How many in that Navajo?
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How many in that Navajo?
The CBC is reporting:
CBC News - Manitoba - Belly landing in Manitoba ruins plane
Which includes the detail:
"including the pilot and passengers — nine adults and four children "
In an aircraft whose FAA Type Certificate Data Sheet decribes it as being limited to eight occupants total?
Sounds like something more than just a wheels up landing deserves investigation....
CBC News - Manitoba - Belly landing in Manitoba ruins plane
Which includes the detail:
"including the pilot and passengers — nine adults and four children "
In an aircraft whose FAA Type Certificate Data Sheet decribes it as being limited to eight occupants total?
Sounds like something more than just a wheels up landing deserves investigation....
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As reported in the Calgary Herald.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Pi...173/story.html
"Pascal was aboard a Piper Navajo Chiefton (sic) with 12 other passengers..."
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Pi...173/story.html
"Pascal was aboard a Piper Navajo Chiefton (sic) with 12 other passengers..."
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If each of the 6 seats had an "alleged infant" sitting on their lap, you could do it! Used to see a lot of that going on in "the islands mon". Maybe they do it in Manitoba too.!)
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Piper Chieftan Pa31-350 has 10 seats. One pilot and 9 passengers. Or 2 pilots and 8 passengers. Used to fly one in Northern Saskatchewan often had all 10 plus several infants. Not saying it was smart but it was legal if the weight worked. I seem to remember that there was no Zero fuel weight. Short trips it could be done.
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RCMP confirmed the pilot failed to deploy the landing gear and was forced to make a belly landing.
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...just thinking out loud on this one...
If the pilot made a number of attempts to extend the landing gear (normally, by gravity or manually) and those attempts were unsuccessful, what would he be FORCED to do?
a) do nothing
b) ask someone on the frequency if they had any ideas
c) have one of the passengers try to get the gear down, or
d) land with the gear up before he ran out of fuel
just wondering.
Willie
If the pilot made a number of attempts to extend the landing gear (normally, by gravity or manually) and those attempts were unsuccessful, what would he be FORCED to do?
a) do nothing
b) ask someone on the frequency if they had any ideas
c) have one of the passengers try to get the gear down, or
d) land with the gear up before he ran out of fuel
just wondering.
Willie
