Belly Landing

[George K]

[89th]

Wow what a week for Asian airlines. The Korean flight almost looked like it wanted to take off again after realizing it was on an off path.

[bachophile]

Reading the aviation herald on this. Of course pre investigation u can’t really know for sure but working hypothesis is a bird strike caused an engine shut down, and pilots wanted to do a go around and retracted the landing gear ( an eyewitness saw the plane approaching with gear down) but then the other engine flamed, no hydraulics and they couldn’t get the gear down again and tried a belly landing.

[Copper]

Two people survived.

That was really bad. The video looks like the plane drove into some kind of mound.

[jon-nyc]

Apparently the two survivors were both flight attendants.

I assume they were in the back.

[Jolly]

@bachophile said in Belly Landing:

Reading the aviation herald on this. Of course pre investigation u can’t really know for sure but working hypothesis is a bird strike caused an engine shut down, and pilots wanted to do a go around and retracted the landing gear ( an eyewitness saw the plane approaching with gear down) but then the other engine flamed, no hydraulics and they couldn’t get the gear down again and tried a belly landing.

Heard a guy talking today. He said that there are three levers in the cockpit that allow the landing gear to drop without hydraulic pressure.

[Copper]

Was it in 12 O'clock High where the guy was cranking the gear down by hand forever and finally got it down about 2 seconds before they landed?

[George K]

@Copper said in Belly Landing:

Was it in 12 O'clock High where the guy was cranking the gear down by hand forever and finally got it down about 2 seconds before they landed?

Wasn't there a similar scene in "Memphis Belle"?

Link to video

[Copper]

@George-K said in Belly Landing:

"Memphis Belle"

That's it

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc said in Belly Landing:

Apparently the two survivors were both flight attendants.

I assume they were in the back.

[LuFins Dad]

Thanks for bringing this thread back up while Lucas is currently over the Atlantic…