THROWBACKTHISDAY, MAR 23; FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 crashes.

FedEx Express Flight 80 was a scheduled cargo flight from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in the People's Republic of China, to Narita International Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture (near Tokyo), Japan.

On March 23, 2009, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (N526FE)operating the flight crashed at 6:48 am JST (21:48 UTC, March 22), while attempting a landing on Runway 34L in gusty wind conditions. The aircraft became destabilized at flare and touchdown resulting in an unrecovered "bounced" landing with structural failure of the landing gear and airframe, and came to rest off the runway, inverted, and burning fiercely. BThe captain and first officer, the jet's only occupants, were both killed.

THROWBACKTHISDAY; makes it 7 years and TBT Blog remembers.