Yep Elderslie watched it happen.
Landed long, used no reverse, drifted to the right until nose was in the shallow drain, hit the drain pipe still doing around 15/20 mph. Would have hit the fuel tanker if pipe did not stop it.
Pilot arrived from LAX late day before, early drive from home at Camden to Wolongong to pick up aircraftflew to ELD to arrive around 845am.
Had not flown C208 for 6 weeks or so had not flown into ELD for quite awhile.
So you work out why it happened.
Bowie took it rather well did not yell or scream once. engine only had 200 hrs to run. near new prop tho. no firwall damage. mount and nose gear stuffed. down for 3 weeks.
Last edited by fencehopper; 15th May 2014 at 08:20.