Originally Posted by
Council Van
That appears to be a little bit more than a blown tyre.
Nicely understated! Wheels all wonky, etc. One wonders how much harder it'd have to have been for the gear to have collapsed. Sturdy things.
You can see a certain wobbliness in the approach, quite a lot of yaw to the right just before touchdown (I can't see right rudder being applied), lots of up-elevator just as its touching down, and a boot full of left rudder as the right hand gear gets mushed into the runway. I don't know if it's just the video compression hiding things or not, but the left rudder seems to be applied very suddenly. It looks like it was quite blustery - the grass is getting blown around a lot. Just a bad day at the office? ACMS pointed out that the touchdown itself didn't look very hard. I wonder if it was quite hard, and a lot sideways?