Plane belly flop!

[up-the-dubs]

Atlanta, a short while ago, this plane had to belly flop as it's gear had failed. Full video on www.cbsnews.com.

Pilot makes a perfect landing with the plane gently coming to a stop and the two on board walking calmly away! Pilot even had foresight to stop the props just as he was about to land.

Mad

Edit: The link is on the right of their hompage listed in blue under the most recent video

>> Edited by up-the-dubs on Thursday 17th November 23:28

[UKBob]

clicky

[kneedowndeano]

Only one car!! Where are the fire-engines?

[eharding]

Well, he had to come down sooner or later...at least
he knew the gear was up....I know of one BA
767 pilot who recently bought one of our donglers a year's
supply of beer after said sharp-eyed dongler noted
the BA guy on late final in a Yak with his gear still
up...and called him before he got a very expensive
sinking feeling.....there but for the grace of God etc...

[towman]

Good Job.

[Pies]

Watched it on the news,great landing

[tvradict]

Give that man a medal! What a superb piece of flying!

The cynic in me does question the medias interest in this. Were they hoping to see a brilliant piece of flying such as that, or be the first to air aerial shots of a fireball?

[roop]

That's when our bus drivers earn their money. Well done mr/mrs pilot

>> Edited by roop on Thursday 17th November 19:59

[bga]

Great landing! shame the commentator had to state the bleeding obvious.

[UKBob]

bga said:

Great landing! shame the commentator had to state the bleeding obvious.

Thats america for you, the public love it, following which come the usual re-runs of the episode

[Eric Mc]

What do you expect me to say?

Good landing. Minimal damage.

It's a Beech 90/100 King Air, by the way.

[FunkyNige]

Can't be arsed to click the link, was this the one where the passengers were watching it live on the tvs in the plane?

[Eric Mc]

I don't think so - not in Beech.

That was the A320 a few weeks ago.

[deckster]

eharding said:

after said sharp-eyed dongler noted the BA guy on late final in a Yak with his gear still up...

Does anyone have the slightest idea what this means?

[eharding]

deckster said:

eharding said: after said sharp-eyed dongler noted the BA guy on late final in a Yak with his gear still up... Does anyone have the slightest idea what this means?

Sorry - I'll translate.

'dongler' = ground crew (generally straight
out of school, mad keen of flying, also
mad keen on beer)

'late final' - about to land

'gear still up' - no wheels, where wheels should be

'BA guy..in a Yak' - the bloke who will be flying
you and the family on holiday...in a Russian flying TVR

[StuB]

deckster said:

eharding said: after said sharp-eyed dongler noted the BA guy on late final in a Yak with his gear still up... Does anyone have the slightest idea what this means?

The one eyed snake/80's software consultant (dongler?) noticed the black anal (BA) guy being sick (Yak) without taking his trousers down first (gear still up)?

[eharding]

StuB said:

deckster said: eharding said: after said sharp-eyed dongler noted the BA guy on late final in a Yak with his gear still up... Does anyone have the slightest idea what this means? The one eyed snake/80's software consultant (dongler?) noticed the black anal (BA) guy being sick (Yak) without taking his trousers down first (gear still up)?

On second thoughts...yes...thats it......

[wedg1e]

I don't understand. I've flown the King Air, and if you press {ctrl}'H' repeatedly, it manually pumps the landing gear down...

[ErnestM]

...Wedg1e - barring that, just hit Esc and try again, eh?


ErnestM

[eharding]

Not sure what the keystrokes are to get the engines
shut down and the props stopped and feathered...but
matey landing it this afternoon did...very slick.