747 gear up JKIA [Archive]

Komba

1st Oct 2005, 08:03

Cargo lux 747 did a gear up landing at JKIA apparently gear problems on takeoff. Returned and did a gear up landing. Details sketchy. No injuries.
Aircraft still on the runway. HKJK is closed, all aircraft are diverting to Mombasa / Entebbe / Kilimanjaro / Eldoret.

alexmcfire

1st Oct 2005, 12:54

Any pics of the B747?
More about it here http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1809609,00.html

mach decimal 83

1st Oct 2005, 13:02

http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=32553

SebasW

1st Oct 2005, 14:08

Must be chaos at JKIA at the moment.

Cessnafan

1st Oct 2005, 21:30

Any pics of the B747?
Pictures, you must be joking, you get seen with a camera at an african airport and you're in for long dollars! Have to wait for something official.

alexmcfire

4th Oct 2005, 12:05

Cessna, have a look here and you find many shots from African airports, http://www.worldairroutes.com/

Spydee

4th Oct 2005, 16:40

Not true at all. I happened to be at the scene and there were many people with cameras including grounded KQ pilot's clicking away with their phone cameras. No attempt was made to stop them. The local press arrived later and took more photo's and TV footage. Sadly, i didn't have a camera on me.

saywhat

5th Oct 2005, 08:02

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/2357340/

Possibly not as bad as first reported!!!!!!!