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bluethunder28 · **Joined:** Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:26 am **Posts:** 199

Pliot to tower... I was only following the F-86!!!

A B-1B Lancer made a wheels-up belly landing at Diego Garcia Monday, skidding down the runway for 7,500 feet, according to Air Force reports. The four-person aircrew escaped from the plane. The B-1B was home based with the 7th Bomb Wing, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.

The 20-year-old bomber was landing at Diego Garcia, a remote base in the Indian Ocean, at the end of a ferry mission that started at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. The Air Force wonâ€™t say why the crew landed the plane with its landing gear retracted.

Elwyn · **Posted:** Sat May 27, 2006 12:37 am

How do you slide 7500 feet with all of that friction? Hydroplaning maybe? :?:

P.S. How do you type "wonâ€™t" without copying and pasting?

frankspeaks · **Joined:** Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:52 pm **Posts:** 160

mister bubble....

in that photo it looks like the foam has been washed off already.

bluethunder28 · **Joined:** Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:26 am **Posts:** 199

Elwyn wrote:

P.S. How do you type "wonâ€™t" without copying and pasting?

Yeah it's from an email that I got. The pic is larger in the email. Looks like it rained.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat May 27, 2006 12:15 pm

Quote:

How do you slide 7500 feet with all of that friction?

It's called momentum!

vernicator · **Joined:** Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:42 am **Posts:** 350

bluethunder28 wrote:

Elwyn wrote:

P.S. How do you type "wonâ€™t" without copying and pasting?

Yeah it's from an email that I got. The pic is larger in the email. Looks like it rained.

Bigger picture overe here:

http://taiwanmilitary.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9526&view=next&sid=d3f654fe5d5c1a8a522b6ff57043cf85

Elwyn · **Posted:** Sat May 27, 2006 1:29 pm

Looks like it ground away a good bit of the engines.

vanguard · **Joined:** Sat Apr 16, 2005 3:00 am **Posts:** 114

When it rains it POURS.
And then the S**T will roll down the hill. Some military careers will be ending over this one.

Elwyn · **Posted:** Sun May 28, 2006 3:38 am

You have to wonder if it was a mechanical problem or possibly a buzz-job that got too low. Do they still do that sort of thing?

Cking · **Posted:** Sun May 28, 2006 3:56 am

Can't wait to see the mess underneath.

Rgds Cking

Randy Haskin · **Posted:** Sun May 28, 2006 5:04 am

Elwyn wrote:

You have to wonder if it was a mechanical problem or possibly a buzz-job that got too low. Do they still do that sort of thing?

My vote is "forgot to lower the gear".

airnutz · **Posted:** Sun May 28, 2006 10:16 am

vanguard wrote:

Some military careers will be ending over this one.

Maybe a bad slap on the wrist? The most recently appointed USAF Liasons TDY to Diego Garcia for an indefinite period? :roll:

I was under the impression these "modern" birds had all the bells and whistles helping to prevent such incidents.
Of course, if it was a female 'puter... "Lower your LG", "Lower your LG", "Did you lower your LG, DEARRR?"
They may have tuned her out..just like home? :oops:

Randy Haskin · **Posted:** Sun May 28, 2006 5:39 pm

airnutz wrote:

I was under the impression these "modern" birds had all the bells and whistles helping to prevent such incidents.
Of course, if it was a female 'puter... "Lower your LG", "Lower your LG", "Did you lower your LG, DEARRR?"
They may have tuned her out..just like home? :oops:

Here's my answer...from a recent thread here on WIX about Snort Snodgrass' F-86 gear-up landing:

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... c&start=15

Quote:

I have seen gear-up landings in $30 million F-15Es and $3 million T-38s where there was nothing wrong with the jet other than the gear handle wasn't in the "down" position. The audible warnings in both those jets were completely functional and going off at the time of "landing" (as was the red light in the gear handle, but the three green gear lights were conspicuously not illuminated).

Bottom line is, mistakes happen even given systems to prevent those mistakes.

I don't know any details about this incident, but it certainly would not surprise me if it were 100% crew error. It CAN happen...even with multiple pilots on board and systems to prevent it from happening.

Paul Krumrei · **Joined:** Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:06 pm **Posts:** 1757

Heard from my still active buddies, yup, it was a Pilot to Co-Pilot "Did you remember to put the gear down?" Co-Pilot to Pilot "Whats that grinding sound?" landing.

Spitty · **Posted:** Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:02 am

Confucious say it is known that when you need full military power to taxi to hardstand,your undercarriage is still up. :lol:

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