![]() 09/13/2016 at 07:55 • Filed to: Planelopnik | ![]() | ![]() |
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! suffered gear failure after a hard landing in West Papua, Indonesia today. No injuries except to the 737. Will not buff out.
![]() 09/13/2016 at 08:05 |
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Hopefully the cargo made it and diesel wasn’t splashed everywhere in the cabin.
Flightglobal had a few aftermath pics:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/…
![]() 09/13/2016 at 08:50 |
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I’d digging that -200 (or maybe even a -100?) waiting for takeoff. Don’t see many of those any more. At least I don’t.
![]() 09/13/2016 at 09:31 |
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And here we have the understatement of the day: “..left the left main gear behind...”
I have to imagine that plane is a total loss. It can’t be cost effective to replace both main gears and both engines on a 30 year old airframe, can it? Never mind the likely structural damage to the airframe from hitting hard enough to tear off the left main and collapse the right main.
![]() 09/13/2016 at 11:47 |
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I have seen some pretty heroic fixes, but that one is probably toast.
![]() 09/13/2016 at 11:48 |
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Looks like a -200. It also has hush kits.