Hayward gear up crash landing airplane crash

This was an aircraft landing at the Hayward, California airport. The Landing gear failed to come down, the pilot flew in circles to burn off fuel, allowing me time to set up my camera. I understand the cause was, that the maintenance person had failed to replace a spacer that had been removed during the servicing of the landing gear the previous day.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Hayward
• aircraft
• crash
• landing
• gear
• up
• airplane
• california

[bigbadbenable]

Fair play for making it safe, but why in the hell did he not go deadlstick and feather the prop! Could have saved himself a whole lot of time and money, that engine will most likely need to be replaced or at least sent of and check over.

[wcolby]

@bigbadbenable it was a rental.

[flyav8rboi]

are you sure this is Hayward..?? i have flown to hayward many times and this airport not at all looks like hayward...

[wcolby]

@flyav8rboi Yup, its Hayward, California. I was standing at hangar #3 & the airplane came in over the mall, landing on 28L. Walt

[flyergp65]

didnt even turn the engine off before flare

25k to repair it easy

[tomchaplin77]

Damn - evidently a mechanical.......but that was a HARD landing and it must have been a rental plane cause - two bladed prop? - I would have pulled the mixture on short final and at least gave that one shot that the prop would stop horizontal and save the strike and subsequent tear down. Glad he made it out all right though.

[sargentoromerales]

Nice landing with tail wind....

[msnfab]

PQ NAO POUSOU NA GRAMA?

PQ NAO PLANAOU MAIS UM POUCO?

[mfnchris]

If this ever happens to me, I'm NOT cutting the engine. That's what insurance is for. There's too many other things going on, and you're gonna have to get pretty slow to get that prop to stop windmilling anyways. Turn off the fuel after you land.

SWEET VIDEO! like!

[gpavlovic25]

Thats a fantastic landing for a plane with no wheels.

[lifes7holy7skateprk7]

DANG HE HIT FREAKIN HARD!!!!

[1chubbo]

@bigbadbenable Single engine planes like this do not have feathering props.

[shaun17304]

ya should have pulled the mixture, and my god have you ever heard of a flair

[ProChoiceJesus]

I agree wholeheartedly that this pilot should have cut the engine & tried to get the prop horizontal to save the teardown & possible higher expense/headache & all, but, and I'm a commercial pilot, isn't it reasonable to imagine that any pilot, facing a gear-up landing, probably has his/her head wrapped tightly around what's going to happen when that belly starts scraping asphalt? I don't know if I would truly, in the face of a no-gear landing, think about trying to get the prop sideways or not.