Video footage of Cargo a/c crash at Birmingham

[Neil]

Footage released of a Cargo plane crash landing at Birmingham in 2006Link here

[preiffer]

Bloody good pilot if you ask me [y]

Originally posted by preiffer
Bloody good pilot if you ask me [y]

Wasn't he sacked?

[preiffer]

Not sure on the background, but from what I could *see* in the video, it only had one of the two main U/C's down. So, a one-wheeled landing, coming out pretty neatly at the end = not a bad effort.

Unless I'm missing something here... [:I]

IIRC correctly, he received a radio message, got distracted, and dumped the plane down on grass missing the runway and ripping one UC off - then he took off again, flew on to BIR and landed successfully.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7372457.stm

[preiffer]

OOOOOH.

Well, his SECOND landing, [y][y][y]


...and it doesn't sound like the first issue was ENTIRELY his doing (according to the AAIB anyway [:I])

Comes in with some speed.

[RichardMannion]

Originally posted by McMaddog

Originally posted by preiffer
Bloody good pilot if you ask me [y]

Wasn't he sacked?

Wasn't that some fool who did a really low fly by in a brand new Boeing in Seattle?

Link

[Scrooge]

The fact that the airlines chairman told him to do the fly by seems to have been missed.

I flew out of BHX to Faro the same morning, it was very busy, the football was in Germany at the time and many people were flying out to see it. I spent one hour sitting on a plantpot thing with my sister then as soon as we poached a seat at the cafe our flight was called and we took off with less runway.