G-BCDO Emergency Landing at Schiphol

[Viscount Cornbank]

Hadn't seen this before

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzQ6LZri4eU

cheers

Fraser

[DaveB]

Ooo

Nice it being in Dutch.. you can make the story up as you go along

Don't recall having seen that before either (though to be honest.. I usually steer clear of crashes)

ATB

DaveB

[airboatr]

funny, the spokesman ( whoever) giving the details at the news briefing was sweating bullets but the pilot was all cool as a cucumber.

[Garry Russell]

Nope...never see that before

Thanks Fraser

The aircraft made one more flight..........after temp repairs it was flown back to Norwich and scrapped.

[Archer]

You didn't miss much Dave, I'm sure the story you made up is quite close to what was said

Basically a defect on the right main gear was discovered during the flight and the captain notified Schiphol. The aircraft then flew around over the North Sea for an hour and a half to burn up fuel (one reporter states that it was dumped, but a F-27 does not have that option). Cabin crew and 17 passengers were seated as far back as possible. The captain performed a smooth landing as shown, the spokesperson for Schiphol comments on that fact actually, that the landing was very skillfully performed. I don't know why that would make him sweat so much. Later on you can see the recovery where they tried to minimize extra damage to the right wing by using a jack in addition to the crane.

That's a loose and quick translation of the whole episode (it's two or three reports combined so there's a lot of repetition).

[nigelb]

Thanks for the translation! I did recognize a few words here and there - Amsterdam, Schipol and Stanstead. Oh and a couple of words that sounded like German and probably have similar meaning in both languages.

Nigel²