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captkramer

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Looks like Avantair had another gear mishap today, this time at TEB.

The unofficial word from tower was that one of the tires blew but the controller wasn't there to witness the incident. The plane ended up pointing north right in the middle of runway 24. Closed down the runway for at least an hour and forced TEB to use runway 19 for arrivals and departures along with everyone's favorite, the Dalton 19 departure.

Here's what I managed to get for a pic:
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i130/nhpilot01/p180.jpg

Anyone have anymore details? Seems to be becoming a common occurrence in the Piaggio.
 
So the last time something happened they made some knee jerk rule that FO's can only fly during certain times. Now they going to say the Capts cant fly either that only the pax can land the silly thing???

Looks like a gear design issue.
 
As a fly on the wall listening to Ops/Line svc. the SL was cleared for takeoff at the same time as a cirrus (i think) was cleard for takeoff on the other runway. The SL crew saw the plane as they came up on the intersection and screached to a stop blowing tires, etc... As always no one is talking. Probably not enough bent metal to justify a major write up but it must've been hairy from the look of how the plane was sitting on the runway.
 
icefr8dawg said:
As a fly on the wall listening to Ops/Line svc. the SL was cleared for takeoff at the same time as a cirrus (i think) was cleard for takeoff on the other runway. The SL crew saw the plane as they came up on the intersection and screached to a stop blowing tires, etc... As always no one is talking. Probably not enough bent metal to justify a major write up but it must've been hairy from the look of how the plane was sitting on the runway.
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Yeah, sounds like it was probably the FOs fault... Probably shouldn't fly within Class B ever again...

Glad to hear everyone was alright. :)
 
No gear failure at all...and absolutely NOT the FO's fault!! Tower cleared both airplanes for takeoff and they aborted to miss the cirrus which resulted in 2 blown tires...that's it....no gear collapse or anything else wrong!!!
 
OK now, not to piss on this plummeting of Avantair which shouldn't surprise anyone, but the last post is right. It would appear to be a error by the tower controller that almost resulted in a catastrophe. Only the quick action of the crew averted a disaster. I haven't heard anyone in that office even talking about taking action against the crew, unless you mean patting them on the back.
 
captkramer said:
Looks like Avantair had another gear mishap today, this time at TEB.

The unofficial word from tower was that one of the tires blew but the controller wasn't there to witness the incident. The plane ended up pointing north right in the middle of runway 24. Closed down the runway for at least an hour and forced TEB to use runway 19 for arrivals and departures along with everyone's favorite, the Dalton 19 departure.

Here's what I managed to get for a pic:
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i130/nhpilot01/p180.jpg

Anyone have anymore details? Seems to be becoming a common occurrence in the Piaggio.
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Hey Pilatus Captain just fly your single engine POS and stop trying to talk smack about somewhere you don't even work, and a plane you don't even fly!!!
 
I spoke with someone who was at the scene and his comment is that the pilot at the controls of the Avanti should be commended for doing an amazing job avoiding the Cirrus. Aircraft have never been known for being agile at high speeds on the ground - whoever was flying that Avanti very obviously did one heck of a job.
 
Rerouted said:
I spoke with someone who was at the scene and his comment is that the pilot at the controls of the Avanti should be commended for doing an amazing job avoiding the Cirrus. Aircraft have never been known for being agile at high speeds on the ground - whoever was flying that Avanti very obviously did one heck of a job.
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Absolutely!!
 
I get to hear about yet another 'Training Incident' in the next conference call.

Kudos to the crew for taking care of themselves! :beer:



Back to my Pilatus POS.......;)
 
The crew of that Piaggio are complete and total bad-a$$es for avoiding that collision. The Cirrus pilot owes his life to them, and the only guy who might have to go job hunting is the controller.

Hats off to the crew!!!
 
a-pilot said:
No gear failure at all...and absolutely NOT the FO's fault!! Tower cleared both airplanes for takeoff and they aborted to miss the cirrus which resulted in 2 blown tires...that's it....no gear collapse or anything else wrong!!!
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Clearly you don't understand sarcasm. Re-read OYS's post - it sounds pretty sarcastic to me.
 
captkramer said:
Looks like Avantair had another gear mishap today, this time at TEB.

The unofficial word from tower was that one of the tires blew but the controller wasn't there to witness the incident. The plane ended up pointing north right in the middle of runway 24. Closed down the runway for at least an hour and forced TEB to use runway 19 for arrivals and departures along with everyone's favorite, the Dalton 19 departure.

Here's what I managed to get for a pic:
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i130/nhpilot01/p180.jpg

Anyone have anymore details? Seems to be becoming a common occurrence in the Piaggio.
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I smell two unemployed pilots...poor bastards
 

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