Good to hear the pilot's pretty well OK - one can always buy another Aztec.
While don't know the detail of his unscheduled arrival back on terra firma, I tend to cock an eyebrow when I see that lazy, 'one size fits all' expression,
"Collision with Terrain".
When one sees that, it brings to mind an aircraft stuffed into the side of a mountain.
Sounds like he did well to put it down gently enough to walk away.
A terse instructor might well say to a student.. "That wasn't a landing, son - that was a 'collision with terrain'.
It's all a matter of degree.
Why not say 'a rock got in the way during rollout'?
(I am being cheeky.)
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Last edited by Stanwell; 16th Mar 2016 at 07:26.
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