in line with QNB projections of 7.5 percent for 2014.
military says one of its surveillance drones made what the military labeled a "
hard landing" at an airport in Niger, AP reported.
