Stricken aircraft belly flops at Blenheim

[Storm]

Watching the footage, I have to say:
Fuck me, that pilot deserves a massive bonus for putting it down so smoothly. Wasnt even a bump, nor sparks(that I could see). Slicker 'n a politician.
Couldnt help thinking that this will in the training films as the "how to do it right" for a long time.
Laughed at the passenger who said how smooth and unpaniced it was, and how he was glad it "was a New Zealand crash landing, not an American one! "

[terbang]

Did the Comanche have much damage?

It survived to fly another day with only damage to the right nacelle and wing.

Had a chat to a mate of mine who flys those things and it is the flight manual procedure to land wheels up with the engines running. I had a look at some of my preious type notes and on the piston types it is recommended to shutdown, just prior tp touchdown or just on touchdown. The Dash 8 (turboprop) recommends immediatly after touchdown, Gulfstream IV (jet with tail mounted engines) recommends fuel off on ground contact and the Boeing (jet with underslung engines) details a shutdown after landing completed. Type specific really I guess.

[MisterD]

nor sparks(that I could see).

Aluminininiumium doesn't spark...

[marty]

went to BHE to have a look - bit of a mess, probably about $1.2 mill damage.

i couldn't find the procedure for wheels up in the POH, but our QRH saysprops at 1700rpm, power levers @ flight idle. shut down on touchdown.

there is some doubling on the fuselage next to the props, but mostly for sound deadening.

the comanche has a single motor with 3 pushrods, so if one jams, the whole lot is buggered.

RE KIP, we now have accountable company torches - not allowed our own

RE ERU, lots of skullduggery talk, but just a mistake. we now have a process to minimise/eliminate that happening - hell even concord had a wheel that wasn't fitted properly - look what happened to that!

the metro had a broken actuator rod i think

here's some pix:

[terbang]

concord had a wheel that wasn't fitted properly - look what happened to that!

I drove past the crater and remainder of the hotel on the way to the sim at Le Bourget. It was not long after that accident happened and was a very sobering sight.

[marty]

there's 3 plane crashes that i think about on a regular basis:

1. TIK - went in at Ngahinapouri killing all on board, including a young girl who was the same age as my son at the time. The post mortems were very difficult. In my previous (to the Police) occupation I had flown on TIK from Raro to NZ when it was delivered here, and worked on it regularly. A very small circle.

2. The JAL 747 that blew the rear pressure bulkhead out and blew the tail off. James Reason's swiss cheese holes lining up 10 years after they started being piled up.

3. Concord into Le Bourget. Just because.

[nadroj]

[QUOTE=marty;1103171]there's 3 plane crashes that i think about on a regular basis:

1. TIK - went in at Ngahinapouri killing all on board, including a young girl who was the same age as my son at the time. The post mortems were very difficult. In my previous (to the Police) occupation I had flown on TIK from Raro to NZ when it was delivered here, and worked on it regularly. A very small circle.
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That was Hans & Bliss Wagner of the Pro Biotics garlic fame, residents of New Plymouth. Also on board was Mrs Ivan Jones from Hawera. It would have been about 1995/6. I was working with a guy doing his CPL at the time who now flies Q300's & heard it was a fuel transfer switch installed upside down.