Perfect belly landing.

[Longtimer]

Watch: Plane Makes Emergency Landing At Newcastle Airport After Landing Gear Fails
Watch: Plane Makes Emergency Landing At Newcastle Airport After Landing Gear Fails (ndtv.com)

[Piper.Classique]

Newcastle in Australia. In case anyone wondered.

[Xray4277]

Originally Posted by Longtimer

Watch: Plane Makes Emergency Landing At Newcastle Airport After Landing Gear Fails
Watch: Plane Makes Emergency Landing At Newcastle Airport After Landing Gear Fails (ndtv.com)

Ah yes...a good landing is one you can walk away from...a GREAT landing is one where you get to use the aeroplane again...

[sycamore]

Looks like the wheels are partially extended at touchdown..Why not feather both engines just before touchdown....?

[Pilot DAR]

Why not feather both engines just before touchdown

Not quite as important on a PT-6, they're free turbine, so the rest of the engine does not really know what the prop is doing anyway, and doesn't care. The obverse being that I have many times feathered a PT-6 prop while the engine was still running at idle. There is a extreme cold weather procedure for Twin Otters to actually tie the prop to prevent them turning, while you start and warm up the engine, so that warmed oil is available for the gearbox.

And, I have been told that if it's more than a two blade prop, (so you know that a blade is going to hit the surface for sure, feathering puts the strong axis of the blade such that it could do more engine damage - the prop is a gonner anyway. For a two blade prop on a piston engine, yes, if you can safely get it stopped, and horizontal, the insurance company will smile!

[Cedrik]

It was a real reflection of the pilot skill when the assembled well informed aircraft spotter crowd at the airport fence broke into spontaneous applause when the aircraft landed
some other press pearls.....the aircraft flew around dumping fuel, the aircraft appeared to power down just before landing, there was a strong smell of fuel after the aircraft stopped. Maybe he left the choke on and it was running a bit rich?
Another one heard from ABC news I think it was that the aircraft "did a belly up landing"

[cncpc]

Originally Posted by Pilot DAR

Not quite as important on a PT-6, they're free turbine, so the rest of the engine does not really know what the prop is doing anyway, and doesn't care. The obverse being that I have many times feathered a PT-6 prop while the engine was still running at idle. There is a extreme cold weather procedure for Twin Otters to actually tie the prop to prevent them turning, while you start and warm up the engine, so that warmed oil is available for the gearbox.

And, I have been told that if it's more than a two blade prop, (so you know that a blade is going to hit the surface for sure, feathering puts the strong axis of the blade such that it could do more engine damage - the prop is a gonner anyway. For a two blade prop on a piston engine, yes, if you can safely get it stopped, and horizontal, the insurance company will smile!

Well said.

[601]

Why not feather both engines just before touchdown....?

You could loose the gearbox off the front of the engine if one blade stopped in the vertical down position.

The main wheels on a King Air protrude slightly below the nacelle except where a Raisbeck kit has been fitted to fully enclose the wheels.
Gear Doors

[pattern_is_full]

Originally Posted by sycamore

Looks like the wheels are partially extended at touchdown..Why not feather both engines just before touchdown....?

Some King Air models leave the gear partly exposed in flight - sort of like the DC-3s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechc...:Tc-90_04l.jpg

[dash34]

Why not put it down on the grass?

[B2N2]

Originally Posted by dash34

Why not put it down on the grass?

Soil can be much lumpier and grass can hide all sorts of stuff.
Concrete is just…concrete.