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Old 31st Aug 2010, 01:31
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Here's what the ABC is saying . . .

John Butler, Bushrangers in crash-landing scare

The Victorian cricket team and Australian band John Butler Trio were among passengers caught in a crash-landing scare on a flight at Adelaide airport.
Passengers on board Qantas flight QF757 from Darwin were told just before landing that the front landing gear was not down.

The captain told passengers to get ready for a "crash landing", but the plane landed without incident.

Qantas says the pilot received "conflicting cockpit indications" about whether the landing gear was working and that passengers were told to take the brace position as a precaution.

Professor Damien Kingsbury of Deakin University was on the plane and says it was a terrifying experience.

"We had the John Butler band on board, we had the Victorian cricket team on board so it could have been a very messy outcome," he told 774 ABC Radio.

"We were in full brace position and we didn't know until we hit the ground whether we were going to crash or not."

He said the pilot was very matter-of-fact and the cabin crew were professional, but nervous.

"We didn't know until we hit the ground whether we were going to crash or not," he said.

"It's a bit like being before a firing squad and not knowing if they're firing blanks."

He said there was about seven or eight minutes between the announcement and the landing.

"I met a number of the people afterwards and not surprisingly, they were pretty shaken up because we really thought we were going down without a front wheel and it would have been a fairly serious outcome," he said.
"There were fire trucks everywhere, flashing lights, the whole catastrophe."

John Butler, Bushrangers in crash-landing scare - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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