B1 Gear up

[mules83]

I didn't see this posted so here is the story.

Someone lost their wings....

http://www.ravenware.com/factand/nofic/b1pics/gurec/index.html

 

[TurnandBurn55]

How this happens in any multi-crew aircraft is beyond me.

 

[GMan1976]

i wonder how much THAT cost the taxpayers...... sigh.

 

[jai5w4]

Amazing how that can happen.

I heard a story about the first retractable gear Pipers and how the CEO of the company flew the first 2 sorties of the new plane and landed TWICE with the gear up, simply b/c he had "never had to put the gear down before..."

On a related note (somewhat), this is what happens when you do construction on a runway and don't file a NOTAM. Luckily only injuries, not deaths, as a result:

 

[STLEngineer]

Edit: Regarding the B-1

Wow, that's quite a divot it dug in the runway...

You think they'd have some logic built into the system that if there was weight on the wheels that they wouldn't retract like that.

 

[BigIron]

At least the B-1 was on centerline.

 

[1rotorhead]

The divot caused the gear to get sheared off.

 

[Brett327]

Isn't this the one that was posted a while back. As I recall, it was an intentional (I.E. they didn't just forget) gear up landing, but I can't remember the details.

Brett

 

[scoober78]

On a totally unrelated note...Damn...the B1 is a sexy machine. Much less so as it attempts to plow up concrete...but damn.

 

[whitesoxnation]

it looks like a dead shark or somethin...

 

[Schnugg]

B-1...intentional gear up landing. (dupe)

Prop Job...oops.

 

[jai5w4]

Mc-130h

 

[Carno]

The pics of the B-1 are old old old. What I read of it was that the landing gear failed, not that the crew forgot to put it down.

 

[STLEngineer]

The divot underneath is in a very small area, and you can see where the landing gear doors scraped the concrete.

The pic with the gear coming out and the doors flying open shows a lot of debris coming out (like it was trapped), making me thing the gear was retracted in and the doors scraped up some concrete while closing.

Those things made it appear to me as if the gear closed while nearly stationary.

 

[MasterBates]

I think the divot is from the nose sitting on it while hot. Hot metal can cause concrete to spall.