9J-MJS was a 1968ish BE55 Baron and was formerly owned by BA at Hamble, UK registration G-AWAE. She was old but great to fly, certainly looked after me for many hundreds of hours even after a 50 minute, 6 up stretch following an engine failure, hitting an impala landing at Lukuzi, several manual extensions of the gear following electric motor failure (boy, how the knuckles bleed) and more. Taken me to Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa, DR Congo etc over 8 years of flying her. Sad for this to happen, but like JockFlyer said, she was getting a little long in the tooth (18000hrs plus) and at least there were no fatalities.
Anyone know why the gear up happened? Pure forgetfulness I guess?
Yep, a real shame.
NP.
