The actual cause of this incident was a cracked end cap on one of the hydraulic actuators on the main landing gear assemblies. Given that the hydraulic system on the Beech is a single loop systems, any rupture or leak in the system will result on complete loss of pressure. Any effort to lower the gear using the manual pump handle was pointless because the fluid was just being pumped out through the leak in the actuator. Normally the gear is lowered electrically using the electrical power pack
@KSharp320 Yes. The nature of the failure and system design prevented manual extension from working. They tried. They were also in radio contact with maintenance engineers to discuss the problem while they burned off fuel before landing.
@Kahu1958 Do you know what the failure was? Center bus plus loss of accumulator pressure maybe? I've had a gear issue with the 1900 but not a failure of both normal and manual systems
now that is how you land an aircraft without the gear. great job to whomever was behind the controls. landing like that can save the airlines alot of money in fixing the plane and save a ton of lives at the sametime. but im just glad i dont have to be the one to repaint the bottomside
So many experts on here. Hey guys, great job with the landing. It was soft and nicely done. You get many pats on the back from me and disregard all these so called experts on you tube.
Hey Lega... you're the asshole. Too right, there are no flight attendants on any aircraft with 19 seats or less. 1 FA is required for 20-31 seater aircraft, another FA for every 12 seats after that. Dickhead. Know what you're talking about before being a rude prick...
My observations: (1) I'd've landed on the turf to minimize structural damage and keep the runway free, (2) the engines will be okay as long as they're free-turbines, and (3) what a way to go! Hose down the passengers as they escape. But all in all...nice job!
@bmxdavenz . If a pilot thinks an aircraft has any kind of defect he should report it. I doubt very much that that company would fly an aircraft that had not been properly repaired aligned and tested.
@Kahu1958 I use to fly a plane that had been in crash landing. It was perfectly safe to fly, but you could always notice that it flew it a bit differently than it use to.
@spetnik You dont want to skid on soft grass at 200km/h; you tend to dig in rather harshly. Things get ripped off, parts and planes start tumbling. All nasty stuff. Bitumen is smooth, hard and consistent. A good example is a motorbike rider who falls off, they slide nice until they hit the dirt, then bones start getting broken.
@nrcsst lol not necessarily true....i once got dragged behind a quad on grass at top speed. long story.but i didnt break anything just a sore stomach and ripped clothes :P
@Kahu1958 hey asshole the ones you call "cool passengers who climb out then wait to help others" are not passengers but flight attendants trained for that and who are doing their job...
@Kahu1958 Correction. Thinking won't get it....they should know F.A.R. 121-135 rules & regulations, what's required, what's not, and that specific company's rules and practice is b4 posting. But then again, you can't expect everyone to know this stuff.
"Sorry mates we won't be using the airstair today. All passengers please carefully hop out the door for a slight drop. Thank you for flying with us on Air New Zealand."
one question , this is a turbo prop aircraft, so then where the heck are the propellers, ??? but this is an amazing landing... i agree with Poosanta ...
@MrDomnicdias . It had composite propellor blades and that broke off as soon as they touched the ground. it was quite spectaculer but no other damage was done by the blades.
@Kahu1958 Wow, so they didn't have to tear the engines down and rebuild them? maybe turbine is totally different than piston. My father had a gear up landing in a bonanza he and my mom had just finished restoring. It broke his heart and the airplane was a total loss.
@jallenmorris1 I do not know the exact details but I suspect the engines were stripped and inspected. It would be unwise not to. Turbines are quite different to piston engines as you say. the aircraft was repaired and returned to service, I often see it at the local airport.
@blind1709. Aircraft engines must be completely rebuilt in the event of a propellor strike regardless of whether the engine was stopped or running. Therefore, the choices are to either keep both engines running normally and avoid adding additional stressors to an existing emergency situation, or failure-feather-shutdown both engines on final, reducing power available to zero, second chances (go-arounds) to zero, and adding drag to destabilize the approach. They did the exact right thing.
If you can and dare, you shut down the engines and feather teh props. Even if your engines live, your prop pieces may enter the fuselage. I can't remember the std. procedure from my 1900C days but this would be my preferred way of doing a gear up landing in any prop aircraft. After 15 years I can still remember the enormous BANG of just the freshly re-glued (little did we know :-) prop deice boot hitting the fuselage of our 1900C. Still, I'll find-out about the procedure ... curious.
I know nothing about flying, so be kind, but I always wondered why it was that wheels up landings were done on the runway? It seems to me that dirt & grass would cause less friction,less mess on the runway and would absorb fuel if it leaked out? The other thing is why aren't the underbellies of all planes designed with skids, like the German WW2 Komet had, for just this kind of unhappy incident. At least the plane's bottom would be spared damage?
@briquetaverne. Even experts argue about which surface is preferable for a wheels up landing. Smaller aircraft are fine on grass, with larger aircraft there is a risk that they will dig in on the softer surface and possibly turn sideway and tear apart. They runway is more predictable. On the Beech 1900 the even when retracted the wheels are lowest points when the aircraft is level on the ground, after the touchdown with the nose high the aircraft rolls to a stop on is wheels.
@briquetaverne The debate is weather the aircrafts airframe is under less structural stress on a known flat surface than opposed to uneven ground that could cause the aircraft to come apart due to sudden impacts with the ground. The idea is to keep the airframe in tact there by keeping the occupants safer.
Standard aircraft practices for the 1900 require power on during landing to minimise further damage to the engines and aircraft. The props are composite and are designed to shatter on impact, turning the engines off and feathering the props just before landing is utter rubbish,
@Kahu1958 My goodness though....isn't there a chance of the sheared off props penetrating the fuselage? Damn saving the engines. X the engines....save the people. Just as in an auto rear end collision. When you know that you are about to be rear ended, you could minimize damage to your car by releasing the brakes so the car will move forward upon impact....but this would maximize impact to your neck and kill you. JAMB on the brakes in a rear end collsion. Let the car absorb the impact.
@JetMechMA . I spoke to engineers that had a close look at the plane after the crash and they said they could barely see where the blades hit the fuselage. The engines were shut down immediately after impact, but I see your point that there could have been problems preventing this. Control off the aircraft to the touchdown was paramount. According to an earlier post when feathering the engines prior to impact, in a simulator, the aircraft balooned up and went further down the runway, less contro
@Kahu1958 I see. I guess the pilots knew exactly what they were doing. Apparently they are well trained and they lived up to that training. Good for them.
@Kahu1958 You don't shear porps off the engines during a crash. B1900 require power during the approch phase until pretty much the last moment. B1900 are powered by PT6 engines, there is no direct connection between the props and the power plant hense, virtualy no damage in the case of a prop strike like a piston engine (engine shock gamage). Crash landing in the grass as a very high possibility of ending up in a cartwheel, it is always better to use a hard surface for an emergency approach.
@silverfox441 I agree with most of what you say. The props didn't shear off the engine but the prop blades sheared off the hub. The engines have a seperate turbine driving the compressor(engine) and one driving the prop. landing on grass does have its risks.
@Kahu1958 Besides, how can you be sure you will retain control over the engines AFTER the crash landing? An Airbus A340 ran for NINE hours after a ground accident once. They had to let it run out of fuel.
@gypsykingg Oh so you can talk can you? I suppose the only thing you fly is an armchair infront of a digital screen? Being a Kingair 200 F/O with 453hours behind the wheel, and 50hours flying the 1900D I can confirm that the checklist clearly calls for securing the engines after touchdown, that is, power on until touchdown. Once touched down the pilot not flying then begins the shutdown procedures.
Standard aircraft practices for the 1900 require power on during landing to minimise further damage to the engines and aircraft. The props are composite and are designed to shatter on impact, feathering the props just before landing is utter rubbish
This Aircraft was involved in another incident on Saturday flying from Gisbourne to Wellington, The pilot encountered a vibration as the front was lifting on take off and tought a tyre had blown, the Aircraft was Diverted from Wellington to (ironically) Blenheim so Wellington airport was free (bigger, Busier airport than Blenheim), # years and 1 day since this belly landing, I reckon this aircraft is jinxed and they should get rid of it, sell it to the aussies lol
@Sting3733 According the the Accident report, the First Officer shut down the engines just as the plane touched the ground - the propellers were going to come off anyway.
It's possible but its most likely that the pilot choose to leave the props windmilling (or at least that's what it looks like) to keep as much lift as possible to soften the landing. Without the landing gear he might not have felt comfortable landing with the props not spinning.
I was windering after that video, since it took half the runway to land that beechcraft...why not make better belly's on all aircraft and leave out the landing gears...then we can have shorter runways too oO
Nice landing - my Dad was a passenger on that one! It tried to land at Wellington during rush hour but couldn't get its landing gear down so went back across Cook Strait to Blenheim (Air Force) Base which was quieter and had an emergency team waiting for them. They got a free flight back to Wellington.
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if the pilot worked for me he would have just lost his job, over the nubers, condition levers to fuel cutoff, autofeather off and then manually pull both into feather..both those engines are now trash and there is a nice 900k-1.2mil bill waiting for new ones....
Then engines were running all the way onto the ground. Gear was jammed. Most commercial planes get pretty noisy if you "forget to put gear down" on an approach.
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Knowing the excellent reputation of Beechcraft (the most luxorious and expensive factory in the world for what concerns that kind of planes) I think the pilot simply forgot to deploy the landing gear. A very expensive mistake...
@poosanta The fire trucks are routed by ATC this is standard operation procedures and the dead prop is limiting flying debris, ig broken blades flying off and creating more structural damage to the aircraft and it's passengers. Safety is paramount.
I think on grass there is a greater risk of something digging into the ground and turning the plane and it is more likely to break up if it gets sideways, I may be wrong. This occurred in the middle of our winter.
No grass or soft ground gives way alot more than paved runway... ultimately less likely for damage and injuries and they may of even sprayed the grass down too prior... if they have a problem with an amphibian (floats/wheels) and can't land on water they also do this looking for grass...
Stupid question, but wouldnt he have been better off doing this on the grass, rather than a concrete runway? He would slide further, but less chance of a fire? idk
I do understand what you are saying, but on the spot at the time they did not know if it was going to burst into flame or not, and we do not know for certain that if they had not foamed it it would not have burst into flame.
Pretty much a freak acciddent for the hydraulic system to fail in such a way that both normal and emergency systems fail to operate, but it did. Should never happen again now that fault has been found.
lol click 0:09 lol
Stunnarex001 2 weeks ago
Those pilots deserve a nice cold beer
SuperPainball 1 month ago
This is why I always choose to fly with Air New Zealand whenever possible. They have exceptionally professional crew and pilots.
pubuman 1 month ago
that is air new zealand ae? where was that?
gangbenenno 2 months ago
@gangbenenno Blenheim Airport, in New Zealand.
Kahu1958 1 month ago
Great pilots, bravo!
bhsbass 2 months ago
The actual cause of this incident was a cracked end cap on one of the hydraulic actuators on the main landing gear assemblies. Given that the hydraulic system on the Beech is a single loop systems, any rupture or leak in the system will result on complete loss of pressure. Any effort to lower the gear using the manual pump handle was pointless because the fluid was just being pumped out through the leak in the actuator. Normally the gear is lowered electrically using the electrical power pack
tomcatter11 2 months ago
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Surprised a manual extension didn't work
KSharp320 4 months ago
Surprised a manual extension didn't work
KSharp320 4 months ago 2
@KSharp320 Yes. The nature of the failure and system design prevented manual extension from working. They tried. They were also in radio contact with maintenance engineers to discuss the problem while they burned off fuel before landing.
Kahu1958 4 months ago
@Kahu1958 Do you know what the failure was? Center bus plus loss of accumulator pressure maybe? I've had a gear issue with the 1900 but not a failure of both normal and manual systems
KSharp320 4 months ago
@KSharp320 . see TAIC Report 07-006, Hawker Beechcraft Corporation 1900D, ZK-EAK, landing gear
malfunction and subsequent wheels-up landing, Woodbourne Aerodrome, Blenheim,
18 June 2007 (TAIC= transport accident investigation commision)
Kahu1958 3 months ago
@Kahu1958 cheers
KSharp320 3 months ago
now that is how you land an aircraft without the gear. great job to whomever was behind the controls. landing like that can save the airlines alot of money in fixing the plane and save a ton of lives at the sametime. but im just glad i dont have to be the one to repaint the bottomside
derekwall25 4 months ago
So many experts on here. Hey guys, great job with the landing. It was soft and nicely done. You get many pats on the back from me and disregard all these so called experts on you tube.
CaptainArt777 4 months ago
lol i love the jokes at 1:10
DiamondPilotDan 5 months ago
Will the plane need a new paint job?
oracle2world 6 months ago in playlist @-- Airplane Crashes and Airshow Crashes
wow there are very cool pilots out there :)
xam107 6 months ago
hats off to the pilots
reddeerguy70 7 months ago
Like a boss
PennybagPedro 7 months ago
Maaan! he couldn´t done it better even with the gear down...great and soft landing...
Rockeroviejo 7 months ago
@Rockeroviejo lol
Niceboy3377 5 months ago
Nice job by everyone. Pilots got it down smoothly, passengers got doors opened and helped each, firemen put down foam to supress any fuel vapors.
bkymic 8 months ago
NICE JOB FIREMEN,SPRAYING WATER AT THE AIRCRAFT THE MOMENT THE DOOR OPENS...WIN!
ASIANINVASION49 9 months ago
NICE JOB FIREMEN,SPRAYING WATER AT THE AIRCRAFT THE MOMENT THE DOOR OPENS...WIN!
ASIANINVASION49 9 months ago
the pilot done a good job
warriorxp111 9 months ago
Hey Lega... you're the asshole. Too right, there are no flight attendants on any aircraft with 19 seats or less. 1 FA is required for 20-31 seater aircraft, another FA for every 12 seats after that. Dickhead. Know what you're talking about before being a rude prick...
coguhani 9 months ago
@coguhani That's incorrect. New Zealand CAA Rules state that the number of FAs required is:
None for 0-19pax
1 for 19-50pax
2 for 51-100 pax
etc etc
zktom 7 months ago
perfecto la cago wn genial
angelarayasilva 10 months ago
My observations: (1) I'd've landed on the turf to minimize structural damage and keep the runway free, (2) the engines will be okay as long as they're free-turbines, and (3) what a way to go! Hose down the passengers as they escape. But all in all...nice job!
SenorSpode 10 months ago
my friend john flies this plane. he says it is bent
bmxdavenz 10 months ago
@bmxdavenz . If a pilot thinks an aircraft has any kind of defect he should report it. I doubt very much that that company would fly an aircraft that had not been properly repaired aligned and tested.
Kahu1958 10 months ago 5
@Kahu1958 I use to fly a plane that had been in crash landing. It was perfectly safe to fly, but you could always notice that it flew it a bit differently than it use to.
JinxyRoflcopter 7 months ago
@Kahu1958 except southwest
boycoollike 5 months ago
@Kahu1958 You don't know too many companies do you :) They will do it, believe me.
NameWasInvalid 4 months ago
When did thia happen, I live in Nelson NZ and never hard anything about this.
TheJoshlis 10 months ago
@TheJoshlis . July 2007
Kahu1958 10 months ago
@Kahu1958 Cheerz
TheJoshlis 10 months ago
@Kahu1958 How could this have happened july 2007 when the vid was uploaed on june 2007?
nik0lhc 5 months ago
@Kahu1958 Wait, it happened July 2007 and this was uploaded June 2007.
wvhb44beardog 4 months ago
@wvhb44beardog . Yes I got it wrong, it was in June 2007, video was posted not long after it happened.
Kahu1958 4 months ago
Kudos to the crew, that was not bad at all. I've experienced gear down landings that were harder than that.
"Thank you for flying Air New Zealand, we trust you enjoyed your flight." lol
LateNightCable 10 months ago
Why didnt they land on the grass?
spetnik 1 year ago
@spetnik You dont want to skid on soft grass at 200km/h; you tend to dig in rather harshly. Things get ripped off, parts and planes start tumbling. All nasty stuff. Bitumen is smooth, hard and consistent. A good example is a motorbike rider who falls off, they slide nice until they hit the dirt, then bones start getting broken.
nrcsst 1 year ago 4
@nrcsst lol not necessarily true....i once got dragged behind a quad on grass at top speed. long story.but i didnt break anything just a sore stomach and ripped clothes :P
STBXMediaX 3 months ago
i know what happened to the fire man so awkward and weird but GOOD LANDING PILOT!!
fineamy2000 1 year ago
what happened to the firemen at 1:22!
gearfinger 1 year ago
where is this at? CA? but sounds like people talk with accent
tatyanatc 1 year ago
@tatyanatc . Blenheim, New Zealand.
Kahu1958 1 year ago
@Kahu1958 hey asshole the ones you call "cool passengers who climb out then wait to help others" are not passengers but flight attendants trained for that and who are doing their job...
legaonedevilna 9 months ago
@legaonedevilna . Don't be an offensive idiot. They don't have flight attendants on these Beech 1900 passenger aircraft. Think before you post
Kahu1958 9 months ago
@Kahu1958 Correction. Thinking won't get it....they should know F.A.R. 121-135 rules & regulations, what's required, what's not, and that specific company's rules and practice is b4 posting. But then again, you can't expect everyone to know this stuff.
FujiR500 7 months ago
best pilot!
8martie 1 year ago
that was beautiful has to be a pretty experienced pilot he was either cool as a cucumber or they has to pry his hands off the wheel!!!!!
ryan1977ify 1 year ago
congratulations to the pilot !!!
Luccas881 1 year ago
@chrisAperkins no damage is done to the engine only the prop, so if you turn off the prop, you minimize prop damage
MultiCessnaPilot 1 year ago
Very nice, loved it
ahmedab84 1 year ago
incridible pilot skills and composure.
AviAeroAsis 1 year ago
"Sorry mates we won't be using the airstair today. All passengers please carefully hop out the door for a slight drop. Thank you for flying with us on Air New Zealand."
poexxope 1 year ago
lol at 0:09 it sounds like someone is saying fuck.
TheRetardedAstronaut 1 year ago
one question , this is a turbo prop aircraft, so then where the heck are the propellers, ??? but this is an amazing landing... i agree with Poosanta ...
MrDomnicdias 1 year ago
@MrDomnicdias . It had composite propellor blades and that broke off as soon as they touched the ground. it was quite spectaculer but no other damage was done by the blades.
Kahu1958 1 year ago
@Kahu1958 Wow, so they didn't have to tear the engines down and rebuild them? maybe turbine is totally different than piston. My father had a gear up landing in a bonanza he and my mom had just finished restoring. It broke his heart and the airplane was a total loss.
jallenmorris1 1 year ago
@jallenmorris1 I do not know the exact details but I suspect the engines were stripped and inspected. It would be unwise not to. Turbines are quite different to piston engines as you say. the aircraft was repaired and returned to service, I often see it at the local airport.
Kahu1958 1 year ago
Actually you can see he under power on one engine only PORT side.t
James1toknow 1 year ago
Everyone walked away. Good landing.
rsclkng 1 year ago
Lol the fire guys sprayed it with water after they open the door!
madzane94 1 year ago
Pssh, Your lucky to walk away from all landings.. what makes this so special :D
madzane94 1 year ago
Nice landing, although he probably could of salvaged at least 1 of the Turbo Props had he feathered them on the flair.
blind1709 1 year ago
@blind1709. Aircraft engines must be completely rebuilt in the event of a propellor strike regardless of whether the engine was stopped or running. Therefore, the choices are to either keep both engines running normally and avoid adding additional stressors to an existing emergency situation, or failure-feather-shutdown both engines on final, reducing power available to zero, second chances (go-arounds) to zero, and adding drag to destabilize the approach. They did the exact right thing.
ChrisAPerkins 1 year ago
Amazing landing!
rohanA380 1 year ago
Virtual cookie for the pilot! Nice landing!
PMDGFlyer 1 year ago
perfect soft field landing!
riddlebrandan 1 year ago
heads up to pilot!!
manisha8780 1 year ago
@manisha8780 *hats off*
thekaizer666 1 year ago
air newzeland "are staff has nothing to hide"
datafreak667 1 year ago
Those pilots make this look easy!! Great job
FSXflyer1143 1 year ago
If you can and dare, you shut down the engines and feather teh props. Even if your engines live, your prop pieces may enter the fuselage. I can't remember the std. procedure from my 1900C days but this would be my preferred way of doing a gear up landing in any prop aircraft. After 15 years I can still remember the enormous BANG of just the freshly re-glued (little did we know :-) prop deice boot hitting the fuselage of our 1900C. Still, I'll find-out about the procedure ... curious.
guppiebugs 1 year ago
I know nothing about flying, so be kind, but I always wondered why it was that wheels up landings were done on the runway? It seems to me that dirt & grass would cause less friction,less mess on the runway and would absorb fuel if it leaked out? The other thing is why aren't the underbellies of all planes designed with skids, like the German WW2 Komet had, for just this kind of unhappy incident. At least the plane's bottom would be spared damage?
briquetaverne 1 year ago
@briquetaverne. Even experts argue about which surface is preferable for a wheels up landing. Smaller aircraft are fine on grass, with larger aircraft there is a risk that they will dig in on the softer surface and possibly turn sideway and tear apart. They runway is more predictable. On the Beech 1900 the even when retracted the wheels are lowest points when the aircraft is level on the ground, after the touchdown with the nose high the aircraft rolls to a stop on is wheels.
Kahu1958 1 year ago
@briquetaverne The debate is weather the aircrafts airframe is under less structural stress on a known flat surface than opposed to uneven ground that could cause the aircraft to come apart due to sudden impacts with the ground. The idea is to keep the airframe in tact there by keeping the occupants safer.
James1toknow 1 year ago
excellent Pilots and excellent Passengers using the buddy system to clear the plane simply unheard of in most aircraft emergencies
pastorgeorgem 1 year ago
Standard aircraft practices for the 1900 require power on during landing to minimise further damage to the engines and aircraft. The props are composite and are designed to shatter on impact, turning the engines off and feathering the props just before landing is utter rubbish,
bradennicola 1 year ago 12
@bradennicola , thanks for the comment. I believe You are correct, and while the prop strike was spectacular it did no appreciable harm.
Kahu1958 1 year ago
@Kahu1958 My goodness though....isn't there a chance of the sheared off props penetrating the fuselage? Damn saving the engines. X the engines....save the people. Just as in an auto rear end collision. When you know that you are about to be rear ended, you could minimize damage to your car by releasing the brakes so the car will move forward upon impact....but this would maximize impact to your neck and kill you. JAMB on the brakes in a rear end collsion. Let the car absorb the impact.
JetMechMA 1 year ago
@JetMechMA . I spoke to engineers that had a close look at the plane after the crash and they said they could barely see where the blades hit the fuselage. The engines were shut down immediately after impact, but I see your point that there could have been problems preventing this. Control off the aircraft to the touchdown was paramount. According to an earlier post when feathering the engines prior to impact, in a simulator, the aircraft balooned up and went further down the runway, less contro
Kahu1958 1 year ago
@Kahu1958 I see. I guess the pilots knew exactly what they were doing. Apparently they are well trained and they lived up to that training. Good for them.
JetMechMA 1 year ago
@Kahu1958 You don't shear porps off the engines during a crash. B1900 require power during the approch phase until pretty much the last moment. B1900 are powered by PT6 engines, there is no direct connection between the props and the power plant hense, virtualy no damage in the case of a prop strike like a piston engine (engine shock gamage). Crash landing in the grass as a very high possibility of ending up in a cartwheel, it is always better to use a hard surface for an emergency approach.
silverfox441 1 year ago
@silverfox441 I agree with most of what you say. The props didn't shear off the engine but the prop blades sheared off the hub. The engines have a seperate turbine driving the compressor(engine) and one driving the prop. landing on grass does have its risks.
It could have turned out a whole lot worse.
Kahu1958 1 year ago
@Kahu1958 Besides, how can you be sure you will retain control over the engines AFTER the crash landing? An Airbus A340 ran for NINE hours after a ground accident once. They had to let it run out of fuel.
JetMechMA 1 year ago
@bradennicola They turn shut the engines down to minimise fire risk and reduce damage to the engines.
c53204 1 year ago
@bradennicola perhaps you should of landed then airplane then
DKF22 6 months ago
@DKF22 Geez aint you a smart arse!
invalidaccountify 6 months ago
@bradennicola haha really? when you learn to fly complex/multi-engine aircraft, then you can talk.
gypsykingg 6 months ago 2
@gypsykingg Oh so you can talk can you? I suppose the only thing you fly is an armchair infront of a digital screen? Being a Kingair 200 F/O with 453hours behind the wheel, and 50hours flying the 1900D I can confirm that the checklist clearly calls for securing the engines after touchdown, that is, power on until touchdown. Once touched down the pilot not flying then begins the shutdown procedures.
KingairB200driver 5 months ago
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Standard aircraft practices for the 1900 require power on during landing to minimise further damage to the engines and aircraft. The props are composite and are designed to shatter on impact, feathering the props just before landing is utter rubbish
bradennicola 1 year ago
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bradennicola 1 year ago
@bradennicola Double post
bradennicola 1 year ago
Haha at 1:07! Please be careful with overhead bins as luggage might have shifted during the flight.
Luvcupramen 1 year ago
Wow, that was the smoothest wheels-up landing I've ever seen :-o
Turizzle 1 year ago
Great pilot!!!
Tedescman 1 year ago
hull damage, anyone?
acg8460 1 year ago
textbook landing!!!
archerymad 1 year ago
What a friendly airstrip...
No sooner have you landed than they cover your 'plane in soap to give a good old wash!
What bloody nice folks!
staffsmole 1 year ago
This Aircraft was involved in another incident on Saturday flying from Gisbourne to Wellington, The pilot encountered a vibration as the front was lifting on take off and tought a tyre had blown, the Aircraft was Diverted from Wellington to (ironically) Blenheim so Wellington airport was free (bigger, Busier airport than Blenheim), # years and 1 day since this belly landing, I reckon this aircraft is jinxed and they should get rid of it, sell it to the aussies lol
stockcar269s 1 year ago
why did it look like there were no wheels
123godzillalover 1 year ago
@123godzillalover I'm going to pretend that I you didn't really ask that
biggare1980 1 year ago 2
Nice Job pilot
LEDshooter 1 year ago
Actually not !
mrjulesch 1 year ago
what a test of the PIC's ability, nice landing considering the circumstances
jamaicaaurora 1 year ago
sweet job .. well done ! New Zealand Breeds good pilots :)
CarAudioGuy21 1 year ago
well judged sir
illeagl 1 year ago
only in new zealand aye XD
xfreakyxboyx666x 1 year ago
The pilot could have saved some money by shutting down the props before doing the landing :-) Nice landing though
Sting3733 1 year ago
@Sting3733 According the the Accident report, the First Officer shut down the engines just as the plane touched the ground - the propellers were going to come off anyway.
lcmortensen 1 year ago
@lcmortensen
Losing one blade is much better than letting it still spin when you touchdown. That could potentially break the engine.
Sting3733 1 year ago
@Sting3733 can you even do that on a turboprop like this?
OK2BCK 1 year ago
@OK2BCK
It's possible but its most likely that the pilot choose to leave the props windmilling (or at least that's what it looks like) to keep as much lift as possible to soften the landing. Without the landing gear he might not have felt comfortable landing with the props not spinning.
Sting3733 1 year ago
wow nice job :)
Dan69Grace 1 year ago
Awesome pilots :)
seanrobot1234 1 year ago
0:09 ...need I say more
KartKing4ever 1 year ago
why do so many beech planes have mechanical failures and crash? My friend recently died from one.
dingoklectos 1 year ago
was an airline or a small plane?
gio31brasil 1 year ago
@dingoklectos they are bad ass airplanes, stfu.
A503B201 1 year ago
I was windering after that video, since it took half the runway to land that beechcraft...why not make better belly's on all aircraft and leave out the landing gears...then we can have shorter runways too oO
Adeelaak 2 years ago 5
funny man really funny
noslover11 1 year ago
How would you take off?? o.O
ledzepallthewayftw 1 year ago
excellent job.
hakan737 2 years ago
Nice landing - my Dad was a passenger on that one! It tried to land at Wellington during rush hour but couldn't get its landing gear down so went back across Cook Strait to Blenheim (Air Force) Base which was quieter and had an emergency team waiting for them. They got a free flight back to Wellington.
Sphenodonpunk 2 years ago
Okay, no offense to you but, do you think people believe that?
MrFlightSimVidz 2 years ago
@Sphenodonpunk
just a free flight?? Hope they got life time supply of airline pretzels :)
Cheers!
NDragovic 1 year ago
I dont know why manufacturers dont build on some kind of ""SKID PLATE" for just such an incident
cpnstav 2 years ago
They don't put skid plates because then redneck pilots would purposely land planes in fields with gear up just to see how many 360's they could turn.
daws0nz 2 years ago 13
@cpnstav some GA airplanes do have skid plates
yoshiy 2 years ago
you are a skid plate
lego720 2 years ago 2
You should get a patent for that.
aWiibitcrazy 1 year ago
Prop strikes...time for engine re-build
w5cdt 2 years ago
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if the pilot worked for me he would have just lost his job, over the nubers, condition levers to fuel cutoff, autofeather off and then manually pull both into feather..both those engines are now trash and there is a nice 900k-1.2mil bill waiting for new ones....
sbaker1595 2 years ago
Hey... Nooooooo....
Bothanstreet 2 years ago
The engines were not trashed
layhao 2 years ago 2
not that much money...
jgpwlcs36 1 year ago
those lower panels are all damaged, theres a couple thousand dollars, but nothing you can do, just the beauty of mechanical failure!
needlenitz18 2 years ago
The guys filming this u can hear them in the background! Awesome comdey!
t008er 2 years ago
Is this the "free refreshment"? A cold shower from the fire brigade :-)
chrigel1234 2 years ago
Then engines were running all the way onto the ground. Gear was jammed. Most commercial planes get pretty noisy if you "forget to put gear down" on an approach.
layhao 2 years ago
Excelent job pilot!
ijustlovefsx 2 years ago
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Knowing the excellent reputation of Beechcraft (the most luxorious and expensive factory in the world for what concerns that kind of planes) I think the pilot simply forgot to deploy the landing gear. A very expensive mistake...
stefanorso 2 years ago
Explain then why he shut of the engines before touchdown and the fire truck standing by next to the runway...
This was clearly a text book example of a gear up emergency landing.
poosanta 2 years ago 10
Layhao is right. Engines were running all the way onto the ground.
Fire truck was beside the runway cos that is where they were poistioned during that particular "Full emergency"
nudgey01 2 years ago
@poosanta The fire trucks are routed by ATC this is standard operation procedures and the dead prop is limiting flying debris, ig broken blades flying off and creating more structural damage to the aircraft and it's passengers. Safety is paramount.
I hope this helped.
James1toknow 1 year ago
@poosanta ...shut off the engines to protect them...all they should have to replace is cowling cover and blades.
espltdguy 1 year ago
@espltdguy I know that. My comment was a responce to another comment
poosanta 1 year ago
great landing! i flew in one of them from auckland to wanaka.
KoreanAir747 2 years ago
Awesome landing, where did it happend?
Ramnight 2 years ago
Blenheim, New Zealand
Kahu1958 2 years ago
Looks a lot like California, obviously it isn't.
kelerite 2 years ago
nice landing
flyyouindotcom 2 years ago
Very nice landing! With gear up and an engine failure!!!
flynabil 2 years ago
probaly turned the engines off
wheeliehome 2 years ago
i don't believe so, you can clearly hear the left engine running until he lands.
PsychoSymantic 2 years ago
maybe he left one on so as to save one engine. Anyway I was talking to someone else who said it was an engine failure
wheeliehome 2 years ago
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9/11 inside job
BushBlewUpTwinTowers 2 years ago
I think on grass there is a greater risk of something digging into the ground and turning the plane and it is more likely to break up if it gets sideways, I may be wrong. This occurred in the middle of our winter.
Kahu1958 2 years ago
On grass you'll be sliding like a butter knife through warm butter!
motokid032 2 years ago
@Kahu1958
No grass or soft ground gives way alot more than paved runway... ultimately less likely for damage and injuries and they may of even sprayed the grass down too prior... if they have a problem with an amphibian (floats/wheels) and can't land on water they also do this looking for grass...
flyrfixr 1 year ago
nicely done by the pilot.
Stupid question, but wouldnt he have been better off doing this on the grass, rather than a concrete runway? He would slide further, but less chance of a fire? idk
Rich131100 2 years ago
air new zealand!
ronald73blue 2 years ago
lmao! "we'll just spray the plane in foam just to make it look like we where actually needed"
MoozicMad 2 years ago 2
better that way than to stand around and watch it burst into flame before doing anything though.
Kahu1958 2 years ago
But it didn't burst into flames though, did it ? that's my point!
MoozicMad 2 years ago
I do understand what you are saying, but on the spot at the time they did not know if it was going to burst into flame or not, and we do not know for certain that if they had not foamed it it would not have burst into flame.
Kahu1958 2 years ago
Foam was laid down for fuel vapour suppression and the control of airbourne fibres from the breakup of the propellers. Don't you guys know anything.
nudgey01 2 years ago
Beech 1900 with a gear problem NO WAY haha, wonder why they couldnt pump it down?
toddyrr 2 years ago
Pretty much a freak acciddent for the hydraulic system to fail in such a way that both normal and emergency systems fail to operate, but it did. Should never happen again now that fault has been found.
Kahu1958 2 years ago
grate stuff well done to the pilots what a scary thoght fingers x im never in that poistion
abitofsweet 2 years ago
wow great piolet
pitcherkid14 2 years ago
He had to maintain a bit of airspeed, depending on the cond at the field. perfect though.
lt4490g 2 years ago
I am surprised he didn't shut down both engines... To prevent any debris from flying all over.
MobileReign 2 years ago
Perfect belly landing
pdxtone 2 years ago
Queue here for free toilet paper heheh great landing
cpnstav 2 years ago