Bournemouth closed
 

Happened about 45 minutes ago:

from the local paper website, UPDATED: Emergency landing at Bournemouth Airport (From Bournemouth Echo)

A LIGHT aircraft has made an emergency crash landing at Bournemouth Airport.
The four seater Duchess aircraft came down a few moments ago.
Breakdown recovery man Jon Parham, 37, was on his way to a job when he saw the plane coming down.
He said: "It was coming in for landing. One wheel at the back right hand of the plane hadn't come down.
"There were already police and fire engines waiting for the plane. It approached normally, coming in pretty slow, touched down and then as it lost balance, did a half spin and came to an abrupt stop.
"There was no smoke or fire or sparks, but three blokes jumped out straight away and ran like hell.
"It was pretty scary, I was just hoping it was going to land okay."
The plane is still in the middle of the runway, which has been closed.
Police were alerted that the plane was in trouble by air traffic control at 10.26. The plane is thought to have circled the runway to run down its fuel before landing.
Parley Lane was closed between Chapel Gate and Hurn Bridge as a precaution and to stop drivers being distracted.
The road is now reopened.

It was a PAT dutchess, towed it straight to maintenance. Looked like it only had 1 propellor left.

It was me flying it... and it certainly still had two propellers when I got out of it.

As far as we know, a failure of the oleo meant that on rotation the weight of the wheel did not extend the oleo fully, as it normally would. Because of this, on gear retraction, the wheel did not retract into its normal place in the wheel well. This caused it to get stuck, and neither the normal nor the emergency gear extension, nor any amount of manoeuvring, would free it.

Fortunately, there seems to have been very little damage. The flap and the wing tip are both scratched, and the footstep will have to be replaced.

And all the crew at Bournemouth deserve a mention for the fantastic, professional way they attended to us, and also the speed with which the aircraft was removed so the airport could be re-opened.

FFF
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Yep and well done to you Mr D good effort all round . Certainly looked like both propelleors were there when it arrived at Maintenance . I fear RTN may be from another establishment close by and will have a similar slant to the media , ie what ya dont know make up

Well done FFF!

I can't imagine someone better able to handle such a situation than you. Well done :ok:

No so dippy then Dean, fantastic job and very well done, a shame the ploy to get rid of the Italian section didn't work. Next time can you take 'The Fonz' with you.

FFF, Did you stop the engine before touch down?

DP - Cheers! How are you mate?

Bose-x, yes I did. Both engines shut down at the start of the flare.

FFF
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I've flown with PAT. Nice a/c nice organisation.

Which ol' Duch is in A&E tonight?

Sir George Cayley

Sir George.....

Aircraft involved was G-TWNN, a very nice Duchess. With any luck it'll be back flying soon thanks to some fantastic piloting by Dean. Could have been a disaterous, potentially fatal, situation very easily!

What muppet thought they saw a prop missing??? Those Class 1 eyes may need a re-test!

2W2R :ok:

Didn't this A/C have an U/C failure a while ago (nosewheel)?

It did yes , on my cpl test :eek:
It was an unconnected problem though , gear came down with manual extension

Nice. Good solution thinking.

Well done.