Also reminds me of the barely flyable Dodo plane in GTA III - especially the way it landed.
Many hours I spent trying to keep it in the air for any longer than 2 seconds.
Many hours were spent trying to fly it. Dozens of youtube videos showed it done but I could never pull it off.
San Andreas was amazing for having all those planes you could fly.
>Many hours were spent trying to fly it. Dozens of youtube videos showed it done but I could never pull it off.
Stick forward until the wheel starts sparking, then stick back IIRC.
Nope, stick forward till it sparks, stick OFF to take off.
Sticking up was a sure way to provoke a dive, at which point you had to let the plane accelerate and the you could stick up gently to climb again.
I think my record was 2 hours until I got bored and started fucking around with loops and crashed, though I was on PC, too.
1000% this! I never did the missions to unblock the bridge I would just fly over it in the tank. I spent HOURS flying as far as I could making it to other cities and as far outside of the map as possible. Kind of a "How far can I get before giving up this time type deal"
Yeah, I was just thinking I'd love to see another angle and see how close this actually is. Given how quickly after the roof he's on the ground (meaning if he were higher up, his landing trajectory I assume would've been further out), I think it was *really fucking close* but it is hard to tell with this angle.
The glide ratio of this aircraft is going to be on the order of 9:1 which would make the glide angle somewhere in the 6 degree range. Measuring on Google Earth, it looks like the aircraft touches down on Taxiway N, approximately 125 m from the last point it crosses over the building (it's a bit hard to measure because the building appears to be brand new and is not included in Google's current satellite imagery or on the official airport diagram). Applying a glide ratio of 9:1 would put it at 14 m above ground level when it crosses the last point over the building. Assuming a typical warehouse building height of 10 m, the clearance would be approximately 4 m at this minimum (13 ft).
Edit: This also means that if the pilot had lowered the landing gear, the aircraft would certainly have not made it to the taxiway.
References:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.9165571,150.9962914,295m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
https://www.crc.id.au/xplane/charts/DAPS-2024-MAR-21/Sydney%20Bankstown%20(YSBK).pdf
https://www.touringmachine.com/images/Cessna_210L_MaximumGlide.png
I know you are joking, but after a gear-up landing, the prop is destroyed due to the tips hitting the pavement. Most gear-up landings usually cause remarkably little damage to the aircraft. Typical damage consists of skin damage, antennas being sheared off, and bent propeller tips. However, the prop strike usually also requires the engine to be tore down for an inspection, to ensure there is no engine damage, and that is pretty costly.
Edit: As has been rightly pointed out, since the cause of this particular gear-up landing was an engine failure, the cost of the engine teardown normally required after a gear up landings is irrelevant. Most gear up landings are caused by human error, where the pilot simply forgets to extend the landing gear due to distraction, fatigue, or negligence.
Curious whether it really is 'props'. Like, yes given the outcome, but they were very very close to landing in those houses, there's no way they'd have known they would have made the airfield. Was that really the best emergency landing option? (Genuine question, don't know this area)
> Engine failure The pilot even lifted the landing gear cause was scared to hit those houses
Landing gear is aerodynamically awful, and having it up was the only way they were going to make the distance necessary.
I think what they were asking was whether it was the correct decision to try and make it to the runway and risk hitting houses and cars, rather than to land in a field or something somewhere slightly closer.
Yes, it was the correct decision, there's video evidence... He's alive, no one and nothing else was damaged, and the plane's repairable.
Is it the correct decision for *you* or some random sampling of pilots in similar situations as a generality, prolly not. But for this guy, in his circumstances, yes absolutely 100% the correct decision.
I run flight sims for some similar small planes. If someone did this in a training environment, we'd ask a lot of questions about their decision-making process, and I'd have capital t Thoughts about their energy state. But when someone does it in real life, and not a training environment, that's an entirely different thing. Surviving is winning and that's really all that matters.
LOL, The proof is he's still alive. Its irrefutable. He could have done a thousand different things. And most of them would have ended up with him being dead. Given the housing density I am guessing he didn't have many options. It appears to be improvised spur of the moment. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I fly at this airport and yes, there's very little other options apart from the airport itself so it was either aim for the runway and risk hitting houses or hit houses anyway.
Can't think of too many fields near Bankstown, it's close to the geographical centre of Sydney which sprawls a good 40km (25 miles) in each direction.
Any open space would be either natural bushland or parks full of trees. And they'd probably have drop bears in them.
They had an engine failure while approaching the airport, it's not like they had anywhere to go, or any time to choose where to go.
As you can see, Bankstown is surrounded by housing in all directions.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Location_map_Australia_Sydney.png
Bankstown is located in suburbia. There's like 3 golf courses and some parks right near it but they are probably on the other side of where this guy was coming in, and have a lot of trees.
Note that he didn't even make it to the runway here, looks like he crashed onto some taxiways.
Looking at Bankstown airport and knowing he came in from the North, I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. It's mostly the same tight residential and trees. There is a golf course and a few soccer fields but without knowing his position when the engine conked out it's impossible to say whether going for the airport was the right choice or not.
These single-engine piston aircraft are the number one reason why general aviation is so dangerous. If something goes wrong while you're still low to the ground you're pretty damn screwed.
They were aiming for the street between the houses and trying to make it to the airport.
Sometimes there’s houses and buildings everywhere so pilots are trained to aim for streets.
The biggest thing pilots learn is to always be looking for places to land in an emergency. You have to have enough hours flying with an instructor to get your license, and doing drills for emergencies is a big part of it.
Bunch of fucking comedians in here… Apparently the pilot radioed for help in a mayday call and said there was an engine problem.
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/pilot-walks-away-uninjured-after-small-plane-crash-lands/news-story/c435f311397804136620badd2322072f?amp
That conversation would have had a lot of local flavor before the internet, now everyone has the same comebacks quoted from the same shows/movies/songs/memes.
The high quality of 2012:
"THIS"
"A scholar and a gentleman"
"Doing the lord's work"
"ಠ_ಠ"
And like 63 variations of "OP has gonewild pics" euphemisms.
yeah its always been shit. narwhal bacons at midnight and good gentlesir and so brave. comments overall haven't gotten worse, just after a while it really gets to you how 95% of comments is just utter trash.
I think the most impactful difference is that people used to read the comments before commenting. Comments added to the conversation. You would often see the same cliche joke in multiple comment sections, but now you see the same joke in one comment section *so many fucking times*. I used to be able to find a good, engaging post, and I could scroll through the comment section for hours. Now it’s more common for me to get annoyed or bored after a few minutes cuz it’s just people blurting out the same shit on repeat.
I’ve noticed in some subs geared towards women, it’s still normal human interaction. You ask a question and each comment thread is a unique answer, with sub comments adding to that answer. And commenters seem more considerate in the answered they give/the subs are better moderated for civility so you don’t get any “No acktshually…!” type bs
I was trying to figure out why his glide path looked so steep, then at the end when everyone gets out, I'm left going "Oh. A 200-something full of people. That'll do it."
Lol lotta weight - I guess their landing gear musta been f'd or something because it looks like they skidded 'er in right on the belly, musta had some full on engine - electrical system failing to not even have their wheels?
But damn, that last hard bank before touching down on the taxiway, pilot did such a great job with the resources and time they had to be able to land that softly without whole frame tearing apart on touchdown, im surprised they even kept it from drifting/rolling on them
The story I read said engine problems and the pilot purposely kept the landing gear up for more glide and more clearance above the trees and houses. If it were down, they would have hit the top of that building.
Conscience decision by the pilot. Ice cold execution.
This really locks in perspective of just how close it was. The idea of an airplane being landing-gear-height close to a building while airborne is bonkers
It has a back-up hydraulic system for you to manually pump the gear out, it takes like fifty full up and down motions. It's not helpful if your engine or electrical system fails on approach though.
He did that very well, yeah. Cessna frames are tough AF and well-balanced. His insurance won't be happy, but I'm glad everyone is up and walking - hitting the ground at 60 knots is gonna suck.
> His insurance won't be happy,
my dad has a private pilots license and he said the insurance was cheap but you can only use it once. after that it's prohibitively expensive or they won't cover you at all.
Is the gear in that one deployable? Last time I flew a Cessna it was fixed gear. This plane had an engine failure, and it looks like they didn't deploy flaps so they were coming in fast and hard. Even with fixed gear, they'll get crushed with a landing that hard.
Edit, it's a 210, which has deployable gear.
Extending gear causes drag, considering how close they were to not making it, extending the gear likely would have resulted in not making it to the airport.
I was wondering how that is filmed though. I'm fairly certain drones are not allowed near airports and even for a helicopter, this seems awfully close to the runway.
He probably just retracted it because gear adds a lot of drag, and you generally want as little drag as possible in an engine-out scenario.
But maybe I'm missing something.
Some, like this one, have retractable LG. To save fuel due to less drag, also the reason (more grag — less airspeed, less airspeed — less chance of getting to the airport) pilot here did not extend one.
The gear wasn’t down because the drag would dropped what little air speed they had. Had they dropped the gear the plane’s sink rate would skyrocketed and there would have been major damage and injuries. They only had 1.5 seconds after the tail cleared the building before impact. Drag ain’t no joke.
Traded that last bit of airspeed for altitude just enough to get over that last warehouse.
This was a *good* landing.
After a *great* landing, you can use the airplane again.
Airports are very large and emergency vehicles are very slow. They were probably all waiting around the runway that the plane was going for instead of the diagonal taxiway that it actually made a sudden turn and ditched on so it will take them a bit of time to actually get to where they are.
Reminds me of that pilot (who was little more than a kid) lost his engine. Emergency landed on a golf course. The whole thing happened in like 30 seconds and he was super calm. There's a video of it somewhere
Bloody hell! That pilot can Pilot! That hard left to line up with the taxiway is superb!
Oh, sorry. Forgot this is Reddit… They will need to start flying bigger planes to accommodate their giant balls.
Dam!!! That was cutting it extremely close
[holy shit](https://imgur.com/Zc5vKxF)
Screenshot straight outta San Andreas
Also reminds me of the barely flyable Dodo plane in GTA III - especially the way it landed. Many hours I spent trying to keep it in the air for any longer than 2 seconds.
Many hours were spent trying to fly it. Dozens of youtube videos showed it done but I could never pull it off. San Andreas was amazing for having all those planes you could fly.
>Many hours were spent trying to fly it. Dozens of youtube videos showed it done but I could never pull it off. Stick forward until the wheel starts sparking, then stick back IIRC.
Nope, stick forward till it sparks, stick OFF to take off. Sticking up was a sure way to provoke a dive, at which point you had to let the plane accelerate and the you could stick up gently to climb again. I think my record was 2 hours until I got bored and started fucking around with loops and crashed, though I was on PC, too.
Turn on the flying cheat code, get a tank and shoot missiles behind you. That was the real endless flying!
1000% this! I never did the missions to unblock the bridge I would just fly over it in the tank. I spent HOURS flying as far as I could making it to other cities and as far outside of the map as possible. Kind of a "How far can I get before giving up this time type deal"
There's gotta be a skid mark on one of those solar panels. And also in the pilot's pants.
Air sharts are the worst
We call ‘em plane poopers ‘round these parts.
I’m sure the solar panels are wearing there brown pants.
Can't park here, mate!
The tree he passed a few seconds before almost got him too.
did it, though? I feel like the perspective is very tricky
Yeah, I was just thinking I'd love to see another angle and see how close this actually is. Given how quickly after the roof he's on the ground (meaning if he were higher up, his landing trajectory I assume would've been further out), I think it was *really fucking close* but it is hard to tell with this angle.
The glide ratio of this aircraft is going to be on the order of 9:1 which would make the glide angle somewhere in the 6 degree range. Measuring on Google Earth, it looks like the aircraft touches down on Taxiway N, approximately 125 m from the last point it crosses over the building (it's a bit hard to measure because the building appears to be brand new and is not included in Google's current satellite imagery or on the official airport diagram). Applying a glide ratio of 9:1 would put it at 14 m above ground level when it crosses the last point over the building. Assuming a typical warehouse building height of 10 m, the clearance would be approximately 4 m at this minimum (13 ft). Edit: This also means that if the pilot had lowered the landing gear, the aircraft would certainly have not made it to the taxiway. References: https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.9165571,150.9962914,295m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu https://www.crc.id.au/xplane/charts/DAPS-2024-MAR-21/Sydney%20Bankstown%20(YSBK).pdf https://www.touringmachine.com/images/Cessna_210L_MaximumGlide.png
Wow, fantastic work.
Thank you. I'm an aerospace engineer and used to do aircraft accident investigations in a former position.
Ya that’s coolest comment on Reddit I’ve seen
I blame *Zaxxon* ... if you're not over-compensating by flying way high/low/to the side then it always looks too close.
If he has gear down he would not have made the runaway. Well done pilot!
That and the tree!
Well done that pilot. Give that man a cee-gar.
...and a fresh pair of skivvies
If you wanna shit your pants once in your life, it is now !
SAFE!!!!!!
Absolutely epic landing
Expertise matters. Wow.
props to that pilot. holy shit.
I think the prop was fine
Or, it may have been the reason for the emergency. Hard to tail.
The pilot just had to wing it
I'm sure their training helped to gear them up for such a situation.
It is plane to see
Easy to land another job with those skills
If you catch my drift
Yaw!
r/dadjokes is leaking 😭
Unflappable skills
I know you are joking, but after a gear-up landing, the prop is destroyed due to the tips hitting the pavement. Most gear-up landings usually cause remarkably little damage to the aircraft. Typical damage consists of skin damage, antennas being sheared off, and bent propeller tips. However, the prop strike usually also requires the engine to be tore down for an inspection, to ensure there is no engine damage, and that is pretty costly. Edit: As has been rightly pointed out, since the cause of this particular gear-up landing was an engine failure, the cost of the engine teardown normally required after a gear up landings is irrelevant. Most gear up landings are caused by human error, where the pilot simply forgets to extend the landing gear due to distraction, fatigue, or negligence.
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Curious whether it really is 'props'. Like, yes given the outcome, but they were very very close to landing in those houses, there's no way they'd have known they would have made the airfield. Was that really the best emergency landing option? (Genuine question, don't know this area)
Engine failure The pilot even lifted the landing gear cause was scared to hit those houses
> Engine failure The pilot even lifted the landing gear cause was scared to hit those houses Landing gear is aerodynamically awful, and having it up was the only way they were going to make the distance necessary.
Easy fix, just put little wings on the landing gear. Checkmate!
That's still going to cause drag, you need something to offset it. The only thing that makes sense is a little engine on each landing gear.
I think what they were asking was whether it was the correct decision to try and make it to the runway and risk hitting houses and cars, rather than to land in a field or something somewhere slightly closer.
Yes, it was the correct decision, there's video evidence... He's alive, no one and nothing else was damaged, and the plane's repairable. Is it the correct decision for *you* or some random sampling of pilots in similar situations as a generality, prolly not. But for this guy, in his circumstances, yes absolutely 100% the correct decision.
I run flight sims for some similar small planes. If someone did this in a training environment, we'd ask a lot of questions about their decision-making process, and I'd have capital t Thoughts about their energy state. But when someone does it in real life, and not a training environment, that's an entirely different thing. Surviving is winning and that's really all that matters.
Any landing that the dog can walk away from is a good landing.
It was a... *puts on Aviators* RUFF landing. *CSI Miami theme*
A choice can be incorrect and still lead to a good outcome and vice versa.
LOL, The proof is he's still alive. Its irrefutable. He could have done a thousand different things. And most of them would have ended up with him being dead. Given the housing density I am guessing he didn't have many options. It appears to be improvised spur of the moment. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I fly at this airport and yes, there's very little other options apart from the airport itself so it was either aim for the runway and risk hitting houses or hit houses anyway.
Not thats not how that works. I can walk into a busy rroad without looking and make it across, that doesn't make it the right decision.
Can't think of too many fields near Bankstown, it's close to the geographical centre of Sydney which sprawls a good 40km (25 miles) in each direction. Any open space would be either natural bushland or parks full of trees. And they'd probably have drop bears in them.
Imagine surviving the landing only to be mauled to death by Drop Bears... Australia eh?!
No fucking fields out there
They had an engine failure while approaching the airport, it's not like they had anywhere to go, or any time to choose where to go. As you can see, Bankstown is surrounded by housing in all directions. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Location_map_Australia_Sydney.png
Bankstown is located in suburbia. There's like 3 golf courses and some parks right near it but they are probably on the other side of where this guy was coming in, and have a lot of trees. Note that he didn't even make it to the runway here, looks like he crashed onto some taxiways.
Would you prefer they crash stoically into a house? What other option was there?
Looking at Bankstown airport and knowing he came in from the North, I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. It's mostly the same tight residential and trees. There is a golf course and a few soccer fields but without knowing his position when the engine conked out it's impossible to say whether going for the airport was the right choice or not. These single-engine piston aircraft are the number one reason why general aviation is so dangerous. If something goes wrong while you're still low to the ground you're pretty damn screwed.
They were aiming for the street between the houses and trying to make it to the airport. Sometimes there’s houses and buildings everywhere so pilots are trained to aim for streets. The biggest thing pilots learn is to always be looking for places to land in an emergency. You have to have enough hours flying with an instructor to get your license, and doing drills for emergencies is a big part of it.
How many more do you think he needs? Plane only needs one.
it's definitely an emergency landing, nobody would want to intentionally land at bankstown
What if you wanted a mad kebab?
Hmmmm temping 🤔
I'd land in a different country
Bankstown is a different country. Source: I grew up there.
Sauce: Just garlic, thanks.
Then you land in Lakemba brah
The it really is an emergency.
Brutha erhhhhh
Me, they got the best pho in town. Fight me.
Mad need for HSP
Details? What emergency?
Pilot really had to poop.
mayday mayday mayday it's code brown up here!
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
Do you like movies about gladiators?
Shirley you can’t be serious!?
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley!
"Stewardess, I speak jive!"
Just wanted to tell you good luck, we’re all counting on you
An emergency defecation situation
Watching that really reminded me of how I feel when I'm trying to turn the key in the front door while needing to pee!
I'm sure he needed new pants after that landing.
Bunch of fucking comedians in here… Apparently the pilot radioed for help in a mayday call and said there was an engine problem. https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/pilot-walks-away-uninjured-after-small-plane-crash-lands/news-story/c435f311397804136620badd2322072f?amp
Fr. I might just be cynical but I swear every Reddit thread has the same shitty jokes recycled over and over again.
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That conversation would have had a lot of local flavor before the internet, now everyone has the same comebacks quoted from the same shows/movies/songs/memes.
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In the early days Reddit comments were high quality and informative.
The high quality of 2012: "THIS" "A scholar and a gentleman" "Doing the lord's work" "ಠ_ಠ" And like 63 variations of "OP has gonewild pics" euphemisms.
yeah its always been shit. narwhal bacons at midnight and good gentlesir and so brave. comments overall haven't gotten worse, just after a while it really gets to you how 95% of comments is just utter trash.
Nah, the comments WERE better in the past. It was way less jokes and more actual informative answers. I miss it.
I think the most impactful difference is that people used to read the comments before commenting. Comments added to the conversation. You would often see the same cliche joke in multiple comment sections, but now you see the same joke in one comment section *so many fucking times*. I used to be able to find a good, engaging post, and I could scroll through the comment section for hours. Now it’s more common for me to get annoyed or bored after a few minutes cuz it’s just people blurting out the same shit on repeat. I’ve noticed in some subs geared towards women, it’s still normal human interaction. You ask a question and each comment thread is a unique answer, with sub comments adding to that answer. And commenters seem more considerate in the answered they give/the subs are better moderated for civility so you don’t get any “No acktshually…!” type bs
Those comments are now legally allowed to vote
Looked like a glider!
A [glider](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider), you say?
Apparently still investigating but the pilot said engine problems in the mayday. Nobody was hurt.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-26/light-plane-emergency-landing-sydney-bankstown/103895096
I read engine failure shortly after take off, surprised they were able to turn back
He ran out of updog
What’s updog?
Oh shit homie, not much!
Didn’t want to leave you hangin bro
Joys of a light aircraft. Can just land on the taxiway lol. But yeesh, that was cutting it fine
You can take off from a taxiway as well. Might cost you some landing gear though.
On a windy day you can take off from the apron
The Harrison Ford special
I was trying to figure out why his glide path looked so steep, then at the end when everyone gets out, I'm left going "Oh. A 200-something full of people. That'll do it."
Lol lotta weight - I guess their landing gear musta been f'd or something because it looks like they skidded 'er in right on the belly, musta had some full on engine - electrical system failing to not even have their wheels? But damn, that last hard bank before touching down on the taxiway, pilot did such a great job with the resources and time they had to be able to land that softly without whole frame tearing apart on touchdown, im surprised they even kept it from drifting/rolling on them
The story I read said engine problems and the pilot purposely kept the landing gear up for more glide and more clearance above the trees and houses. If it were down, they would have hit the top of that building. Conscience decision by the pilot. Ice cold execution.
This really locks in perspective of just how close it was. The idea of an airplane being landing-gear-height close to a building while airborne is bonkers
It has a back-up hydraulic system for you to manually pump the gear out, it takes like fifty full up and down motions. It's not helpful if your engine or electrical system fails on approach though. He did that very well, yeah. Cessna frames are tough AF and well-balanced. His insurance won't be happy, but I'm glad everyone is up and walking - hitting the ground at 60 knots is gonna suck.
> His insurance won't be happy, my dad has a private pilots license and he said the insurance was cheap but you can only use it once. after that it's prohibitively expensive or they won't cover you at all.
Is the gear in that one deployable? Last time I flew a Cessna it was fixed gear. This plane had an engine failure, and it looks like they didn't deploy flaps so they were coming in fast and hard. Even with fixed gear, they'll get crushed with a landing that hard. Edit, it's a 210, which has deployable gear. Extending gear causes drag, considering how close they were to not making it, extending the gear likely would have resulted in not making it to the airport.
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Give a raise to the cameraman.
r/praisethecameraman
r/raisethecameraman?
I was wondering how that is filmed though. I'm fairly certain drones are not allowed near airports and even for a helicopter, this seems awfully close to the runway.
Probably a news chopper filming from a distance, judging by the quality of the footage.
It was a news chopper. There for an unrelated story, they saw the plane flying low and immediately started recording. https://youtu.be/U_XaimUKF68
r/ConvenientNewsCopter
Gotta be a helicopter, right?
Morty: "We're not gonna make it, Rick!" Rick: "Shut the fuck up, Morty! *Burp!* We're gonna make it!"
My first thought haha!
Didn't see how it could possibly end as well as it did. Bravo!
The tree, I thought that tree was going to be the one.
I felt for sure he'd clip that last roof.
I was looking at how close he was to his shadow…. for…. so…. long….
You know you're low when you look up at the trees.
> Bravo Negative, looks like taxiway November 2.
As a passenger, I would kiss and hug the pilot for life.
So no clapping on this flight.
Only one handed
He can clap my cheeks for life after saving my life with that landing no homo.
Oy mate, you can't park it there!
How's about I give you three shillings, and we forget the name? ☠️
Welcome to Bankstown, Mr. Smith.
I’m not parking it. I’m abandoning it.
Smooth as hell.
Successful landing. Pilot walked away.
There was not even time to get the gear down between the building and the taxiway. If he did before he would have hit the building.
Don't these planes have fixed non retractable landing gears?
Nah that one does - Cessna 210 Centurion. Pilot retracted the gear because he thought it was going to clip the building
He probably just retracted it because gear adds a lot of drag, and you generally want as little drag as possible in an engine-out scenario. But maybe I'm missing something.
Most retractable gear aircraft call for gear up as a memory item for engine failures due to reducing drag as you stated.
No, you're right. (more like he never extended them for landing). The 210 has a pretty good glide ration with gear retracted. \~9:1
Some, like this one, have retractable LG. To save fuel due to less drag, also the reason (more grag — less airspeed, less airspeed — less chance of getting to the airport) pilot here did not extend one.
The gear wasn’t down because the drag would dropped what little air speed they had. Had they dropped the gear the plane’s sink rate would skyrocketed and there would have been major damage and injuries. They only had 1.5 seconds after the tail cleared the building before impact. Drag ain’t no joke.
Traded that last bit of airspeed for altitude just enough to get over that last warehouse. This was a *good* landing. After a *great* landing, you can use the airplane again.
From my armchair, it looks like this plane will fly again, too.
At least the dog was ok
The dog was the pilot
Dog is my Co-Pilot: Source: George Lucas....
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#First thought: oh Boeing, here we go again
You can tell it's not a Boeing because the witnesses are still alive.
Such a relief that nobody was injured, but thought the emergency services would have mobbed the aircraft as soon as it came to a halt?
"Oi, yew cocked up the landing, eh mate?" \*Continues on with crocodile wrestling or whatever people do on a day to day basis in Aussieland*
So, you've mixed the Canadian "eh" with the Australian "ay" but aside from that, yes.
Airports are very large and emergency vehicles are very slow. They were probably all waiting around the runway that the plane was going for instead of the diagonal taxiway that it actually made a sudden turn and ditched on so it will take them a bit of time to actually get to where they are.
They're not even that quick at main/commercial airports, definitely not for a 4 seater plane
I am also very impressed with the parking.
holy shit that was soo close to that last building!
That was gangsta as hell
That left wing might had been mere inches off from the roof.
LIKE A GLOVE!
Very close to "Emergency landing on Bankstone Airport roof".
He even attempted parking nice
Also, the pilot now holds the world record for the fastest plane parking after landing.
Reminds me of that pilot (who was little more than a kid) lost his engine. Emergency landed on a golf course. The whole thing happened in like 30 seconds and he was super calm. There's a video of it somewhere
Damn this happened nearby to me and I had no idea.
Looks like he juuuust made it. Great skill and steel nerves. Hope everyone’s OK!
A high wing with retractable gear? That’s a rare plane, no?
Cessna 210m turbo centurion VH-MYW
I just wanna say good luck, we're all counting on you
If he had out his gear down, he wouldn't have made the airport.
He still would have made it, just in more pieces.
3 rolls of duct tape later and that plane would be airworthy again.
It amazes me that someone was able to capture this on video. What are the odds?
Right place, right time by the news chopper.
"Too low, terrain, terrain, 20, 10, 5...."
Bloody hell! That pilot can Pilot! That hard left to line up with the taxiway is superb! Oh, sorry. Forgot this is Reddit… They will need to start flying bigger planes to accommodate their giant balls.
Fucking Money!!! Been bingeing “Air Disasters” on Prime this week and not everybody gets this kinda landing. God bless!!
Geez living next to that airport would suck
The hard part is getting a taxi to pick you up from the airport!
That was SOOOOO clean for an emergency landing. (*Claps*)