Dash 8 lost wheel report out. (Exeter).

[Flyingmac]

http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/DHC-8-402%20Dash%208,%20G-JEDR%2011-11.pdf

[Rollingthunder]

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51529000/jpg/_51529948_wheel1.jpg

I'd be having a meeting with the Mtce crew....no tea.....no biscuits.

[captplaystation]

I'd like to have a post disembarkation de-brief with the SLF and ask them what they were waiting for. . . . the landing ? out of curiosity to see how it panned out. ? :rolleyes:

Of course the time scale could have been very short, between take-off & the crew being notified by ATC that they had left something behind, but I would have thought most pax would have seen fit to alert the CC P.D.Q, after one of these round black things was seen flying off. :eek:

[FlightlessParrot]

Long ago in Australia, a Friendship took off. A little old lady saw a wheel fall off, and alerted an FA. "No, dear, it's alright. They're meant to do that," she was told, on the assumption that she was confused about u/c retraction. It was only when a girl of 12, a few rows further forward, shouted that a wheel did fall off, that they took it seriously. Think it was an Ansett flight in Tasmania, 1970s, but could be wrong.

[Mad (Flt) Scientist]

I'd like to have a post disembarkation de-brief with the SLF and ask them what they were waiting for. . . . the landing ? out of curiosity to see how it panned out. ? :rolleyes:

Of course the time scale could have been very short, between take-off & the crew being notified by ATC that they had left something behind, but I would have thought most pax would have seen fit to alert the CC P.D.Q, after one of these round black things was seen flying off. :eek:

Maybe the pax concerned had been lurking here on PPrune and had seen some of the posts by the more 'exalted' occupants of the pointy end who appear to believe that even the CC have no business 'interfering' in their progression through the sky, never mind the unwashed who ultimately pay their wages. They may have decided 'no one will listen to me anyway, I'll just sit here and shut up'.

(Recognizing that by no means all, or even the majority of, pilots retain such attitudes, and with tongue somewhat in cheek)

[john_tullamarine]

Think it was an Ansett flight in Tasmania, 1970s, but could be wrong.

Can't recall any tales of a wheel departing around that time. However, I do recall, as the F/O on the particular flight, having the starboard inboard tyre shred itself to death on takeoff out of MEL in the mid-70s .. perhaps that is the basis for your recollection ?

A few pax were a little anxious about the impending outcome ... which, as one would expect, was routine in the extreme. I guess that the time spent burning down to MLW might have been a tad irritating.

[Shiny side down]

It's made the news!
Daily mirror*. 11/11/11. Page23.
Something about the pilot battling the jet!

Er...
Maybe tomorrow, there'll be something about R101




*without protesting too much. It's not my rag of choice. I pinched it!

[lynn789]

re arrogance, we may recall the pilot who sitting as a pax saw the flaps werent down on take off but made no attempt to warn pilot as it would be a gross breach of etiquette on his part
it crashed:(

[Tinribs]

A long time ago

As a tiger moth departs a wheel is seen to drop off, no radio

Another club member runs accross the field picks up the wheel and with a fellow club member in the front of a second club tiger chases after the first aircraft

Flying alongside the first tiger our helping hero stands up to display the errant wheel. His aircraft has been serviced by the same engineer who used the same faulty technique so he too is now on one wheel

First pilot to student "very clever now watch them put it back on"

An event on landing