To: Dan from Michigan
"The gear on the $300,000 airplane had not been lowered for the landing, and the plane sustained about $100,000 damage when its belly landed on the runway..."
This happened to a friend of mine, when he traded in his fixed gear aircraft for one with retractable wheels. Ouch.
3 posted on
03/08/2005 9:02:13 AM PST by
Altamira
(Get the UN out of the US, and the US out of the UN!)
To: Altamira
"This happened to a friend of mine, when he traded in his fixed gear aircraft for one with retractable wheels. Ouch."
That's what checklists are for. Replacing the whole belly skin is an expensive lesson. Oh, and a prop and possibly an engine from the sudden stop not to mention the terminal embarrassment.
9 posted on
03/08/2005 9:21:55 AM PST by
dljordan
To: Altamira
This happened to a friend of mine, when he traded in his fixed gear aircraft for one with retractable wheels. Which is why private pilots should give a lot of consideration to staying with fixed gear aircraft.
To: Altamira
This happened to a friend of mine, when he traded in his fixed gear aircraft for one with retractable wheels. Ouch. An old bit of pilot wisdom: There are two types of pilots; those who have landed gear up and those who haven't...YET.
30 posted on
03/08/2005 10:56:33 AM PST by
RJL
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