Incident at Essendon 13/12/2016

[biggles]

Royal Flying Doctor plane skids 500m after wheel collapses on landing

[bexrbetter]

Well I hope their plane is confiscated and crushed for doing "skids".

 

 

[planesmaker]

Maybe a Cessna doing skids compliance

 

 

[kaz3g]

Well I hope their plane is confiscated and crushed for doing "skids".

I just knew you would slip in something controversial here...kaz

 

 

[bexrbetter]

I just knew you would slip in something controversial here...kaz

Well I'm extremely disappointed if I'm becoming readable, I'll have to try harder.

 

Was humour by the way, not controversy, I'll add a next time ...

 

 

[David2ayo]

The article has a classic statement " "We were lucky that when the plane did stop it was in its final part of slowing down," he said."

 

Now, I'm a bit confused how an aircraft of any size can be taxiing, (which infers slow speed) have a wheel collapse and skid for half a kilometer. The other bit of a gem is the "unrelated" incident mentioned at the end of the article in Moomba SA on Tuesday. Fortunately the final report won't be written by a journalist.

 

 

[facthunter]

If an aircraft undercarriage survives the actual initial contact, which is the BIG load and then retracts as you are slowing down, it's a fairly unusual event unless.... the gear doesn't stay locked. Nev

 

 

[Bruce Tuncks]

The flying doctor sure has expensive planes these days. I remember them operating with pommy Dragon Rapides out of Alice Springs town strip. One day, one of these failed to become airbourne when departing Hermannsburg. They had to use pommy planes because Bob Menzies was an anglophile.I don't know what the temperature and density altutude was, but they might have been extreme.

 

I reckon a 2 engined big Jabiru would be a good plane for them. Fixed U/C and made in Australia.

 

 

[facthunter]

Australia is a big place . You need speed and pressurisation to get over the weather and out of the heat. Nev

 

 

[kaz3g]

Was humour by the way, not controversy, ...

Me too

 

Kaz