Flybe Nose Wheel Belfast

[Cacophonix]

Flye nose wheel issue. Looks like the crew made a very good fist of the landing. Avherald reports one slightly injured and I guess the rest of the passengers may only have had their coffee lightly stirred.

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A Flybe plane has crashed with its nose down at Belfast international airport following an emergency landing.

Flight BE331 to Inverness suffered technical difficulties after it took off from Belfast City/George Best airport around 11.20am on Friday.

It was forced to circle the city and dump fuel to reduce weight before coming into Belfast international, according to Flybe.

After landing nose-down on the runway around 1.30pm fire engines rushed to the plane. There were 52 passengers and four crew members on board the flight.A Flybe spokesperson said: “Our primary concern is for the welfare of the passengers and crew. All statements relating to this incident will be posted.”

So far there has been no information about any possible injuries caused by the emergency landing.

http://avherald.com/h?article=4b0d7885&opt=0

Caco

[Cacophonix]

The Dash 8-400 seems to be a flying landing gear incident generator...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_8_la ... _incidents

Caco

[om15]

G-JEDU was built in 2004 and has clocked around 25,000 hours, short sectors, probably about the same number of landings.
Plenty of gear problems on the Q400, particularly on a high utilisation fleet, from the photo the doors have operated properly but the gear has hung up, text book landing, be flying again very soon.
Often in these sort of incidents the actual damage is not too bad, but secondary damage in moving the aircraft by inexperienced people having to clear the aircraft off the runway quickly is caused.

[Capetonian]

Wait for the Daily Mangle to get hold of this.

"Hundreds of passengers on a Fly Bea propeller jet prayed for their lives after the front of the aircraft disintegrated and the plane had to make an emergency crash landing on the runway at Belfast, narrowly missing a busy shopping centre in nearby Dublin as it skimmed city rooftops on its approach over the terrorist occupied Shankill Road area of the city .............."

[compo]

Where was that kid with the pick-up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdFd9AVlIOQ

[Capetonian]

A hero pilot has been praised after a Flybe aircraft dramatically crash landed in Belfast without its front wheel - the airline's second landing gear failure in months.

When will these tossers understand the difference between a crash and a landing?

[ian16th]

This was a case of Controlled Flight Onto Terrain, in this case a selected, flat piece of terrain, called a runway!

[Ibbie]

The aircraft was finaly flown back to Exeter in the last couple of weeks.