"Louis L. Perley III" wrote in message
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I've heard of this being done before, but this is the first I've seen.

They drove a Jeep under the plane to check out why the landing gear
would not lock, then they used a stick to push the gear forward so it
would lock (Cessna RG, not sure if it's a 172/182)

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4982688/detail.html

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Louis Perley
N370

Reading the story, I hated to see:

"The airport will now investigate to see if the impromptu in-flight
inspection broke any major rules."

The fact is that the New Smyrna airport is under pressure by locals to close
the airport. This investigation either sounds like an appeasement move to
that faction, or maybe, the "airport" (Who's that, anyway, the airport
authority?) is looking to give ammunition to the NIMBY's.

As someone else said, this act was dumb as a box of rocks, and the less that
"the airport" says about it, the better.