Fokker 100 gear-up landing at Stuttgart
 

Reported on Yahoo, apparently a Contact Air Fokker 100 landed gear-up, airport closed until approx. 1600 UTC.

edit: various websites state that only the main gear was not extended, no info on that.

Jet makes emergency landing at Stuttgart airport, Germany
 

AP just reports:

STUTTGART, Germany – A passenger jet made an emergency landing at Germany's Stuttgart airport on Monday, but there were no significant injuries, airport authorities and a passenger said.
The Fokker 100, which was on an internal flight from Berlin's Tegel airport, had problems with its landing gear, the airport said on its Web site.
It said five passengers suffered shock and a stewardess was taken to a hospital for observation.
Among those on board was Franz Muentefering, the chairman of one of Germany's governing parties, the center-left Social Democrats.
"It was a very serious situation," Muentefering said in a statement released by his party. "We circled for a long time, attempted the approach and then had to make an emergency landing."
"All remained uninjured," Muentefering said, thanking the plane's captain for a "masterly performance."
The airport's runway was closed temporarily.

Built 1995 but just 3 weeks with Contact Air.

In the EI-DON landing last year the pilots did not even realize something was amiss until they saw they couldn't taxi under their own power anymore:eek:

PS: don;t the smaller planes carry an onboard high-tech emergency remote gear activation system, aka poking stick, to unjam the damn thing?

Glad to see that Mr Müntefering travels on a public plane... :oh:

Where's all that taxpayers money gone ? blankety blank already ??

I would have expected that a bloke of his position would travel in a Hansa Jet or an old Falcon, at least...

Anyway, sad for the bird, I somehow liked the F100...

For now a very nice job by the crew for landing the aircraft without serious injuries to pax or crew!

However i am curious to why the landing gear would not go down, especially with the freefall backup system apparantely not working either which i would find troublesome at first glance. We'll probably find out more in a couple of weeks/months with a preliminary report.

Landed on downsloping 07, also favourable for the wind today...

I would say that Mr Muentefering gave a good comment about the situation not giving the media an overexcited quote they can misuse. However i would not have opted to go to the beer festival afterwards myself... politicians! ;-)

Not the first ( nor last time) the F28 "family" suffers gear problems.
A rather more common event than on comparable types. :hmm:

Captplaystation is dead on target.

When I worked out of Schiphol we got so used to F100/ 70 and F28 gear collapses - usually the starboard gear - or stuck gear - that it became a non-event.

So often does this (continue to) happen that there is very clearly, a design or maint related 'issue'.

one wonders how, two decades into this history, it has not been solved.

But then you could say the same about the F50 auto prop feather/reverse system that has recently casued yet another fatal accident.

Other than such foibles, lovely planes and we swore by them (rather than at them) in Africa...

Müntefering is Party Chairman and Member of Parliament, but does not hold any public office.

That's not true. From the crash report:

'The crew of a KD Avia Boeing 737-300, registration EI-DON declared emergency after an unsafe gear indication. A low pass confirmed that the gear was not deployed.'

ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-3Y0 EI-DON Kaliningrad-Khrabrovo Airport (KGD)

this also, from the beeb
BBC NEWS | Europe | German plane makes fiery landing

Accident video on youtube:
YouTube - SPD-Chef Müntefering an Bord der Unglücksmaschine- Das dramatische Video der Notlandung

Fair enough, cheers Twoonefour and sorry Vovachan.

Quote:
What a load of rubbish. I've flown this type (and the F70) for the last 8 years, amassing about 4,000 hours in the process. In that time I have never had any gear related problems, neither do I recall any problems throughout the company fleet (slightly over 40 aircraft). Design/common problem? I don't think so. A multitude of other (minor) problems possibly but gear? No.

Have to agree with F100 driver. I've also got about 4,000 hours on the type (probably on the same fleet, but a few years earlier), and never came across any gear sticking/collapsing problems, nor heard about any.

I agree as well. I have flown it for about twelve years (probably with the same company as 'Driver') and never had so much as a glitch with the gear- other than the Landing Gear Doorlock Switch warning (which is a non-event- a sensor error basically).

12 years on F100 as an LAE, only heard of one other gear related problem, from an engineer colleague on EU jet. Apparently one MLG hung up following a hangar input, engineering advice to crew- "Carry out a heavy landing!". Apparently it worked! I know a lot of LAEs on the F100 and I've heard no bad things about the F100 gear.

Unless you lot aren't booking gear-up landings?!