Pure coincidence?. Two Iberia Regional planes suffered the same emergency in the same airport, within 24 hours. Landing on their belly in Barcelona. First a Dash8 coming from Pamplona and carrying 19 passengers, and yesterday a CRJ with 40 passengers. Odd, isn´t it?.
Source: http://www.lavanguardia.es
By: keltic - 26th January 2007 at 11:38
There are a few things that makes me think. Passengers in the CRJ, were not told that they were doing a belly landing. My initial question. Shouldn´t the crew prepar passengers for it?. Embrace, and take off glasses and that stuff.
Or no told as the passengers told. Was the pilot aware that the landing gear was still retracted?. Shouldn´t there be warnings in the cockpit?. Iberia Regional is pretty safe with hundreds of flights per week with no incidences, but this makes one think.
My mother had a very bad experience last winter as she was flying home from Seville. At night at poor weather conditions, low clouds, no visibility, the lights were off. The CRJ suffered a total loss of power. She told that there was no light anywhere, all dark. In the middle of the clouds. The pilot went up again, and circle, to consume the fuel left over the sea. Then they went down, with strong turbulences, and no sight of lights down on earth.
It was a funny feeling, like staying into a dark washing machine. It seems the tower had to instruct the pilot about how to land. The crew calmed the passengers, but there was a strange feeling in the 35 passengers on board.
By: andrewm - 25th January 2007 at 15:05
The Dash 8 would appear to be a collapsed nose gear while the CRJ would appear to be a belly landing. I must say well done to CRJ pilot – i believe it takes alot of skill to sucessfully complete a belly landing with the minimal amount of damage as seen to CRJ!
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January 25, 2007 at 2:24 pm