The only way to fly fixed wing…
 

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These photos were taken last week, near Whitehorse in the Yukon… I was flying another helicopter carrying the engineer and load master tasked with recovering the plane

There appears to be netting under the aeroplane's wings. Is that to stabilise it ?

We had to put nets over the wings to diffuse the lift of the wings, it was attached at 3 points one of them was the jack point above the cockpit and the other two were on the tail plane, ideally (I am told) that you want the aero plane to fly 5 degrees nose down. So after some head scratching, and help from Pythagoras we worked it out

What type of fixed wing aircraft is that (looks like a Beaver with a turbine engine, if there's such an animal).

Also, was it just a gear collapse on a rough runway, or something else.

I think is a beaver with a Walter engine (empty weight 5500 lbs)... I don’t really want to speculate on what happened but lets just say it was a hard landing and then the pilot was taxiing to back track and line up on the runway… as he turned the landing gear collapsed, striking the prop and the wing

Bit big for a Beaver, I think it's gotter be an Otter.

You are more than likely right… all fixed wing look that same to me, I didn’t ask to many questions (except how much dose it weigh and has it been de-fueled)

Too many passenger windows to be a Beav.

We used four by four timbers on top of the wings as spoilers...that works a treat too....until one of them falls off and the opposite wing's "spoiler" remains for the ride.

Can you say "Left Turn, Clyde!":{