No, I'm not God's gift to aviation, but just look at the wing flex upon that landing! Sorry, but that's
not a normal landing and the situation IMHO does not justify something like this. What about the stress on the remaining gears?
As I've said before, of course you're not going to milk it for a nice greaser, but planting (and bouncing!) it down like this is not much safer either.
If they also had an HYD 4 problem
in addition to a partial gear extension, then I seriously wonder why they didn't go to LRH which has a longer runway and is also a Virgin base (Maintenance, Pax handling etc) instead of returning to LGW.
If something like this would have happened to Korean Air, everybody here would be scrutinizing every little detail, but since it happened to a couple of
infallible Brits and the aircraft
appears to still be in one piece it's "well done to the crew" all over sudden? The only real 'gifts' to aviation on this website appear to be infallible Brits who talk with an Oxford accent.
