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.
Title: Re: Boeing 737-300 landing gear snaps off-plane skids for a mile
Post by: JunkyII on September 15, 2016, 10:14:42 AM
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!
:salute
Title: Re: Boeing 737-300 landing gear snaps off-plane skids for a mile
Post by: icepac on September 15, 2016, 06:29:25 PM
Aluminum doesn't spark.
Title: Re: Boeing 737-300 landing gear snaps off-plane skids for a mile
Post by: colmbo on September 15, 2016, 08:06:16 PM
Which is why no fire, and no deaths. :neener: 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..." :airplane:
Title: Re: Boeing 737-300 landing gear snaps off-plane skids for a mile
Post by: Skuzzy on September 16, 2016, 01:23:58 PM
I watched a Super Cub on floats spin out of a turn shortly after takeoff and crashed with a big fireball. He was carrying 4 5 gallon metal cans of gas behind his seat. Post fire the floats were reduced to an ashen outline on the ground, virtually totally consumed by the fire.
Title: Re: Boeing 737-300 landing gear snaps off-plane skids for a mile
Post by: DaveBB on September 17, 2016, 07:26:09 AM
Aluminum will burn. Shoot, throw an aluminum can in a hot campfire and it will burn.
But I have not seen it spark. Even when grinding on it.
Title: Re: Boeing 737-300 landing gear snaps off-plane skids for a mile
Post by: GScholz on September 17, 2016, 09:49:38 AM
Planes are made from all kinds of metals and materials, including steel and magnesium. However, the runway itself and the paint used can be flammable when heated up by friction. Here's a video of the Airbus that landed with a locked nose wheel. Notice how the fire intensifies every time the nose wheel hits the runway paint.
Title: Re: Boeing 737-300 landing gear snaps off-plane skids for a mile
Post by: NatCigg on September 17, 2016, 10:04:38 AM
now i don't know what your talking about but any pilot that can put that monster on a stripe of paint is a good pilot in my book.