Navajo wheels up.
Gday fellas,
Just a heads up. Anyone hear about the navajo belonging to a well known skydiving company operating out of pinjarra, having a wheels up landing on Sat.
"Lucky escape
By RYAN EMERY
17jul05
TWO people walked unhurt from a light plane after it made a forced landing without wheels at Jandakot airport late yesterday afternoon.
Pilot Robin O'Neill was flying the twin-engine aircraft from Pinjara, where he had dropped skydivers, when its landing gear developed a fault.
For 40 minutes Mr O'Neill battled to lower the plane's starboard wheel, assisted by his only passenger, Vanessa Manning.
He burnt off the aircraft fuel before landing the plane safely on its belly, with minimal damage.
It was Mr O'Neill's first landing without wheels in 12 years of flying..
"It (the landing) didn't sound pretty – there was a lot of scraping," he said.
Ms Manning said she felt surprisingly calm after the landing. But as she flew over Perth she did briefly think, that it might be the last time she saw the city.
Mr O'Neill's daughter Genna, 13, her mother Jocelyn Nainby, and Genna's friend Ameera Brandis, 13, raced from Hilton to the airport, but the aircraft had landed safely. "
Source: Sunday Times
Anyone got any info on this guy. Heard that this place is one of the better meat bombing joints around???
Gyro
Gyro ... Re your second sentence - we simply are not going there!
Woomera
Last edited by Woomera; 17th Jul 2005 at 11:54.