Airplane crash altiport de Megève france altiport france landing without landing gear (HD)

We did not know, what will happen in the next 4 minutes. I was filming the approach for my personal video files, than it happens. The crash. Right after the crash, we don't knew what was happening. We all survived. This video shows the approach to the altiport megève. Both, the pilot and the mountain rate teacher have several thousands of flight hours and a huge experience, but it happens, that the gear was forgotten. On the video you can hear the warning signal of the plane, that indicates, that the gear was not pulled out. No one was harmed by the crash.

After the crash, we tried to move the plane, but we had to get a tractor, to pull the crashed plane from the runway. You can see this in the further video.

So i can give you the following advice: Check your gear twice or use a plane with a fixed gear.

The flight was on the 29. August 2009 at 10:19 AM.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Altiport France
• Airplane crash altiport
• landing without landing gear
• altiport crash
• altiport Megève
• Airport

[Oberstbonze]

The pilots made a big mistake but that's no reason to insult them!

[AaronRezzonico]

As Mou FI I can say that a lot went wrong before the crash. A too steep approach, too fast and too high. In such airfields the configuration must be established well before the final, since no go around is possible anymore. 3 people on board and nobody noticed the partially extended landing gear. The concentration of the pilots was mainly on the approach and it is quite obvious that they had no spare brain to do even a final check.Do not fly in any altiport without an introduction.

[FahrenheitStoves]

I'm an ex aircraft engineer and I've seen that many times. Buy a plane with fixed gear.

[CheshuntISF]

A too steep approach, too fast and too high. Thats it!

[Todenkopf09]

probably some really really good noise cancelling headsets, but probably doesnt excuse missing the light indicating gear up

[OI8APC2]

They need to revoke his license permanately. Oh wait, they're french. That explains it. Fucking idiot.

[fwjjaspers]

I think it's a good training video on Threat and Error management

[1editor1]

The gear up landing can happen to anyone how flies a retract. External pressure and life distractions will bite you at sometime, whether it‘s running a stop sign, leaving the iron on or car unlocked. The perfect storm for a gear up. You’ve booked that getaway with your buddies in the TB20 that you haven’t flown for 5 weeks. This has been a ball buster. Your wife has just served the divorce papers, the bank won’t refinance your home and your daughter is pregnant by your best friend. FOCUS!

[Oberstbonze]

@rocketman3746 Okay but that's no reason to insult the pilots!

[rocketman3746]

@Oberstbonze I land in situations like this all of the time, in much, much worse weather. That landing was not even remotely difficult. If they had made a stabilized approach (taking into consideration the mountainous terrain) and followed procedures, this would have never happened. Forgetting to put the gear down is one thing, ignoring a gear horn is another thing entirely. If a pilot cannot multitask in a high workload environment, then he or she should consider another hobby.

[rocketman3746]

@bolowke666 There should never be such a thing as a routine mistake. Good training and professionalism should be more than enough to prevent an accident like this. I'm not even bothered by the fact that they landed with the gear up. I'm more disturbed by the fact they ignored almost 2 minutes of very loud and very annoying gear horn prior to landing gear up. That should never happen, no matter who you are. If it does, you may not be cut out for flying.