Boeing 737-300 landing gear snaps off-plane skids for a mile

[Ripsnort]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3786972/Plane-lands-belly-skids-MILE-runway-Indonesian-airport-landing-gear-fail-come-down.html

You're slacking R-man! Must be old age?

[Serenity]

How fricking hard did they smack that they broke off the gear?! 

[ghi]

This is happy ending , most belly landings videos like this end up in flames.

[Ratsy]

One report I saw said that the aircraft was transporting fuel.  Big ones on that flight crew.

 

[GScholz]

How fricking hard did they smack that they broke off the gear?! 

From what I've read their main gear apparently didn't lock down properly.

[rpm]

You're slacking R-man! Must be old age?

Definite possibility. First I'd heard of this. Sounds like it was a hard landing.

[Serenity]

From what I've read their main gear apparently didn't lock down properly.

That makes a lot more sense. From the wording in that article it sounded like it was just an incredibly hard landing.

[MiloMorai]

well it is boeing.

[colmbo]

This is happy ending , most belly landings videos like this end up in flames.

During 20 years of working Crash/Rescue and witnessing many gear up landings with aircraft ranging from single-engine piston powered airplanes up to a 727 I never once saw a fire. Sparks from friction, but no fires.

[JunkyII]

well it is boeing.

Hater!!!

[Ratsy]

Sparks from friction, but no fires.

I have nowhere near the hours as you do at the flight line, but I can't think of any either.  I saw a B47 crash at Lincoln AFB during takeoff but it was stall-at-rotate I learned later.  I saw two C130 brake fires in Japan (a quick-acting Mike truck driver earned an Air Medal for putting one of them out).

Still, there's something ominous about sparks flying under an aircraft, isn't there?

Keep me away from that!

 

[icepac]

Aluminum doesn't spark.

[colmbo]

Aluminum doesn't spark.

Ok, so what do you call the bits of red hot metal flying through the air off the gear doors and skin as the aircraft slides down the runway?

[eagl]

Aluminum doesn't spark.

Get it hot enough and it burns pretty good.

[Sabre]

well it is boeing.

Which is why no fire, and no deaths. Give me Boeing, any day. Of course, I may be a bit biased (15+ years with Boeing). We call 'em "Boeing", 'cause they don't crash...the just bounce, and go "Boeing, boeing, boeing..."