Always better to land with the mains down or with them up if
wing and nose. But A proper pre-flight and maintenance
reduces the issue to a rare case. But then lots of people
don't do the maintenance they should do.


"buttman" wrote in message
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| On Feb 16, 9:25 am, "Al G"
wrote:
| "Jim Macklin"
wrote in message
|
| ...
|
| "other three?" Who knew the Arrow had 4 ?
|
| And isn't "three gear get stuck in the down
position." what you want?
|
| Al G
|
|
|
| "buttman" wrote in message
|
roups.com...
| |http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/
| |
| | click on "emergency response to troubled plane"
| |
| | An arrow tried to bounce the plane on the runway to
get
| the stuck
| | landing gear to come down, but all it did was make
the
| other three
| | gear get stuck in the down position.
| |
|
| gah. I meant to say the Arrow has 1 gear that was stuck
up, and the
| other two were down. After the bouceing (which I have
never heard of
| anyone doing), the two that he was able to get down, were
then stuck
| in the down position. I was always under the impression
that it's
| better to land on the plan's belly (with no gear down)
than it is to
| land with only 2 of the 3 gear down.
|