NZFF

I was sent this clip by a friend, showing a King Air doing a gear up landing in the USA. The clip comes from CNN. The pilot does a perfect landing as you will see:-



smooth landings (gear up or down).

Not long after I first saw this clip that identical incident in Blenheim happened... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7jJA7jmyzk

The RNZAF has had one Kingair land where the nose gear wouldn't lock down. Luckily they were just doing circuits at Ohakea and there was minimal damage to the aircraft.

WOW
Great landing

Makes you think there must be something wrong with King Air/1900 undercarriage?

Naki wrote:

QUOTE (Naki @ Sep 4 2009, 03:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Makes you think there must be something wrong with King Air/1900 undercarriage?

MMMM not sure that 3 incidents out of the thousands of Kingairs flying would suggest there is a problem at all - it all comes down to reasons - often they are maintenance related. I was standing not far from the guy filming the Woodbourne incident - the second wheels up I've witnessed first hand, the other was a Banderainte at Palmy North in 1988. Interestingly there seems to be two different techniques with engines - The 1900 has composite props, so the engines are left going as the propellers easily fracture and not much damage is done to the engine. In the case of the Kingair ( and Bandit) the props have metal blades, so feathering and allowing the blades to form an X pattern and then bend obviously results in less damage than leaving them running.