Originally Posted by
shamrok
Considering my buddy was on the flight and listening to what he said as well as some of the passengers it appears that the landing was VERY hard and the left main collapsed which caused the plane to veer off to the left of the runway into the snow. The fog was pretty heavy so who knows, sounds like whoever was conducting the approach might have flared way to late once the runway was aquired. Again, who knows, we all know fog can be thick as pea soup one second and then clear the next thanks to wind.
Flaring too late?? eek...I'm seeing that Jazz -200 in my head - honestly, really can't see that happening state-side?? Just can't imagine landing that thing so hard. But I
can see side-loading her enough to collapse a gear...Took her into a gusting 35-knot quartering x-wind last week for the first time. And I won't lie - at the ten foot call I was lined up w/CL using the rudder, and cranked aileron as much as I dared...it was not easy watching the CL start disappearing off the left-side of the a/c and knowing there wasn't anything to do but side-load the thing. Mustn't have been easy in PVD
Originally Posted by
SAABaroowski
Yeah cause Colgan only hires high-time guys.................
SAAB...I won't lie - knee-jerk your new Avatar makes me laugh...but deep down it disturbs me!
Originally Posted by
SharkAir
Every time I see the title of this thread, I hear "Wonderful Tonight" in my head.
Thanks...now I do too LoL
