There are far too many tail strike incidents happening regularly all over the world, some serious. Something is fundamentally wrong, deep down, which needs to be identified, and fixed.
In the mean time, perhaps we should be putting Tiger Moth skids back on jets, with a sensor, to alert the crew when they have been used, along with an automated immediate acars message with a special code, which the ground network immediately decodes, and flashes it up in red on the airline's maintenance monitoring system. Moreover, the delay (with 90 second runway operations these days) in advising ATC, and indeed possibly not advising them at all, could result in catastrophy one day, if there is debris.
So, the ACARS ground processing system should simultaneously direct the unique (to be assigned) tailstrike message to the control tower (which would obviously need to be "plugged into the system") so that the safety of following aircraft, either landing or taking off, is not compromised, by possible unknown debris. An even better idea, would be to build it into the Mode S message stream as well.
In the mean time, perhaps we should be putting Tiger Moth skids back on jets, with a sensor, to alert the crew when they have been used, along with an automated immediate acars message with a special code, which the ground network immediately decodes, and flashes it up in red on the airline's maintenance monitoring system. Moreover, the delay (with 90 second runway operations these days) in advising ATC, and indeed possibly not advising them at all, could result in catastrophy one day, if there is debris.
So, the ACARS ground processing system should simultaneously direct the unique (to be assigned) tailstrike message to the control tower (which would obviously need to be "plugged into the system") so that the safety of following aircraft, either landing or taking off, is not compromised, by possible unknown debris. An even better idea, would be to build it into the Mode S message stream as well.