If there is any aircraft to do what those guys did and not damage the airplane, the Jungle Jet is it. It has a ventral strake located right between the main gear wells that protects the fuel tanks should it be neccessary to land with one or no main gears. Here is a clear pic:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1221239/L/
The beacon was probably mangled and they put some big scratches on the strake, but otherwise from the pic, it looks like that was the only damage. The jungle jet is a tough lil bird.
What I don't understand is, is it me or do the flaps look like they are up? In a go-around that low, I don't think the flaps can retract that fast....
The reason I say that is, normally, b$tching betty will warn you that your gear is not down, which is not silencable, UNLESS the RA is inop/MELed, then it will give you a gear not down warning at something like 9xxx ft, which IS defeatable. The warning would come back again once flaps were lowered to 22 or 45, but if it wasn't, then b$tching betty would stay silent.
If the nose gear doors are open (it's the only moving gear doors on the ERJ), then most likely the pilots had selected it down, but I guess the question is did they verify down, 3 green?
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1221239/L/
The beacon was probably mangled and they put some big scratches on the strake, but otherwise from the pic, it looks like that was the only damage. The jungle jet is a tough lil bird.
What I don't understand is, is it me or do the flaps look like they are up? In a go-around that low, I don't think the flaps can retract that fast....
The reason I say that is, normally, b$tching betty will warn you that your gear is not down, which is not silencable, UNLESS the RA is inop/MELed, then it will give you a gear not down warning at something like 9xxx ft, which IS defeatable. The warning would come back again once flaps were lowered to 22 or 45, but if it wasn't, then b$tching betty would stay silent.
If the nose gear doors are open (it's the only moving gear doors on the ERJ), then most likely the pilots had selected it down, but I guess the question is did they verify down, 3 green?
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