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Ice Pilots NWT emergency landing

K

kilo delta

Charter Member 2015
A Buffalo Air Electra made a safe emergency landing yesterday after suffering landing gear problems...


Yellowknife, N.W.T. - The owner of Buffalo Airways is thankful everything turned out safely for everyone involved yesterday.


Buffalo's Electra plane was forced to make an emergency landing at the Yellowknife Airport after one of its landing gear malfunctioned.


The landing was successful and all six people on board were safe and sound.


Joe McBryan said the crew did everything right.


“They followed all the procedures in their training and their exercises,” he said. “They did everything possible and the result is they got the aircraft down with as minimal amount of damage as you could possibly do under those circumstances.”


McBryan says the plane flew overhead for about an hour to burn off fuel and lighten the plane, but the crew was also taking that time for something else.


“They were using that time to go through all the emergency drills,” he said. “I was on the phone to people making sure we weren’t missing anything that we could have done to alleviate the problem. As it turned out, they made the right decision.”


McBryan also said everyone in the vicinity of the airport, including the military, offered help and he's thankful for the offers.
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http://hqyellowknife.com/news/local...raises-staff-for-successful-emergency-landing

Pics here...

http://imgur.com/a/uFkOP

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Odd, the article doesn't really say what the malfunction was... I am presuming the gear didn't come down. If that's the case, I am not sure why you wouldn't just come out and say that.

-witt
 
It looks like it was a gearbox failure on the no4 engine I think which broke off with the prop hitting the no3 engine and its prop, damaging them and the wing and the gear doors underneath. Undercarriage itself looks ok to me. It's going to be an expensive repair job considering the damage.
 
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