Classic British Flight Sim

An An-12;



Not my pic but I was there to watch it (& get delayed by 12hrs)

Oooooooooooooh, Nasty

Graham

Good job that happened on the ground, eh ?

THnaks for that

Where was it?

Garry

"I told you not to put the props into reverse while airborne! Only those Yanks are stupid enough to pull it off and survive..."

It was a hard landing. Understanding is that everyone walked away.

Just goes to show how much stress the undercarriage can take.

Chris Trott wrote: It was a hard landing. Understanding is that everyone walked away.

Ahh..in that case it could only have happened on the ground anyway. :doho:

Paul K wrote:Good job that happened on the ground, eh ?

We were parked pointing towards the runway, fairly close to it (so had a fairly good view). I was busy doing some paperwork so didn't watch it land but the skipper shouted that it was on fire as it went past us during its landing roll.

Apparently the crew said that as they touched down the fire had already taken hold inside, dont know if they'd seen it before then but it may well have been a diversion as it landed with no PPR etc.

Chris Trott wrote:It was a hard landing. Understanding is that everyone walked away.

Erm, no it wasn't... They did all walk away from it though. (or rather run as fast as they could I'd imagine )

Garry, it was at Bagram (about 25 miles North of Kabul) (OAIX / BPM).

Rgds
Richard

Poor thing :sad: