Qantaslink Dash 8 nose gear up landing
 

This just in..

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001021,00.html

ok, i'll kick off with the 'slagging' and blame it on the cadets:E.

;)

I'll blame alan joyce's wife.

Was it a Q400 or 100/200/300 series dash?

Dunno, i can't find anything more about it at the moment. Apparently it happened around 9pm last night.

I have a mate here who works on Q400's on weekends. He puckered when he saw this as well hehe.

I don't think Qantaslink has any 100's though.

Well on a positive note well done to the crew involved. I dont know all the details and wont speculate but if they seemed to circle the airport then they obviously did all they could with a successful outcome.

Congratulations :D

Can we just combine the SAS thread and blame it on the Swiss?:}



'scuse me...please continue...

Could be a few tricky questions to answer if it is a Q400, but then the SAS problems were not nose wheel related...


As lofty as the journalistic credentials of the Daily Tele are, something not quite right with the report.

Agree about SAS however Air Nippon had a Q400 land with nose gear retracted in Japan last March.

Cheers

Yep they still do! although being replaced

Wynsock, I think you might be correct about the Telegraph article. According to SMH, they actually got the nose wheel down and "landed without incident"

http://news.smh.com.au/landing-gear-...0220-1tap.html

Yet another example of pathetic journalism! The gear was down with three greens BEFORE the a/c experienced a hydraulic malfunction. The a/c still landed with ALL three gears in the down and locked positions.

Hang on a minute, is there a story here at all?

Eighteen passengers, nerve wracking blah blah...

(a) crew was forced to use a back-up system to lower its nose wheel before making an emergency landing.

or is it this one?

(b) their plane malfunctioned and was forced to make an emergency landing without its nose wheel.


or

(c) there is no story.

The Daily Telegraph / Courier Mail for Journalism at its finest.:hmm:

There is also the media beat up technique in adding reference to a totally unrelated Qantas incident. Lucky the journalist didn't know that I recently avoided a bad landing in slipping on a piece of lettuce in a Qantas Club.

or was the headline "QANTAS Heavy landings and Food Scare cause significant drops in passengers"

There was a Q400 with its right hand engine cowl up in Rocky this morning

its because of 1989 i think

Pilot checking water level in radiator on pre flight.

seems like the Dash 8 has problems left and right.... after the problem with the main landing gear, now it's the nose... :ugh:

CityofFlight

Well that's a bit unfair on the Swiss isn't it? You sure you don't mean the Swedes? ;)