YYZflyer From Canada, joined Feb 2006, 3636 posts, RR: 5 Posted (7 years 2 months 6 days ago) and read 5654 times:
Has a pax jet ever made a planed emergency landing without any gear at all? I do remember hearing about a TWA 727 doing this at BOS with foam put out on the runway or something like that. I mean like a jet with engines on the wings. I'd suspect the pilots would burn off most of the fuel to minimize the explosion from the sparks that mix with the jet fuel. What kind of preparations would the flight crew have to make in such a situation? Anyone heard anything or have any ideas?
EMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9286 posts, RR: 13 Reply 1, posted (7 years 2 months 6 days ago) and read 5644 times:
I can't think of one case were a commercial plane did a full belly landing. There have been nose or main failures, but never all. The landing gear on a passanger plane are designed to 'free fall' and lock down in an emergency situation.
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WTXJET From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 22 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (7 years 2 months 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 5589 times:
On February 19, 1996 a Continental Airlines DC-9 landed at IAH without the landing gear deployed and this was no emergency landing. Simply the pilots failed to lower the gear.
Quoting from the NTSB report, Captain had omitted the 'Hydraulics' item on the in-range checklist and the F/O failed to detect the error, hydraulic pressure was not available to lower the landing gear and deploy the flaps.
PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 10 Reply 5, posted (7 years 2 months 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 5553 times:
UAL747 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (7 years 2 months 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 5478 times:
A military cargo plane (I can't remember when or where, though it was in the past year) landed without gear. I want to say it was in California, but I'm not sure. It was on CNN and they shut down one of the engines as well. (It was a prop plane).
AvConsultant From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 1360 posts, RR: 3 Reply 9, posted (7 years 2 months 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 5435 times:
I thought there was an Eastern 727 incident in BHM similar to the CO incident.
FlyHoss From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 598 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (7 years 2 months 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 5404 times:
From the NTSB website, here's some details of a Continental Express Beech 1900 executing an intentional (all) gear up emergency landing (sorry for the all capital letters; I copied it directly from the site):
CONTINENTAL EXPRESS FLIGHT 206, A BEECH 1900 AIRLINER, DEPARTED DENVER, CO, FOR NORTH PLATTE, NE. DURING DESCENT FOR LANDING, PILOT ATTEMPTED TO LOWER GEAR. LEFT MAIN AND NOSE GEARS LOCKED DOWN BUT RIGHT MAIN STUCK IN INTERMEDIATE POSITION. PILOT ATTEMPTED TO EXTEND GEAR VIA MANUAL EXTENSION AND ACCELERATED 'G' MANEUVERS. BOTH ATTEMPTS FAILED. FLIGHT RETURNED TO DENVER AND PILOT EXECUTED WHEELS-UP LANDING. POST-INCIDENT EXAMINATION DISCLOSED FOREIGN MATERIAL LODGED IN POPPET SEAT AND RETAINER OF LANDING GEAR ACTUATOR EXTEND PORT. ACTUATOR WAS CLEANED, REASSEMBLED, AND FUNCTIONALLY TESTED OK. FOREIGN SUBSTANCE WAS ANALYZED BY FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY AND IDENTIFIED AS LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (I.E. PLASTIC BAG OR DUST COVER). RESIDUE ON FOREIGN SUBSTANCE WAS IDENTIFIED AS MIL-H-5606 HYDRAULIC FLUID. INVESTIGATION DISCLOSED SUBSTANCE COULD HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED INTO ACTUATOR DURING MANUFACTURE OR INTO HYDRAULIC SYSTEM DURING AIRCRAFT ASSEMBLY
The aircraft was just a few weeks old at the time of the incident. It was ferried from DEN to BJC just a few days later for repairs and returned to the line flying within a few weeks.
N272WA From Ireland, joined Jun 2007, 361 posts, RR: 8 Reply 13, posted (7 years 2 months 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 5275 times:
Back some years ago, I remember reading about a British Airways ATP executed a partial gear up landing on a flight from Connaught/Knock/Ireland West Airport (NOC) to Manchester (MAN). Roughly 60 pax onboard, no injuries.
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Noelg From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 14, posted (7 years 2 months 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 5251 times:
There's also the KLM Cityhopper Fokker 50 that made a landing with one of the main gear not locked, the crew for "Airport" just happened to be there and caught the whole thing on film.
Bx737 From Ireland, joined Sep 2001, 641 posts, RR: 4 Reply 15, posted (7 years 2 months 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 5003 times:
I'm not fully sure of the date but it was mid 1970s apparently a Spantax CV990 made a wheels up landing in Cologne with no injuries on board. The aircraft was repaired and returned to service. IIRC the underneath of the CV990 in the museum in Lucerne was used for the repair job.
NYCFlyer From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 1381 posts, RR: 11 Reply 16, posted (7 years 2 months 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 5003 times:
Gr8Circle From Canada, joined Dec 2005, 2985 posts, RR: 5 Reply 20, posted (7 years 2 months 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 4856 times:
Didn't a UA 744 make a belly landing sometime in the early 90's....I distinctly remember reading about it and even seeing a pic in the NP's....maybe I'm wrong.....
Steeler83 From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 8802 posts, RR: 19 Reply 21, posted (7 years 2 months 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 4818 times:
I think I remember seeing on the news a twin engine cessna land on its belly on Lebanon Church Rd near the PA-51 clover leaf when attempting an emergency landing at AGC. This was more than ten years ago...
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GeorgiaAME From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 867 posts, RR: 6 Reply 24, posted (7 years 2 months 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 4774 times:
Yes.
But not well
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25 Steeler83: Yeah, that's right!!! OTTO, that inflatable autopilot, or "OTTOpilot," flew that thing. That movie was one of the funniest movies ever made, and stil
26 OPNLguy: Frontier 737-200 at CPR, 1983... http://members.tripod.com/~LAMKINS/FL_737CPR.jpg
27 YYZflyer: I'm probably reading it wrong but it says the passengers got off within 20 mins. How long does it take to get off a plane in an emergency with little
28 Steeler83: I think what happened was the plane landed with its gear down and in tact. The plane could not stop, and Ted Striker, apparently "put his foot on the
29 DTW757: Glad someone got it Most aircraft that I've flown apply the brakes with the tops of the rudder pedals. I should add that the rudder pedals are spl
30 Steeler83: Any time I was under the impression that the pedals controled the rudder. I saw that while watching a documentary on USAir 427, when they were talkin
31 EMBQA: OOPS..!! Just read the NTSB report. They just forgot to lower the gear....!! D'ooh..!!
32 Tu114: The Il-62 is actually specifically designed to survive landings with no landing gear - there's a specially strengthened beam along the belly of the ai
33 Levg79: And don't forget the mechanic opening the hood and checking oil at LAX... Roger Roger, what's our vector Victor?
34 DTW757: You're welcome. I often wondered how it all worked myself until I started flying. Also on many light aircraft and some small jets the rudder pedals h
36 Shamrock133: I did a gear up landing two months ago in a Cessna 172RG.......the right main gear wouldn't extend....even after measures to use the emergency hand pu
37 EMBQA: It's not unique.....all the aircraft I've worked on have this as well. I know the Embraer ERJ has this...
38 Steeler83: Oh yeah, that was funny as hell!!! "aaaaaaahhhh" [crash] "Roger" [huh?] "Roger, Over" [What? Huh?... Who?] *plane takes off* How about McCroskey and
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