{"id":20027,"date":"2024-03-15T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-do-pilots-avoid-tail-strikes\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T00:00:12","slug":"how-do-pilots-avoid-tail-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=20027","title":{"rendered":"How Do Pilots Avoid Tail Strikes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/tail-strike\/\">tail strike<\/a> occurs when the tail of an airplane contacts the ground during take-off or landing. These incidents can result in significant damage, especially if they occur during landing when there is usually a more forceful impact on the ground. First and foremost, tail strikes are a safety threat that can potentially compromise the structural integrity of the aircraft in severe instances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tail strikes can cause severe and expensive damage to aircraft, but they are preventable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1998,567,705,629,1720,6281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation-accidents","category-guides","category-landing","category-pilots","category-tail-strike","category-take-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20029,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20027\/revisions\/20029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}