Crippled Cessna Lands Safely

successfull emergency landing

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[TheMeslava]

You people honestly call yourselves pilots? I mean come on. Gliders glide to safe landings everyday without engines... if he has 7000 feet of runway in a twin small plane, there is no reason why once he has the runway made he can't cut the engines... he doesn't need a go around because he could land 3 times before running out of runway! I completely disagree with the people that say a pilot shouldn't do this, especially the way he landed. Barely even took up 10 feet of the actual runway...

[travelguy008]

Great Landing....

[TheSutekh]

Incidentally, it's entirely possible to get the screws stopped before the nose settles. I came in ~5 KIAS faster than the POH suggests and had them cut, feathered and stopped dead with the fuel and master off before the grinding started. With McCauley three-blades though, there was no way to keep them from striking unfortunately. Took the better part of a year to get the old girl patched up once the finger point began...

[TheSutekh]

Lots of comments on the subject, but having been in this situation personally, I have to agree with joecessna182. I put my 310Q on its nose at Oakland Int. on Feb 8th 2008 after a nosegear linkage failure (common 310 problem unfortunately) and left my poor Contis running until the mains were on. I had an hour and a half to think about it as I flew around burning fuel and trying to get gear lock, and I wasn't at all comfortable, especially under the stress I was, taking a go-around off the table.

[joecessna182]

Thank you and your dad for the objective view. Any pilot worth his or her salt knows that you do not want to eliminate your options, especially in an emergency.

[joecessna182]

Well, I am not the one on trying to be the Youtube tough guy know it all peter pilot, like yourself. Go to the FAA wesbsite, do a search for pilots, look in Nebraska for the last name Reedy. I am the only one with that name. You will plainly see then I am in fact a commercial licensed pilot with a EMB - 145 SIC type from the airline that furloughed my ass 6 months ago. Get over it. Let me know when you actually fly a 310, I got my ME in one.

[habs4114]

Hey bud, I agree with joecessna182.

My dad watched this video yesterday and agrees that they should have left the engines going. And after 19 years in the sky, Im almost 100% sure that hes forgot more about flying that most of you still know today.

[joecessna182]

What would "landing long" do for you in this case. How about coming up short cause you don't have any power. My guess is you are a flight sim junkie trying to pas yourself off as a pilot. I have been flying for over 10 years, I am a furloughed airline pilot and I have quite a few hours in the Cessna 310. Bottom line, there are seven different ways to skin a cat, I would not have shut them down, that is my school of thought. But don't tell someone they have no clue when you have no clue.

[piloto1324]

excelente, bravo, excelente piloto trata en medio de una emergencia de salvar los motores y las helices, muy buena maniobra a muy poca altura...

[joecessna182]

Runway length in now way determines whether or not you will need to go around. Wind Shear, aircraft or vehicle coming out on the runway, ny number of things could require a go around no matter whether the runway is 8,000 feet long or 800 feet long. Yes, everyone lived, good job. But I'll say it again, there is no need to compound an already bad situation by eliminating options. Shut them down after you get the mains on if you like, but the airplane will need fixing anyway.