Army Beechcraft King air b200 C-90 crash landing gear failure Reno

[21stOPFOR]

Damn fast shut down and feathering the props before nose down. Nice.

[YoLninYo]

typical senior behaviour, jump in line in front of everyone , then take forever to get off the bus... meh!!

[joedlang]

Nicely done.

[theokonstantinidis]

Ace Ventura landed it...LIKE A GLOVE!

[Aidino123]

This is nothing compared to the iran air flight

[lighthouscolor]

Did the pilot know the nose gear was not locked? If so he could have saved a lot of damage to the plane by stopping the engines on final approach.

[SkatingIsMyWayOfLife]

@lighthouscolor He most likely new and it wouldn't of mattered if he feathered them or not its a 3 blade prop which means this is going to be no avoiding the prop from touching the ground which automatically means over haul of the engines and with no nose gear they were likely going to slam down on them if they were stopped any way and worst scenario he still needs to go around and now he's got feathered props if he can afford that plane he can afford new engines so why bother

[eaterofclams]

@SkatingIsMyWayOfLife

Have you ever heard of something called grammar?

Ever notice how some people drop periods and commas and

capitalize the first word of something called a "sentence"?

[flynmid]

@lighthouscolor He did. If you watch closely the engines were shut down after the mainwheels touched the ground. Shutting them down on final would have been very unsafe. This was the most "crash" landing I've ever seen

[bg11215]

"Whahappon?"

"I taughta u gonna lowerda landingear"

"No I taughta u gonna lowerda laningear!"

"Sheee"

[cars675]

pro

[Sven2Perroy]

was that some sort of russian spy in that plane, protected by nato agents, so he could infiltrate the FBI ? I know all your plans big man

[Michael55443]

So, what was the problem?

[garyshouse305]

JAARS,org

[johnnyboy3600]

Nothing bad about that. He was doing tests for the new Brembo brakes!

[Hummermaniac1]

*pilot puts his glasses on at the end, LIKE A BOSS hehe

[pablof59]

@Hummermaniac1 That's Horatio from CSI Miami !

[danlilley2000]

Well done

[caseychaos3601]

ofc the army would have broken planes, its the army.

[fsx767]

"we're here!"

[usernameavailable152]

thats definitely one way to stop

[chazflyz]

It's going to require a little extra power to taxi.

[likmahchoda]

expensive brakes.

[MrRonnieG]

A couple of propellers is a fair price to pay for saving lives.

[UFOSPACE1999]

Thanks everyone for flying Tree Top Airlines..Have a great day!!

[captainmorgan757]

Welcome to Reno and thank you for traveling with us! We hope that you will consider us the next time you are traveling! Thank you again.

[islandtech63]

masterful piloting! notice he keeps the nose up and cuts the engines at the last second. hats off, aircrew!

[Levo909]

NAVY!

[Swissman81]

i like how the second pilot jumps out, helps the passenger and claps hes hand like ...yyyhaaa we did it!!! YES SIR YOU MADE A GREAT JOB!

[xam107]

wow just 2 destroyed props and some scratches :)

[DreamVikings]

Theres nothing better anyone anywhere could have ever done. Good one. I hope that if i ever have a hydraulics failure i can do what this guy did.

[Alexvideoclip]

Nice job !

[99sammysosa]

if that was my plane i would be pissed!

[itsmonti1]

@99sammysosa Wait, a minute! In a way it is part of your plane. Your tax money that you involuntary donated to Uncle Sam bought and paid for that plane. It is like you donating a some of money to a company and that company buys a new car. Technically, you have part ownership to that car. Right?! So, Yes, you should be pissed for the Army to F@%$ up your plane!

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

@itsmonti1 Yeah, because the PIC caused that nose gear failure purposefully for shits and giggles, right?

[dowww21]

they looked relaxed

[GoneViralProductions]

Chuck Norris was the pilot of that exact plane...

[CASSIANOCAVARESE1]

porque o piloto nao estoura a cauda do aviao ao inves de destruir o bico as helices e tudo mais?

[4500intelx]

0:17 bouncing gear

[yurivw]

Made in china

[bermudarailway]

Do you think those props will hammer straight ?

[anilakskater]

LOL

[Transam941]

Puts the glasses on LIKE A BOSS.

[pfcquinn22]

not to sound like a know it all but that is not a 200 series, a 200 has a T-tail.. that is a C-90...we have one at the school i am attending for Aircraft Maintainance

[rikin45]

0:54 puts his sunglasses on, WIN.

[stevegyro1]

Probably knew something was wrong, because pilot kept nose off for unusually long time. Probably figured have to land one way or another. Glad nobody hurt.

[austerace]

@indianmalujl He killed the engines so that they were not shock loaded..... Shock loaded engines cost LOTS of money to put right..... Pilot did a textbook landing and made it look easy.... Respect!!!!!

[crockett616]

Sad to see such a beautiful plane take a hit but whatcha gonna do, pilot did a good job.

[kwaiboysucks]

the aircraft more stable and would have reduced the risk of structural dammage to the nose section. Overall though the pilot did a good job keeping things under control during this emergency landing.

[kwaiboysucks]

runway you on have to send the engine in for a light overhaul and the internal components do suffer the same stresses as an engine under power. As far as the landing goes it is a judgement call that has to be made by the pilot as he/she is ultimately responsible for the aircraft, however with this type of aircraft it is better to land gear up since the main wheels do not fully retract into the wheel well and the aircraft would still ride on them upon landing. Landing gear up would have made

[kwaiboysucks]

This is not a King Air B200 or a King Air C-90 it is a King Air A65-90 or U-21 as the Army called them. It was the first version of King Air aircraft built by Beechcraft and was designed and built for the Army. The reason for shutting down the engines is purely for financial reasons, if the engine is running when the prop strikes the ground a complete overhaul is required and many components will be stressed and require replacement if the engine is shut down prior to the props striking the

[jamie190595]

i bet they've never seen the runway THIS close up before :D

[10dthompson60]

@jamie190595 when they walked on it?

[BIGPAKIBOYSAFFY]

dude ur not driving a motarbike

[leonardozaramella]

Great JOb..

[selgemm]

This is a c90, not a b200

[1Nekit1]

When I was 12, I landed a Beechcraft Bonanza V35B during strong wind and snow fall... That was amazing :)

[flattrackmile]

@1Nekit1 Who cares, it was on a flight sim.

[osterwalder6]

@1Nekit1 wow you're so cool dude...you sound just like a pilot!

[koopi5]

you know you got skill when you can do a stoppie in an airplane.

[Indianmalujl]

Killed the engine, so the props wouldn't go flying everywhere haha.

[EBergJibber]

awesome, first of all, after everything's fine, put the sunglasses on :D

[SuperEminemBoy]

They should make an Air Crash Investigation based on this? :P

[vfrl7r]

He did a great job keeping that nose up and feathering those props on shutdown. I'd say those engines would be reusable. Awesome flying!

[gsxrider24]

Awesome job!!

[TWOLF365]

Sweet. at least my weed delivery should be on time!

[esdenaze]

maybe a retarded idea but would it not have been safer/easier to just belly land?

[haitiano1982]

@esdenaze no cause now you have the main landing gears for differential braking, you have more control. in the case you have a gear unsafe light on one of the main gears, id say lets think about gear up landing but this was the way its supposed to be done. look sometimes,.. many times the gear unsafe light is just a false warning,.. and you go ahead do a belly landing,

[nolifemerc]

@esdenaze nope if you can just put out 1 wheels its allways better that non, wheels is like less damage.

[killarneyloners]

& that ladies and gentlemen, is why hes a navy pilot

[Cravin9741]

why did they feather the prop? wouldn't leaving the prop in a low pitch at a low RPM help slow it down more? like like shifting a car into a lower gear...

[aless2004]

@Cravin9741 The pilot has used the "reverse" to help to stop the aircraft.

[JarvisJesseT]

@Cravin9741 : So the props stop spinning quickly. You wouldn't want the props spinning when then struck the ground. The torque would cause some violent issues.

[jkiang]

@Cravin9741 I don't think you want to slow it down more. You want enough speed so your elevator has enough authority to hold the nose up until it's gets too slow and the nose drop down smoothly.

[capvallejo]

I love whe the pilot down of the aircraft , and he puts you ray-ban glasses!

[PatSoCal]

Unbelievable demonstration of pilot skill - he definitely earned his paycheck that day.

[8martie]

best pilot!



[PILOTasRAHMAN]

that was a short flight...

[TheZa1994]

That plane must have been poorly built. It did'nt even get into the air before it crashed.

[hariswahedi]

@TheZa1994 Its a landing with failed landing gear not a take off

[roadracer1593]

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one!

[eddogbreath]

@Stefano, I'm with you! it was a text book landing, why did he re-flare?

[pingpongpung]

@eddogbreath To lose some extra speed and to give the plane a little extra room to dive the moment he turns off the engines. Just my veteran FSX pilot opinion. :P

[tarashel]

just another classic way to waste tax-payers' money :)

[DetEJagDe]

0:40 Hey! wheres the red carpet?!?

[nuclear944]

He cut the power at 0:14. He pulled back on the controls too much though. That could have been avoided, but under pressure you can't really remember those things...unless you have thousands of hours under your belt.

[robertgift]

" ...two green lights on the gear , thats cool if you are a tail dragger but being a tricycle landing gear aircraft, its bad. ..."

Love your humor.

Thanks for explaining.

Would like to have seen fire arrive on scene.

[stickturn]

10/10 for life n min damage..but i think the pilot could've held the nose up a lilo more and place it gradually on ground to be more on the safer side.

[swpilot2494]

Good landing. Pilots should have feathered and cut the engines just a bit sooner so they wouldn't have ruined them like that. But either way, great job.

[BPwhistleblower]

Just like owebama, tearing up government property.

[Heinekeem]

Awesome skills.. The pilot managed to get everybody safe and without destroying the airplane. Good job

[wcolby]

@Heinekeem

All that & he did it in the thin air at about 4500 feet

[FSXpakistan]

@wcolby ey, What is SOP?

:S

[wcolby]

@FSXpakistan Standard Operating Procedure

[FSXpakistan]

@wcolby Thanks:)

Good day!

[codzomz]

@wcolby well thats not too thin of air, remember although the standard adiabatic lapse rate is2 degrees C and 1 inch of Hg per 1,000 feet, not everyday is standard day, but it was still a damn nice landing, this is just another reason to nail those soft field multi-engine landings I have been doing so much of

[zintoit]

@Heinekeem LMAO

[warriorxp111]

@Heinekeem the plane could probobly be fixed from that

[Pfahli94]

POWERSLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE!

Thats a freakin awesome rocker!

[RADIOACTIVEBUNY]

Wow. Absolutely FANTASTIC landing.  This man is a piloting genious.

[tom201090]

impressed how the pilot held the lane

[SuperThink13]

Hahahahaha :D

[agentpancakes1]

lol 2012 bloopers!

[TeenFlyer95]

bet the pilots thinking " atleast i dont have to pay for that"

[UFOSPACE1999]

I hope everyone enjoyed their flight on TREE TOP AIRLINES....

[daveescape01]

Listen closely, from 0:17 onwards you can hear the pilot scream,

"what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uu...."

[liopandah123abc]

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA­HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

i noe its rong rong to do dat but its just funny to me

TEEHEE

[BigJonBone]

That looked expensive.

[Snipe4261]

Any landing you can walk away from . . .

[krbosak]

@Snipe4261 Or run/swim away from...

[TkMToM1993]

good piloting.. he knew the problem and tried to keep it on its back 2 wheels till plane slowed down abit

[quentin3434]

What's that guy at 0:51 doing? Don't ask don't tell?

[lasjayhawk]

I kinda think that might be a straight 90 maybe an A or B

Anybody know what happened? It looks like the bicycle chain must have broke.

[rrip1]

Pilot pulled back the stick to give engines more time to spool down. Looks like minimal damage, beautiful job.

[nocalsteve]

A King Air C-90 and a King Air 200 are two different models of airplane. A King Air 200 is much larger with a T-tail and tandem wheels on the main landing gear. This is probably a U-21 which is a military version of the C-90.

[badbrains409]

really wasnt bad of a crash at all given the circumstrances.hydraulic loss of MLG, failure to lock over center. definetly requiring engine overhauls, sheet metal replacement, props,etc

[22cibe]

if he landed it with a supeer haaaaaaaaaaaard bumb , the gear , was locked

[shahabbangash]

hahahhahhaa lol

[raysot]

Textbook landing. Crew feathers props just before they hit. For the guy that was asking why the crew pulled the nose up like they did.. it's to bleed off as much speed as possible before impact. The chances of survival go up exponentially with every knot of groundspeed bled off.

[invisibleyoyo31]

and he just walks off thinking he is not going to have to pay for that

[FISHMUSKIE1]

that was a textbook landing under those circumstances.Well done

[frank2398]

Give that pilot a beer!

[cjellwood]

I wonder if it is better to land with no gear than half gear?

[lowball420]

That was a picture perfect way to make the best out of a bad situation. Props to the pilot.

[3624nathan]

He forgot to shut off the engines. That plane is dun.

[Leticoz]

@3624nathan he clearly shut it down at 0:15

[wolf69a]

Very good pilot

[accuruneide]

look at my preferite aircraft!!! no way!!! the pilot is a dork!

[TheoO18]

@accuruneide dude read the description , the pilot was genius !!

[txmuddog]

Its a Kingair C90, very nice job by the pilot

[Mushkill666]

pilot did a great job of not hurting anybody 2 thumbs up

[robert0joe]

@Mushkill666 Thumbs down.

[meccabumbleswan]

Text book. Well done Sir. Saved the engines as well.

[Kfaypilot]

Good job, you had the gear down then you raised it back up. And FAILED

[Sting3733]

@Kfaypilot

Wow you must be retarded...He didn't raise the gear back up, the front gear didn't lock.

[Deepthunder11]

damn, im the only person that disliked this video so far. i mean, im not gonna give a thumbs up to those guys when they got out of the aircraft

[cutasscrew]

great job

[MrPaki1996]

yea thats really bad,well everyone was ok so thats good.

[straighttailpilot]

very well done!

[Jonathanrulze]

Nice Job Pilot!

[FreiheitTV]

Nice handling of the situation. I dont know, if the shut down the engines before prop earth contact. But they did a very good and professional landing. Did you see, how relaxed they sit inside until braking with the nose? I would have a brown strip in my shorts!

[butterbean444]

pilot got skill

[VEE1r0tate]

he should have killed the props first to prevent further damage

[RontoWolfBackUp]

@VEE1r0tate

Thats what he did.

[Iflew727]

I had the same exact thing happen while landing a C-90 (without the extra wheelie just before letting the nose down). The most surprising effect of the experience was the deceleration (242' skid on the nose with minimal damage). The only injury was a 320 lb. medic twisting his ankle jumping off the aft stair.

To mention it, this is not a King Air 200.

[skat0r]

thats some good piloting skills

[mugaliens]

The issue was that nose gear was never in the locked position in the first place. Read the OP - 2 lights, not three. Why do you think they were taping this? It's not SOP to tape every landing - only those which may pose a problem.

[wcolby]

True, its not SOP to tape every landing... But I have a video on Youtube called Airplanes Landing Safely & nobody watches it. :-)

[codclanable]

@wcolby Oh wow I feel bad.

[FSXpakistan]

@wcolby Hey, What is SOP?

:S

[mugaliens]

TKFlyboy: "the pilot never brought the power completely to idle thats why the plane kept the nose up attitude"

Wrong - The King Air is a turbine, and uses constant speed props - the pitch is altered to achieve the appropriate thrust.

"then what he did to compensate for that is he brought the nose down too sharply breaking the nose gear lock and thus crashin."

Wrong. The nosewheel touchdown velocity was well within limits.

[kenchen3000]

so much for those propellers

[TKFlyboy]

the pilot never brought the power completely to idle thats why the plane kept the nose up attitude, then what he did to compensate for that is he brought the nose down too sharply breaking the nose gear lock and thus crashin.

[fincruix]

no, the nose ldg didn't lock down when the landing gears were took down, and the pilot had an indication of it in the cockpit.

[rkasior]

a real pilot would of taxied it to the ramp

[yz450fWOO]

:,(

[jjjazzycraig]

i bet they put themselves in for medals and purple hearts.

[bachian]

Why disable embed? Please, think about it

[bachian]

Thanks to reconsider! ;-)

[coolos123456789]

pilot puted his sun glasses back just after he went of the plane :D

[mellebaby1]

its only about a foot jump.. lol

[captainmattthompson]

0:41 "How are we gonna get out?!" XD

[Cheesepickles22]

lol

[Solberg83]

that is not a B200, but great job by those pilots! those engines are good to go again!

[Saberpride73]

The pilot did a great job, you can't really say he did bad or criticise until it happens to you!

[borshn]

thats gotta hurt

[wcolby]

To Mechanically turn the propellers so they are thin side to the air flow, or not spinning in the wind.. It hurts the engine less if the propellers aren't turning when they hit the runway.

[kevgza1]

@wcolby To me it looks like the yoke was pulled back simply to keep the nose off the dirt for as long as possiable. Less time in contact with the ground = less damage. I think he timed feathering the props well, as they stopped just as the nose hit.

[LukeWratten]

@wcolby Would it matter as much with a turboprop?

[tenpiloto]

@wcolby These propellers cannot be "mechanically turned". The PT-6 turboprop engine propellers are turned by turbine airflow. The pilot shut off the engines (stopped fuel to the turbines), but there was no way to ensure that the props would end up in that position rotation-wise. He could have feathered them (knife-edge into the wind). He did a superb job in keeping the nose up for as long as he did, and also in keeping the plane straight down the runway before the nose gear collapsed.

[ChrizRockster]

Just managed to feather in time!

[debiassi]

You need to look closer!!, the pilot new there was a problem with the nose wheel, check the first few seconds and you can see the excess movement in the wheel. The pilot was trying to keep the nose off as long as possible to allow the speed to bleed off so the impact was less drammatic. Shame they couldnt pull the engines and save 2 expensive teardowns but great work by the crew

[YakAV8R]

PT-6 is a free wheel turbine so there is no internal destruction like you would see with an opposed piston or radial engine. I'd be looking at the prop flange, hub's and engine mounts pretty closely. Also, props slicing into runway tend to frag cabin area. Uncle Sam can rebuild her!

[ddrummond87]

In a complex prop airplane to feather means to reverse the pitch of the propellers.This causes the prop to push airflow in the opposite direction and dramatically reduces stopping distance when a short landing is required.

[wavefool]

Hey guys no one died. This was an Army aircraft so that was considered a great landing.