Turkish Air force Transall - Emergency Landing

[RAFEngO74to09]

Lucky escape for motorists!

https://twitter.com/i/status/1750431173308760162

[treadigraph]

Looks pretty hairy all round - crew OK.

https://youtu.be/8U44suv7Awo?si=HxGwz_d-wKUDCDfE

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/351154

[Ninthace]

Is that called stretching the glide?

[dead_pan]

What happened next?? I can see it briefly going round the corner.

Also was it on a single engine? Hard to tell given the phone frame rate trickery.

[treadigraph]

Appears to have landed back on the airfield with an off-runway excursion. No left gear? Left wing is toast...

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/640x360/tk_c_160t_69_037_crash_kayseri_25jan24_640_20_281_29_0_59613 631071e98cab1065f86acb73010a216a881.jpg

[Ninthace]

If you can walk away . . .

[DaveReidUK]

Other than the 3 in Australia supposedly being converted to water-bombers, this appears to be the only surviving airworthy Transall.

Or was, anyway ...

[SLXOwft]

This video of a Transall landing normally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ0bOV4hmY8 shows a hell of a lot more flap and probably (frame rate issues permitting) a lot more power; given it was returning due to a technical issue, there may have been some impressive airmanship involved in getting it down relatively safely.

[Less Hair]

Good flying for sure. They slipped through tall buildings during the pattern on what was maybe one engine mostly lost.

https://twitter.com/Ttltlg/status/1750457516746572045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembe d%7Ctwterm%5E1750457516746572045%7Ctwgr%5Ef238c0d1e50fe37dd2 5a17c95cf11186a7009bca%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheaviationist.com%2F2024%2F01%2F25%2F c-160d-emergency-landing-turkey%2F​​​​​​​

[sandringham1]

What happened next?? I can see it briefly going round the corner.

Also was it on a single engine? Hard to tell given the phone frame rate trickery.


Right at the beginning of the clip you can see tip vortices off the RH prop, not so on the LH.

[fdr]

Good flying for sure. They slipped through tall buildings during the pattern on what was maybe one engine mostly lost.

Maybe.


VVV

The LH engine appears to be at low power, and moving slowly towards feather, the rudder is neutral, the aircraft is rolling slowly left but has right roll aileron applied. The story will be interesting. Not hitting buildings and soft furry things may be from good planning or from being lucky.

[sycamore]

Looks very much like a `fail to feather fully`and brake,as it was rotating on touchdown,bent tip..I think the a.c has `spoilers` for roll control as well,so not too much aileron to prevent drag/loss of lift.Whatever,good bit of aviating to get it down`safely`..

[albatross]

At least they avoided the Hospital, Orphanage and “cute puppy kennel”.
Well done in what appears to have been a bad situation.

As a friend once told me when describing a fascinating flight in a DC-3 on skis when they had an engine failure on take off when “Fully Loaded” and the failed engine did not fully feather: “We ran out of airspeed, power, altitude, options and good ideas simultaneously! We were very, very lucky.”

[bunta130]

C-160 single engine performance was dire. Remember pulling one back for practise to flight idle at training weights out of Wunstorf (not far above MSL) on a 23 degree OAT day. Climb rate of less than 300FPM….

Would have been very interesting indeed had we been loaded, higher and hotter…

[Less Hair]

This was some electronics subvariant with heavier weight equipment.