Atlanta Area Emergency landing

[Utah_Viper]

I was watchin Fox new this morning and go to watch a really sweet emergency landing. it was a 2 turbo prop aircraft and the pilot had to bring it in on the belly.... did anyone in that area get to listen in?

 

[CapStar362]

when did this happen and at what airport?

i didnt hear of anything of this sort!

 

[FreqMgr]

CNN.com has a video clip of it. "More News" section at the top of the page, "A perfect emergency landing."

 

[CapStar362]

i just saw it on FOX5 in ATL.

KFTY: Fulton County "Charlie Brown" Airport


VERY NICE Landing..... even kept the plane aligned with the centerline of the runway..... THATS HARD TO DO WITH NO WHEELS!!

 

[mjw357]

VERY NICE Landing..... even kept the plane aligned with the centerline of the runway..... THATS HARD TO DO WITH NO WHEELS!!

Actually, it's very hard to do with 2 out of 3 wheels. Pretty easy with none, like sliding across a sheet of ice.

 

[AngelFire91]

Yeah the keeping it on the centerline thing is fairly easy with no wheels, it's actually probably eaiser then with wheels. Now, the really amazing thing that I saw was he shut the engines down before he touched down saving the Props. The belly of most aircraft are designed to withstand a no gear landing but by him shutting down the engines he saved whoever owns that plane a lot of money to replace the props. Props are not cheap, not to mention if the props are spinning when you touch down chances are you would have to do a full engine and mount rebuild. I noticed he came in a little bit faster then normal so he could shut them down early in the flair. I'm not sure that I would have ever thought of that if I was in the situation. I was very impressed with the smoothness also, I would think the passengers didn't even know they landed except for the loud scrapping sound.

All in all, I was very impressed and whoever hired him to fly that needs to give him a raise.

 

[tiggermanh]

From the video it looks like the props were saved, but probably not. If one fin of the props were ground down, they'll replace them all.

You are correct though, by having the engines off on landing, it kep them from having to rebuild the internals of the engine and check the engine mounts thoroughly for stress damage.

A friend of mine is a AMP and has told me a number of stories of not soo good landings of planes he has had to repair.