Costa Rica gear up landing
Just saw this video on the BBC site. A little late on the round out....?
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-la...erica-50726800 All occupants unharmed. Edit: Only just noticed that it is an old incident. Don't know why the site thought it useful to push it to the top of the list again. Apologies, if this one has been covered in an earlier thread, this one can be closed. |
Not sure there was any round out! Ouch!
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Yeah, that one's been seen here before. I remember commenting what a poor landing it was then, and it's still a poor landing, gear or not!
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Originally Posted by treadigraph
(Post 10986866)
Not sure there was any round out!
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I saw a Belgian Seneca have a whoopsy on landing at Blackbushe many years ago - I don't recall the sequence exactly but there was quite a sound of oil canning (or maybe props eating concrete!); it stopped on the runway with both props stationary and was pushed clear by the occupants. Presumably a heavy landing, possibly a bit of wheelbarrowing. Not close enough to see if there was any prop damage.
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That's an old problem of the Seneca: When you get slow, which I suppose this pilot did on purpose in that situation, you don't have enough elevator to hold the nose up. |
Originally Posted by Pilot DAR
(Post 10987337)
I have experienced that with every type I have stalled!
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I have never explored the envelope of the Seneca to those extremes, so that is a useful bit of information. It also reinforces the old 'know thy aeroplane' commandment.
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But with a Seneca it can happen 10kt before the stall, even with the centre of gravity well within limits. So an attentive pilot must maintain flying speed. This pilot did not do that, he did not maintain enough speed to flare the plane to arrest the rate of descent. Sure, shut the engines down to save severe propstrikes, I would too, but then make sure that you fly the plane into the flare, to preserve speed with which to flare! |
The accident aircraft is a Seneca 1. There is a reason that the Seneca 2 and subsequent Seneca models had a redesigned Elevator control system. I can say from personal experience that a Seneca 1, at the forward C of G was difficult to pitch up to a proper landing attitude in the flare, even with full up elevator.
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Just did some research about the landing incident I saw at Blackbushe - three different Belgian Senecas visited that week, two were Seneca 1s. Think there were three or four adults aboard...
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