Beechcraft Baron belly landing at Darwin airport after landing gear failure.

[meggo]

Beechcraft Baron with four on board performs belly landing at Darwin airport after landing gear failure

Beechcraft Baron with four on board performs belly landing at Darwin airport after landing gear failure | NT News (http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/beechcraft-baron-with-four-on-board-performs-belly-landing-at-darwin-airport-after-landing-gear-failure/story-fnk0b1zt-1226898221311) NT NEWS

[Runaway Gun]

The paragraph of text after the headline was not really required ;)

[sms777]

Finally some well deserved good publicity for Air Frontier. It is shame they had to bend an aeroplane to earn it.
Well done to that pilot btw.....:ok:

[meggo]

Why, thank you Captain Obvious. I'll try to do better in future.:{

[Dog One]

Just caught the last 30secs of the news clip on Ch 24. It would appear that full flap was used for the landing. One would have thought with the length of the runways at Darwin, a flap less approach would have been better, certainly ensuring less damage to the airframe.
Is the grass strip alongside RW29 still maintained?

[Wally Mk2]

'doggy' I think you'll find that it's all about touch down speed, flapp-less just creates more of a hazard due higher speeds. The flaps/wing under surface will still need to be attended to anyway & what's that saying?............the insurance Co now own the A/C once the gear won't come down:)
Couldn't think of a better machine to do a wheels up in, typical Beech, tank mentality!:-):-)

Wmk2

[Pastor of Muppets]

Cue the Aeroclub Brigade......

[Old Akro]

Just caught the last 30secs of the news clip on Ch 24. It would appear that full flap was used for the landing.

If a good landing is any landing you can walk away from, then this was a good landing.

I assume you are suggesting that there would have been less airframe damage from a flapless landing - but - exactly how much trouble do you want to go to in order to save the insurance coy. money??

The pilots only responsibility was to get the thing on the ground in the safest manner - which means touching down with the lowest speed.

[uncle8]

and on the asphalt, not the grass.

[yr right]

Grass dose more damage to the aircraft than a hard surface. It balls up and pushes the skin up into the airframe damaging ribs and frames. Hard surface just wears away the skin normally.
Cheers

[rutan around]

At last something from yr right where I find myself in complete agreement.:ok:

[China Flyer]

The old A4 did ok..

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