Earning My Wage.

[numpty]

Actually had an aircraft incident at Hamo yesterday. A Cessna Caravan (with floats) made a wheels up landing. Seems the pilot forgot to put the wheels down,:o must have thought he was landing on water.
No passengers on board, but he skidded on the floats for about 100 meters and left light gouge marks on the runway.
We turned out of course, and within 5 minutes a crane was out, had lifted the aircraft, pilot lowered the wheels, aircraft was lowered back down, started engine and taxied off to the apron.
Funniest thing was, for the next 2 hours, a horde of people were down on hands and knees picking and scraping the aluminium slivers from the bitumen surface, as they were considered a safety hazard.
Saved another one.;)

[barryj]

Expensive mistake.

[Bigbjorn]

Expensive mistake.

Any landing you walk away from is a good landing.

[BigJon]

Any landing you walk away from is a good landing.

Any landing where you can use the aircraft again is a great one! :D

[JDNSW]

Any landing where you can use the aircraft again is a great one! :D

I think the original was "Any landing you can walk away from is a successful one, and if the aircraft is still serviceable it was a good landing".

John

[numpty]

There's the other explanation...."a successful landing is a controlled crash";)

[Pedro_The_Swift]

so,, that makes one for the year Numpty??:p

[JDNSW]

In line with someone here's signature about sealed roads, I would point out that landing an amphibious plane on grass not bitumen, while frowned upon, is likely to result in a damage free landing.

John

[BigJon]

In line with someone here's signature about sealed roads, I would point out that landing an amphibious plane on grass not bitumen, while frowned upon, is likely to result in a damage free landing.

John

I have seen footage of an amphibious plane being landed wheels down in water. It did a very abrupt half roll forwards!

[djhampson]

Can you imangine the pilots reaction when the plane touched down and the sounds of metal on bitumen filled the air??


Oh S**t!!!

[JDNSW]

I have seen footage of an amphibious plane being landed wheels down in water. It did a very abrupt half roll forwards!

Landing wheels down on water is a lot worse than landing wheels up on land!

John

[JDNSW]

Can you imangine the pilots reaction when the plane touched down and the sounds of metal on bitumen filled the air??

At least with an amphibious floatplane the damage is a lot less than with a landplane, although I'll bet its pretty expensive even so.

John

[Bushie]

Actually had an aircraft incident at Hamo yesterday. A Cessna Caravan (with floats) made a wheels up landing. Seems the pilot forgot to put the wheels down,:o must have thought he was landing on water.
No passengers on board, but he skidded on the floats for about 100 meters and left light gouge marks on the runway.
We turned out of course, and within 5 minutes a crane was out, had lifted the aircraft, pilot lowered the wheels, aircraft was lowered back down, started engine and taxied off to the apron.
Funniest thing was, for the next 2 hours, a horde of people were down on hands and knees picking and scraping the aluminium slivers from the bitumen surface, as they were considered a safety hazard.
Saved another one.;)


Well thats it then, time to retire on a high :D:D

(were we ever on shift together for an incident???)


Martyn

[numpty]

(were we ever on shift together for an incident???)
Martyn

Negative.

They removed the floats yesterday and it is now flying back and forwards to Airlie as usual. Aircraft flys for Hamilton Island Airways, a Grant Kenny company.