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PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:01 pm
by 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.





PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:08 pm
by Daniel
Good to see one of our members was on the scene laugh.gif
Thanks for posting this.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:49 pm
by Alex
Wow, right place, right time eh Glenn... blink.gif

Alex

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:06 pm
by 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.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:24 pm
by SA227
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The greak (Greek) will be most dissapointed.[/quote]

He will be if he hasn't paid the insurance

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:36 pm
by hamstickZKFLT
Wow, Not often ya see that!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:31 pm
by Anthony
Wow! ohmy.gif
Thanks for sharing your pics mate.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:31 pm
by beaufighterguy
Ahaha what a fluke you must have been like WTH is he doing owwwww i seeee laugh.gif .

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:36 pm
by 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.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:44 pm
by GlennAV8R
dazza28 wrote:
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.

beaufighterguy wrote:
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 laugh.gif .


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!