Metroliner Wheels Up Landing YBBN
 

Metroliner on a test flight made a wheels up landing at YBBN a couple of hours ago.

Landed on RWY19, 2 POB, All ok.

RWY19/01 NAVBL until further notice. Intl Aircraft inbound to YBBN most likely to divert to alternate airports due RWY closed.

Aircraft still located on RWY awaiting salvage crane.

No further information at this stage ...

Uzw or Uzs ?

All back to normal now. As normal as it gets.

Imagine what it will be like when 14/32 gets closed in a few months and this sort of thing happens during peak hour:uhoh:

You can't be serious that they've closed the runway, and aircraft are diverting!

For years I've been told they'll bulldoze the wreck, or I can land over it, or land on a taxiway, so therefore don't need enough fuel for plan-B.

Shocked, I am :oh:

Sorry Claret,

Was it a 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 to which you received for 'commercial awareness'?? :yuk::=

It wasn't a test flight. Don't start that speculation before news.com start reading this forum.

Anyone notice anything wrong already with the 'facts' above?

Very strange.

A metro has a very good undercarriage and backup system. You'd be hard pressed to have it jam up that is for sure.

Once you release the uplocks it uses gravity and air loads to extend and lock. You rarely even need the hand pump except to place some hydraulic pressure in the line.

UZA straight out of maintenance..

Hmm lets' see

"Light plane"

"landed on its undercarriage"?



I haven't read "Cessna" yet..:ugh:


I read one comment on the Courier Mail site - "Why wasn't the spare runway near the sea used for this little plane?":ok:

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Good question. If it was a planned gear-up landing someone should be providing an answer as to why 14 was not used.

If it was not a planned gear-up landing, well ...........

Maybe the conditions were not conducive to using 14/32?

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601,


I have used RWY 14 before and if my wheels were broken there is no way that I would conduct a wheels up on RWY 14 in a Q400 if a much bigger (and wider) RWY was available next to it.

Granted the 'deathpencil' is a bit smaller than the 400, but in the same situation I would be demanding 01/19 over 14/32.

A much bigger RWY, a much wider RWY - therefore a safer RWY for a wheels up. I'll be damned if Im going to compromise the safety of myself and others on board (more than it is already), just for the convenience of other inbound aircraft when Amberley and Gold Coast are only a few mins away for them.

Good decision by the pilot to use 01/19 in my opinion.


Eternity.

No flaps, no gear in the middle of the night on the smaller runway - you're kidding yourself thinking runway 14 should have been used.

Why? Worried about an overrun?

Flack jacket on! :}

Krusty, maybe that should be overslide.

Pilots call as to which rwy to use but unless the prevailing winds where way off the mark for rwy 14 surely 14 would have been long enuf for a planed slide along the black stuff.


'FTS' yeah I too noticed the odd comment..."Light plane landed on it's U/C at 2:30 am" ........if it had done just that then we'd have zip to talk about here:)


Wmk2

Dents polished out and back in service tomorrow?

Toll polish stuff? :E:}
Seriously, glad they're okay. Must have been a bit hair raising at the time!
You'd probably end up being thrown into a gulag by the ATSB for hindering an investigation. At least this would protect you from the operator's insurer who also would be hunting you down.

The days of dealing with unserviceable aircraft on the runway by chucking a rope around the nose wheel and hauling them off with a tractor are long gone.