Belly Landing
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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.
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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.
@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.
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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?
@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"?
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@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"?
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@jon-nyc said in Belly Landing:
Apparently the two survivors were both flight attendants.
I assume they were in the back.
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Thanks for bringing this thread back up while Lucas is currently over the Atlantic…
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