Saturday, February 7, 2009

C-17 Belly Landing


Talk about a bad day, a C-17 landing at of Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, made a belly landing on Wednesday of this week. After much effort the big boy was raised and cleared off the runway. I wonder if the crew was wondering about the noise of the gear warning horn blaring that was silenced. Purely speculation on my part but it’s a little hard to believe that in the event of a total gear malfunction a C-17 does not have some kind of alternate extension method that forces the gear door open and allows the gear to deploy. I’ve never worked heavies so I don’t know if they have this system. Judging by some of the crew related accidents over the last few years I would not be surprised if there was a little crew coordination problem.

(Photo USAF)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

TALK ABOUT A BAD DAY! YOU GOT SOME SPLAINING TO DO LUCY!!!

billmill said...

I've heard through the back door that they did not put the gear down and silinced the gear warning horn. I guess we will just have to wait for the accident board