Emergency landing at Moorabbin 1 April 2025

[red750]

A plane has been forced to make an emergency landing at Moorabbin Airport. 

A distress call sparked a huge emergency response. The pilot was unable to lock his landing gear meaning it could be forced to make a belly landing and to lower the fire risk the plane circled the airport for at least 45 minutes burning off fuel. Now while that was happening fire crews sprayed the runway with foam. The aircraft, a Piper Arrow, eventually made a safe landing in the foam, the undercarriage holding in place.

[facthunter]

Bit of money spent there. Obviously the Gear WAS down and LOCKED. Problem Just Indication??   Nev

[Love to fly]

Interestingly, there was a similar incident last Friday. Aircraft waited for services before landing. No foam laid though. One runway was already closed for maintenance, and airport closed for about 40 minutes while they waited for fire brigade. ATC were great, monitoring as to how long oeople could hold before diverting to other airports. Plane landed uneventfully. 

[red750]

There was a trick with the Arrow that my instructor pulled on me. If certain switches were on, (can't rmember which, it was over 40 years ago), the three greens would dim so they looked like they were not on. Maybe that was his problem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[facthunter]

Know your aircraft. Nev

[Bosi72]

8 hours ago, red750 said:

There was a trick with the Arrow that my instructor pulled on me. If certain switches were on, (can't rmember which, it was over 40 years ago), the three greens would dim so they looked like they were not on. Maybe that was his problem.

It is Nav lights. Same is with Seminole.

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Always prefer false alarms to the real thing

 

[Moneybox]

It was interesting to see the Shark that was assembled in Perth for the advertising tour of Australia had little windows in the wings and the front floor so that you could see the gear was down. It also had three lights that changed from red to green confirming that the gear was locked in place. Mechanical release cables were included if all else failed.