Emergency landing at Newcastle (Aus)

[Jader1973]

Bit of drama at lunchtime today.

According to the news reports the landing gear failed just after take off so it spent a couple of hours burning fuel before landing. Looks like a perfect landing.




https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-13/plane-emerg...

Other footage (try YouTube) shows the 3 that were onboard opening the door, stepping out, and standing calmly beside it.

[Jader1973]

Riley Blue said:

Rider007 said:

Pilot not know that there is an emergency hand pump procedure for locked wheels up situation ?

A costly lack of knowledge if so.

Given they’d been going in circles for a couple of hours you’d hope someone on the ground would have said “Try this…” at some point.

I’d assume it was knackered and they had no other choice.