Landing short can ruin your day...
 

Gmunden Laarkirchen Airport on Friday...

Not so much that they landed short, as that they lost control of the aeroplane on touchdown.

Certainly a ruined day, no dispute on that point.

G

That's probably the shortest landing in an AN-2 ever.

Quite possibly, you owe me a new keyboard. :D

Yes, that does look like an undershoot. The approach appears to have been flown with precision, suggesting that an early touchdown was intended. Google Earth tells me that runway is 2000 feet long, so I can imagine a pilot focusing on preventing landing long. And, there appears to be quite an upslope to the end of 08 where the crash occurred. I've seen AN-2 operations into a shorter runway with no apparent difficulty, so it seems reasonable that the pilot planned to land there, it just didn't work out this time...

What a shame that is a lovely old example of the type there...

This website shows some pictures of the accident including the concrete block in front of the threshold that ripped off the undercarriage: https://www.meinbezirk.at/salzkammergut/c-lokales/bruchlandung-der-legendaeren-antonov2-am-flugfeld-laakirchen_a3585414#gallery=default&pid=20718936

NB: The website of the airfield gives a landing distance of 550m for runway 08 which is plenty for that kind of aeroplane. No need at all to land before the piano keys.

NNB: The approach chart (this link is from the airfield website: http://www.fliegerclub-traunsee.at/w...u-Jeppesen.pdf) explicitely warns of "In front of both RWYs marked steep slopes".

Oh no! Not the dreaded into wind landing....

Puts CFIT into an entirely new perspective...

first time I have read one of your posts and thought you have got it wrong

the first sentence anyway :)

​​​​​​we now have CFOT - a normal landing with an outcome the pilot had not intended or expected

Not so normal landing imo. approach was flown a little too shallow angle. I witnessed another accident like that (Spanish AF Casa) with about identical path and result hitting short of runway uphill enbankment, damaging gear and other exitment as a result. That is not how to make a short precision landing.
-M-