Now THAT is an emergency landing!

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John Hodges (originalgrunge) Captain
Joined: Feb 29, 2004 Posts: 726 Location: New York City
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:32 am

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/us/2005/11/17/vo.ga.plane.gear.landing.affl&checkAgain=false&wm=native_nm

This was a clip from CNN (wait for the commercial to finish playing for the video to start). The King Air had to make an approach with no gears, and man, what a landing! It looks better than most of mine WITH gears down!

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Insight Chief Captain
Joined: Feb 17, 2005 Posts: 1155 Location: UK, South East
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:45 am

wow what a landing.. he did a superb job right there!

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CrashGordon Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 3821
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:56 am

Great job, but whay does CNN title it, "Plane attempts belly landing"? Are they trying to attract people hoping it wasn't successful?

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PanAmerican Captain
Joined: Sep 26, 2005 Posts: 573 Location: I Forgot
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:22 am

Picture perfect Landing. 10 out of 10.

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jarred_01 Captain
Joined: Aug 29, 2005 Posts: 938 Location: Hamilton, New Zealand (NZHN)
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:43 am

Wow, I just saw that on the TV. Credit to the pilot for an amazing landing! 👍

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Jonathan (99jolegg) Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4112 Location: UK
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:12 am

Great landing ❗

A very skilled pilot Yes

Guest Ed Guest
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:17 am

In the footage I saw, it looked like he tried to land it one time with just two whells down and got a little sideways, and went off the runway. So, he went around and came back again with all the gear up.

Heck of a thing to do to a King Air, though. Crying or Very sad

Ed

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RadarMan Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17934 Location: U.S.A
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:22 am

That man is good, very good! 👏

Radar

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Greekman72 Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 15, 2005 Posts: 5418 Location: Hellas
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:52 am

He is the Man ❗ Great skilly job Clap

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FHeselton Trainee
Joined: Jul 12, 2004 Posts: 88 Location: Linden VA, USA
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:26 am

I'll fly with him any time. Outstanding job.

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Manuel Agustin Clausse (Agus0404) Chief Captain
Joined: Jul 29, 2004 Posts: 2272 Location: Evora, Portugal. Hometown: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:00 pm

That was incredible! He's got skills 😀

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Ed Reagle (edr1073) First Officer
Joined: Jun 19, 2004 Posts: 473 Location: Stafford Virginia
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:43 pm

WOW...!!! A little bit of a long run for the controlled landing. They all walked away and look to be fine. Yes I think that the media was hoping for a failure. They do like to sensationalize things quite a bit.

I would fly anytime or anywhere with that pilot.

Guest
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:50 pm

Great piloting! What was wrong with the gear that they couldn't put it down in the first place?

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jarred_01 Captain
Joined: Aug 29, 2005 Posts: 938 Location: Hamilton, New Zealand (NZHN)
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:57 pm

CrashGordon wrote:

Great job, but whay does CNN title it, "Plane attempts belly landing"? Are they trying to attract people hoping it wasn't successful?

Yes the media are always doing things like that, it is just to grab attention.

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Micah Captain
Joined: Mar 06, 2004 Posts: 512 Location: West Sussex, England
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:50 pm

three cheers!! 🍻 🍻 🍻

incredible!!!

Micah 😉

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tomthetank Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 24, 2003 Posts: 3392 Location: Newport S/Wales
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:47 pm

Umm... No gear down Fear Idea Read just approach as if the gear is down 😎

Perfect

Great job 👍

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Manuel Agustin Clausse (Agus0404) Chief Captain
Joined: Jul 29, 2004 Posts: 2272 Location: Evora, Portugal. Hometown: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:04 pm

Hahaha 😂 that CNN reporter sounds like he was the pilot's instructor...

"Hold it, hold it....Get it as low as you can..."

Annoying reporter 😕

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sylvan First Officer
Joined: Jun 08, 2004 Posts: 323 Location: Manchester UK
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Sat Nov 19, 2005 12:50 am

PanAmerican wrote:

Picture perfect Landing. 10 out of 10.

Pan my friend whats the chance of taking a couple of carriages off that train so we don't have to scroll right? I know it's petty but hey some of us are old and can't be arsed. Thanks

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HardLanding First Officer
Joined: Oct 10, 2005 Posts: 115 Location: Brooklyn
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Sat Nov 19, 2005 1:41 pm

He made it look so easy. Thanks for the heads-up.

Didn't they once cover runways in foamy stuff for landings like that?

HL

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Jonathan (99jolegg) Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4112 Location: UK
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Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:09 pm

I think that is only for big passenger jets. Could be wrong though. 😉

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PanAmerican Captain
Joined: Sep 26, 2005 Posts: 573 Location: I Forgot
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Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:30 pm

sylvan wrote:

PanAmerican wrote:

Picture perfect Landing. 10 out of 10.

Pan my friend whats the chance of taking a couple of carriages off that train so we don't have to scroll right? I know it's petty but hey some of us are old and can't be arsed. Thanks

I changed the photo so it shouldn't be a problem anymore.

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Alex (Littleal100) Trainee
Joined: Jul 26, 2005 Posts: 74 Location: Florida
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Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:54 pm

wow i would hate to be on that plane

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Alex (Littleal100) Trainee
Joined: Jul 26, 2005 Posts: 74 Location: Florida
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Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:55 pm

i want a refund.... wheres the emergency crew???

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