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December 18, 2006

How not to land your expensive plane

Some interesting photos from the recovery efforts after a wheels-up landing of a B-1B "Lancer" from the highly idiosyncratic website of the Provisional Peoples' Democratic Republic of Diego Garcia:

DG_B1B_Recovery.jpg

H/T to "John the Mc".

Posted by Nicholas at December 18, 2006 11:08 AM
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The kicker is that they forgot to lower the gear, despite the fact that checking "3 green" on the gear indicator has been a staple of pre-landing checklists since retractable gear was invented. It is not uncommon for military (but not civil) tower controllers to remind them to "check 3 green" either. Posted by: Chris Taylor at December 20, 2006 10:05 AM


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