SkyLease Cargo Boeing 747-400F Runs Off Runway in Halifax, Sustained Damage

Atlas owns the aircraft and it was dry-leased to Skylease, not that the article makes that clear.

This article doesn’t give a whole lot of info but the winds were most certainly NOT favoring this runway ... was anywhere from 5-8 knot tailwind component, wet runway, low ceilings and mist. I’ll leave my opinions off this post but you can guess what they might be.

In this case the gear is not retracted, it collapsed

Hard to say for sure from the angle of the photo with the article, but it looks like the top line of fuselage has a discontinuity in it between the wings and the empennage.

I suspect so. The aircraft is 22 years old and the damage to the fuselage and engines is extensive. They'll probably strip some parts and scrap the rest.

Yes that poor thing will never fly again... But you bet some of her parts will.

That'll buff right out.

I can’t imagine how it would not be written off.

The inboard engines were ripped off and the outboards severely damaged. Sitting on its belly with several skin wrinkles to top it off.

A reliable source told that they salvaged the undercarriage and the rest is to be shredded over the next couple days. Hard to imagine a 747 going through a shredder !

I just assumed Halifax was the destination?

was picking up seafood then on to Japan