Just watched this video and had to share. What a great job all around on this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B229-KLudTo
Mike
Edited: Adding news story as well. Quite the young lady...
https://www.aviation24.be/manufacturers ... -take-off/
Young student pilot in emergency landing
Young student pilot in emergency landing
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Like a Champ. Well done, Maggie!
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Thank you Mike for sharing. I found another news story on this where she talks about her ordeal.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/teen-pilots-m ... d=57745039
Makes you also wonder why a wheel would fall of during take off. Was it something missed during preflight? A few months ago a wing falls off a Piper. Humm, can’t wait to see the NTSB report.
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/teen-pilots-m ... d=57745039
Makes you also wonder why a wheel would fall of during take off. Was it something missed during preflight? A few months ago a wing falls off a Piper. Humm, can’t wait to see the NTSB report.
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An outstanding job by the young lady and a credit to her instructor and flying training in general, that someone so young and inexperienced can handle a situation like that with such presence of mind and grace.
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Well handled by everyone involved. And hats off to the young lady for such a great job!
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Agreed Ron, not even a mention in that story and couldn’t find much yesterday when searching.
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Don't be too hard on her for preflight. I once had a raging row with a young instructor because he sent me to preflight an
aircraft and came out 10 minutes later and I hadn't quite finished...he told me "You don't need to check these thoroughly, lots of different pilots fly them lots of times a day"... my reply was that was EXACTLY why I checked them so thoroughly. He put "time waster" down on my student sheet..the CFI removed it and had a quiet word to him!
Sometimes students feel obliged to see what SHOULD be there, not what is. And in any case, if the fault was up in the joint, it may not have been terribly visible anyhow.
aircraft and came out 10 minutes later and I hadn't quite finished...he told me "You don't need to check these thoroughly, lots of different pilots fly them lots of times a day"... my reply was that was EXACTLY why I checked them so thoroughly. He put "time waster" down on my student sheet..the CFI removed it and had a quiet word to him!
Sometimes students feel obliged to see what SHOULD be there, not what is. And in any case, if the fault was up in the joint, it may not have been terribly visible anyhow.
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I agree, both on your pre-flight regimen and on the young lady's pre-flight. Whatever failed on her main gear was most likely not obvious on her normal pre-flight inspection.Killratio wrote:Don't be too hard on her for preflight. I once had a raging row with a young instructor because he sent me to preflight an
aircraft and came out 10 minutes later and I hadn't quite finished...he told me "You don't need to check these thoroughly, lots of different pilots fly them lots of times a day"... my reply was that was EXACTLY why I checked them so thoroughly. He put "time waster" down on my student sheet..the CFI removed it and had a quiet word to him!
Sometimes students feel obliged to see what SHOULD be there, not what is. And in any case, if the fault was up in the joint, it may not have been terribly visible anyhow.
We have an axiom in the accident investigation business.
"Only the FAA and the NTSB believe that pilots have X-Ray vision that "should have every time" detected the undetectable problem that caused something to fail on your aircraft."
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Interesting how badly the taxiway light has pierced the wing's leading edge, don't you think?
I've thought that those lights would be very easy to knock down, and that wing itself would easily just knock it down, maybe get bent a bit that's it...
I've thought that those lights would be very easy to knock down, and that wing itself would easily just knock it down, maybe get bent a bit that's it...
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I have held a taxi light and that thing feels like a club made of lead. They are built very solidly. Airplanes on the other hand, are not so solid...
Really well done for all parties involved.
Really well done for all parties involved.
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Young student pilot in emergency landing
Wow! Good job from the instructor bringing her back to focus on flying the plane and the approach on the freq. Glad all ended well and smooth. Also happy someone notice she had lost a main on takeoff. Would have made for a bad surprise on touch down...
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Come to think about it.. I’m wondering if knowing cause more stress on the captain than she needed.. After all, the missing landing gear resulted in a lost of control on the roll out.. due to wingtip bitting the asphalt... knowing or not, the outcome should be the same no? what do you think?
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Come to think about it.. I’m wondering if knowing cause more stress on the captain than she needed.. After all, the missing landing gear resulted in a lost of control on the roll out.. due to wingtip bitting the asphalt... knowing or not, the outcome should be the same no? what do you think?
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I definitely want to know if something is wrong!
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The USAF ATC has a habit of confirming gear position if you lower your landing gear as a matter of procedure. I seem to recall when I was doing touch and goes at Eielson AFB they would call that my landing gear was good (and I was flying an old 172 without a retractable wheel).
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"Gear down. 3 Green"CodyValkyrie wrote:The USAF ATC has a habit of confirming gear position if you lower your landing gear as a matter of procedure. I seem to recall when I was doing touch and goes at Eielson AFB they would call that my landing gear was good (and I was flying an old 172 without a retractable wheel).
The standard call.
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