Thread: The old and the New ( Planes _)

Was reading an accident report the other day, an American C-17 crew landed but forgot to lower the gear.......how embarrassing would that be??

(They slid for about 1.7km, no doubt thinking all the time s*%# s^&*#$ my career is over!)

Originally Posted by Frenchie

Was reading an accident report the other day, an American C-17 crew landed but forgot to lower the gear.......how embarrassing would that be??

(They slid for about 1.7km, no doubt thinking all the time s*%# s^&*#$ my career is over!)

I got the e-mail, photos included.

I think this is the one?

Originally Posted by Frenchie

Was reading an accident report the other day, an American C-17 crew landed but forgot to lower the gear.......how embarrassing would that be??

(They slid for about 1.7km, no doubt thinking all the time s*%# s^&*#$ my career is over!)

Originally Posted by juddy

I think this is the one?

I had a series of ground shot too. Never let the truth get in the way of a good tale!

Yes they were good ground shots, night time i think.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

I had a series of ground shot too. Never let the truth get in the way of a good tale!

Probably was a dare... one pilot to the other:

"I bet ya $50 I cn land this baby without wheels and without breaking it"

"OK, ill double that, if you can keep it from sliding more than 2ks"

How embarrassment!!!!! (with apologies to Effie)

That would be the reason why air traffic control in Australia always ask military pilots to check for green lights, indicating their undercarriage is lowered.

As an aside, we had a Cessna Caravan float plane land at Hamilton Island wheels up. Only skidded on the floats for about 50 metres, but a crew of about 30 spent the next 3 hours picking all of the aluminium out of the bitumen. Within 15 minutes a crane was out on the runway, lifted the Cessna, wheels were lowered, Cessna put back down, started up and taxied off. The pilots employment was terminated as this was the second time he'd done it, and they'd only recently refitted the repaired floats.