Whoops - who forgot the landing gear

[Discomark]

[ame=http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=887_1346577445]LiveLeak.com - Onboard plane crash- no landing gear used, checklist fail ![/ame]

[goingbush]

duh, Socata TB-20, wheels up warning buzzer, stall buzzer came in about right, why didnt he go round & read the checklist ?

if it was a known gear fault they should have landed on the grass

reminds me of trusting my Defender to a Landrover dealer

[Blknight.aus]

thats an amateurs attempt,

let me show you how the pros do it.



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New images of C-17 wheels-up at Bagram (with video)

[Cloud Basher]

goingbush,
You are a brave man I reckon stating what you have. Nope I have not yet landed wheels up, but I always refuse to bag pilots who do. The strip he was going into looked fairly short, it looked to be one way or at least have a fairly steep approach and departure at both ends. Easy to get distracted. I have had two mates now who have landed wheels up. Both of them beat themselves up heaps and both were what I would classify as very competent pilots with one having many thousands of hours and over 40 years of flying. They both admitted it was their own stupid fault, but it can happen to anyone of us if we are not on the ball ALL the time when flying.

As for the gear warning horn, very easy to tune out any warning horns or alarms as has been proven many many times in aircraft accidents all over the world, including some very famous multi-crew airline accidents.

I am not defending this guy, just stating "but there for the grace of god go I..."

Cheers
CB

[goingbush]

Agreed ,
any landing you can walk away from is a good one

[PhilipA]

Many years ago, about 40 , the Chief Air Safety Inspector of the then DCA did that at Tullamarine.
I think it was a HS125.
Bit more costly than a littlun.
There were some red faces over that one.
Regards Philip A

[BigJon]

Agreed ,
any landing you can walk away from is a good one

And if you can reuse the aircraft it is a great one!

[C00P]

Pilots of retractables fall into two groups:
(1) Those who have landed with their wheels up, and
(2) Those who will....


Coop
(I fly one with fixed gear...)

[BigBlackDog]

I watched a mate who I'd trained land a light twin with the wheels up, worst bit about that is it was full of media people that blew the whole thing out of proportion, as they do. This guy was all over the plane, great procedures the lot, can happen to any one

...except me (obviously)

[tailslide]

Pilots of retractables fall into two groups:
(1) Those who have landed with their wheels up, and
(2) Those who will....


Coop
(I fly one with fixed gear...)

I heard that quote from my instructor for my CS/RG endorsement, he should know as he had done two wheels up or so he told me...

Yes, I like the "Down and welded" check too. I have flown the Piper Arrow and Mooneys, the Arrow had a nice feature that it would automatically drop the landing gear if you had flaps out and anything less than about 25% throttle. I never got to use its capabilties for real.

Ron