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Touchdown! Greaser!
The gear wouldn’t come down so he had to land on the Highway. Must be a little more to the story. https://www.witn.com/2022/08/01/no-...ncy-landing-washington-county/?outputType=amp
I did not understand this either. Why would the engine stop and the gear fail to deploy? The gear will deploy without the engine running. PLus, The emergency gear deployment is pretty robust. Gravity is on your side. Glad he was OK. My insurance just went up though.The gear wouldn’t come down so he had to land on the Highway. Must be a little more to the story. https://www.witn.com/2022/08/01/no-...ncy-landing-washington-county/?outputType=amp
Yeah. Musta been an engine failure. The news made it sound like the gear failure is what caused the off airport landing. Thought I’d just start right out with silly reporting and get it over with. I can’t tell if the prop is bentI did not understand this either. The emergency gear deployment is pretty robust. Gravity is on your side.
The news also called it a Piper Cub. In the picture I saw the prop did not look bent. I don’t think will ever find out what actually was going on but I do find the whole thing curious. He did at least have the presence of mind to put the flaps down.Yeah. Musta been an engine failure. The news made it sound like the gear failure is what caused the off airport landing. Thought I’d just start right out with silly reporting and get it over with. I can’t tell if the prop is bent
The gear wouldn’t come down so he had to land on the Highway. Must be a little more to the story. https://www.witn.com/2022/08/01/no-...ncy-landing-washington-county/?outputType=amp
The news also called it a Piper Cub. In the picture I saw the prop did not look bent. I don’t think will ever find out what actually was going on but I do find the whole thing curious. He did at least have the presence of mind to put the flaps down.
One assumes that a pilot made rational decisions.