Landing with missing main Gear

This Cessna 185 G-BKPC is used as a parachute drop aircraft at Cockerham in Lancashire 37 miles north of Barton. On take-off it is belived to have hit an earth mound and lost part of the left main gear. The pilot climbed to a altitude suitable to drop the sky divers off then set off for ...

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• Accident
• Crash
• Plane
• Airplane
• Aviation
• Landing
• Critical
• Incident
• Lucky
• Pilot
• Parachute

[kevino25701]

Sweet landing! Just how many firemen did it take to remove the seat cushion from the pilots arse??? Major pucker factor I bet.

[lxgbmedia]

@ironedge626 That explains it. OK I will let you off.

[ironedge626]

@lxgbmedia I am german So Watch out

[lxgbmedia]

@fluffypolarcat me too

[lxgbmedia]

@ironedge626 Well that is because you don't know the guy and you are a nob.

[lxgbmedia]

@sheepdogbarking you mean noticing the wheel missing before take off????

[fluffypolarcat]

That was the first plane I ever jumped from. I remember Gordon Cooper. He did a great job landing that plane safely.

[ironedge626]

I would laugh if he would be like ahhh look at that and then kaaaaBOOM

[sheepdogbarking]

I wonder if a good preflight inspection would have prevented this?

[jabp03]

It could not have been done better!