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Pilot narrowly avoids plane crash with some nifty flying skills at air show
Chris Götke overcomes 'mechanical difficulties' to bring classic jet fighter safely to ground, averting a tragedy with a crash landing. (www.mirror.co.uk) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Hey, they got "classic" and "fighter" correct. Two out of three isn't bad when it comes to media accuracy.
Better than average... LOL
To those saying he lowered the landing gear late...I don't know a lot about this aircraft, but it looks like he was using the emergency gear down system. These systems often take a great deal of physical effort and time to complete the cycle, and the lowered gear adds drag to your glide in an engine failure scenario. These were probably luxuries he was not afforded in a low altitude airshow setting. His first and only priority is to make it to the runway without killing anyone. With that established, he should try to survive it himself. Once all that is assured, go ahead and make minimal attempts to save the aircraft if you can. Looks like that's exactly what he did. Let the insurance company worry about the plane. A great performance.
No criticism intended as the pilot clearly did a great job, but I suspect that had he lowered the u/c 5 seconds earlier it would have been "down and locked" rather than down.
Kudos to Chris for fantastic job in minimizing the damage to the airplane!
Kudos to Chris for fantastic job in minimizing the damage to the airplane!
If it didn't lock, at least he hopefully would have had an indication that it wasn't. It does seem that he waited awful late to lower the gear. That is probably fairly standard for those old birds but like you, I still think he was a tad late. Don't really appear to be a malfunction, just not quite enough time for the cycle.
Agree