View Full Version : Cherokee 6 bites the bitumen at Jandakot
QNH1013.2
17th Jul 2007, 04:37
I assume Lance / Saratoga?
TWO people escaped unscathed when their light plane landed on its underbelly at Perth's busy Jandakot airport.
The Cherokee Six, with two people on board, crash landed overnight, Australian Transport Safety Bureau spokesman Julian Walsh said.
Mr Walsh said it was unclear of the pilot forgot to lower the landing gear, or if there was a malfunction.
"There were no injuries,'' he said.
The ATSB is unlikely to investigate the incident.
The body probes 80 of the approximately 8,000 incidents reported each year.
Over and gout
17th Jul 2007, 05:15
You would have to be going some to do a wheels up in a Cherokee Six:ok:
VH-BOX
17th Jul 2007, 07:27
This story has now been updated, it's now a lance apparently, which certainly makes more sense....
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=34592
ForkTailedDrKiller
17th Jul 2007, 08:21
"We get 7500 to 8000 occurrances reported each year and we only have the resources to investigate 80 of those"
That's forty (40) "occurrances" of the seriousness of a wheels up landing or worse each week !!!!!
Man you guys must be screwing up badly out there cause I have only racked up one (1) such "occurrance" (no, not a wheels up!) every 10 years for the last 3 decades!
Dr:cool:
squawk6969
17th Jul 2007, 08:28
Maybe they include locust strikes in that figure:rolleyes:
SQ
It is just as well it landed on the underbelly, it could have been really nasty had it been the top belly. :)
Atlas Shrugged
17th Jul 2007, 23:45
That's forty (40) "occurrances" of the seriousness of a wheels up landing or worse each week !!!!!
Man you guys must be screwing up badly out there cause I have only racked up one (1) such "occurrance" (no, not a wheels up!) every 10 years for the last 3 decades!
Hmmm......me too. Only ever had one gear "malfunction" in 14 years which turned out to be a non-event anyway, two seperate engine failures, a blown tyre and a busted rudder cable and that's about it.
40 per week...seems a bit of an overestimation
QNH1013.2
17th Jul 2007, 23:52
The 40 per week includes the flight crew spilling coffee on their shirt.