This was not the proper way to repair the damage from the tailstrike.

A tailstrike is when the tail of an airplane hits the runway.

This was not the first time that a plane had crashed because of a faulty repair following a tailstrike.

During takeoff, a tailstrike can happen if the pilot raises the nose too early and the plane cannot take off in time.

An inspection there confirmed the tailstrike, though analysis of the strike indicator showed the plane was still safe.

A doubler plate was placed over the scratches that the tailstrike caused.

This aircraft suffered a tailstrike moments before the actual Tenerife airport disaster.

The final investigation report found that the accident was the result of metal fatigue caused by inadequate maintenance after an earlier tailstrike incident.

If too much rotation is added for takeoff, the airplane can face a tailstrike, or, in the worst case, will stall and crash.

Finally, investigators managed to find a piece of wreckage which was damaged in the tailstrike incident in 1980.

The aircraft involved in the crash had suffered a tailstrike while landing in Cairo fourteen years earlier.

During a landing, a tailstrike can happen if the pilot raises the nose too high during landing.

The cause was improper repair after a tailstrike incident in Hong Kong in 1980.

The explosive decompression was caused by a faulty repair performed after a tailstrike incident during a landing seven years earlier.

In aviation, a tailstrike is an event in which the rear empennage of an aircraft strikes the runway.

After being informed of the tailstrike, the crew continued the flight to the Cape Verde Islands.

Improper repairs after a tailstrike that resulted in catastrophic structural failure in a later flight:

Then in November 1994, the aircraft was involved in a tailstrike at Anchorage International Airport.

Inspection on arrival revealed that a tailstrike had indeed occurred, although the tailstrike indicator was within limits.

When investigators removed the doubler that was installed over Item 640, they found out that the scratches, caused by the tailstrike 22 years ago, were still there.

That crash had been attributed to a faulty repair to the rear pressure bulkhead, which had been damaged in 1978 in a tailstrike incident.

A tailstrike is physically possible only on an aircraft with tricycle landing gear; with a taildragger configuration, the tail is already on the ground.

Some have drawn comparisons to Japan Airlines Flight 123, which crashed into a mountain in 1985, seven years after the aircraft had suffered a tailstrike while landing.

On 16 November 2001, while operating for Middle East Airlines as F-OHMP, the aircraft suffered a tailstrike landing in Cairo.

The aircraft was involved in a tailstrike incident at Osaka International Airport seven years earlier as JAL Flight 115, which damaged the aircraft's rear pressure bulkhead.

They attacked only at close range using tail strikes and with claws.

There was also a tail strike at this time.

A tail strike was followed by a hard landing on the starboard main gear.

In addition, the landing gear design changed to a slightly swept back design intended to prevent tail strikes.

A Brisbane Airport spokeswoman confirmed a tail strike had occurred this afternoon.

A spokeswoman for Qantas said that all passengers were transferred on to other flights following the "very minor tail strike."

There have been a number of tail strikes involving DHC-8-400 aircraft around the world, some resulting in significant damage.

This may trick the resident spider into investigating the disturbance and so instead of gaining a meal, it becomes one when the white tail strikes.

Investigators later attributed the bulkhead rupture to incorrectly repaired damage from a tail strike seven years earlier.

"An unstabilized approach appears in one form or another in virtually every landing tail strike event," according to the company's advice to pilots.

Reduced overall aircraft length for a given passenger or cargo capacity, improving ground maneuverability and reducing the risk of tail strikes.

Plane returns after 'tail strike'

Tail Strike Scorpion (resembling his modern appearances)

Troubridge, his copilot, and his com tech died instantly, and the impact energy completed what the tail strike had begun.

The air cart was already connected and forced the first officer to walk around the cart and away from the aircraft, missing the tail strike damages.

A TAIL strike at Brisbane airport yesterday was the first of its kind in Australia.

The tail strike occurred because the rotation speed had been mistakenly calculated for an aircraft weighing 100 tonnes less than the actual weight of the aircraft.

"They (the crew) advised air traffic control of a possible tail strike (impact with the runway), and a runway inspection confirmed that was the case," the report said.

This occurrence is the first tail strike involving the DHC-8-400 aircraft type in Australia," the ATSB report said.

However, the permanent repair of the tail strike was not carried out in accordance with the Boeing Structural Repair Manual (SRM).

When interviewed, the captain first denied having been involve in a hard landing and speculated that the tail strike must have been the result of an over rotation on takeoff from the morning crew.

John Goglia of the National Transportation Safety Board, who is overseeing the crash investigation, said there was no evidence to suggest that MD-11's were more prone to tail strikes than other aircraft.

MALÉV Airlines Flight 906, operated by Boeing 737-800 HA-LOC, from Budapest to Heraklion International Airport, suffered a tail strike during landing.

Boeing, for example, lists unstabilized approaches as a leading cause of tail strikes, in which a plane lands with its nose too high, so that not only do the wheels hit the runway, but the tail also does.

Saturday's crash was an extreme example of a tail strike, with the landing gear, tail and rear portion of the fuselage being torn off by impact with the sea wall beyond the end of the runway.