Landing Gear Collapses As Plane Lands At Easterwood

Did I hear the reporter right?
"...the pilot walked away unarmed."

Did anyone else on the forum have any emergencies during PPL training that made you think twice about flying?

Got photos of a near mid-air between two 152's when I was working on my commercial. Less than 100ft apart and they didn't seen each other. I'd post a pic but the forum won't let me.

I wouldn't be surprised if he was coming in too fast and touched down too hard on the nose gear first. Pilot error is far more likely than mechanically error when you're talking about student pilots.

This happened at KLUK in a SR-20. Student and instructor, normal landing nose gear touched down and snapped. Failed at the attachment point at the fuselage. I saw the plane in the hangar and know the mechanics. I guess it was damaged by a previous renter, hard to spot a slightly bent nose "strut" if you can even call it that.

They were the unlucky ones that took it up next. Totaled the motor but they did get a sweet new four bladed prop out of it from insurance.


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Yeah this. The chances of nose gear collapse on any single engine Cessna are negligible without the pilot wheel barrowing it. The oleo strut itself is designed to allow enough room for prop clearance in the event of total pressure loss. It's a rugged assembly and it takes a real pounding to collapse it. I have seen it happen a time or two, though.

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Works good. You are approved for the Photo forum now.

^^^^^ It looks like due to the budget cuts the Thunderbirds decided to fly 152's to save on costs and that's just them practicing the head to head knife edge pass.

Usually pretty easy to tell if it was overstress or a previous damage issue. It doesn't take but about 2 nosewheel touchdowns during a porpoise event and the nosegear breaks right off the firewall on the next oscillation. I can't believe the people who would try to 3-point tricycle airplanes when I was flying. It just blew my mind how close they tried to get to the ground in a level attitude, trying as hard as they could to set up a porpoise.