Fortunately I managed to miss all the chaos this landing caused today, but I'm really confused as to what happened. Early reports said it had landed gear up, and it rather looked that way to start, then it was said that it was caused by a bird strike(?) out of Wajir, then it was a precautionary landing at JKIA with a collapsed nose gear.... And now it seems the story mill has it a gear failure on landing.
I don't know the Fokker at all but I am amazed that a bird strike could cause a total gear failure? One gear jammed I can understand but all three? I would have thought that these dear old birds (excuse the pun) were originally built with backup systems surely??
