Classic British Flight Sim

Hadn't seen this before

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

cheers

Fraser

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

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

Nope...never see that before

Thanks Fraser

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

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).

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