Seneca Gear Collapse Paraparaumu today

[GlennAV8R]

Unbelievable, go to Paraparamu today to watch and listen to traffic on the scanner to get familiar with this airfield and the first plane I see land, a Piper Seneca, has its landing gear collapse just after touchdown! The left gear folded up causing it to ground loop to the left and end up on the grass abeam the runway pointing in the oposite direction! No big dramas, the pilot shut down both engines, the ocupants climbeb out and they closed the runway. Its not everyday you see something like this.

[Daniel]

Good to see one of our members was on the scene
Thanks for posting this.

[Alex]

Wow, right place, right time eh Glenn...

Alex

[A185F]

haha bugger. Dirty old ROC. As soon as I saw the title with the words senica and paraparumu I knew it could only be one plane. (yes there are more than one senica there but this one which would be the first to have someting like this) The greak will be most dissapointed.

[SA227]

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The greak (Greek) will be most dissapointed.[/quote]

He will be if he hasn't paid the insurance

[hamstickZKFLT]

Wow, Not often ya see that!

[Anthony]

Wow!
Thanks for sharing your pics mate.

[beaufighterguy]

Ahaha what a fluke you must have been like WTH is he doing owwwww i seeee .

[dazza28]

Oh far out that's just down the road from me I'm glad no one was injured tho

what time was that?
I heard police and ambulance flying down the rd I don't know if they were going there or somewhere else.

[GlennAV8R]

QUOTE (dazza28 @ Aug 21 2008, 08:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Oh far out that's just down the road from me I'm glad no one was injured tho

what time was that?
I heard police and ambulance flying down the rd I don't know if they were going there or somewhere else.

Was 1.45pm. No emergency services attended so they must have been going somewhere else.

QUOTE (beaufighterguy @ Aug 21 2008, 06:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ahaha what a fluke you must have been like WTH is he doing owwwww i seeee .

It was pretty sureal actually, no noise or anything just a sudden groundloop left onto the grass. Was a fluke that it was the first landing I watched though!