Did ya'll see this?

http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html

I wonder where the Air Force Captain is flying out of Now? The South Pole?

Wasn't there a line in Top Gun, after he pulled is "fly by" stunt, where the c.o. told him if he ever did that again, he would be "flyin rubber dog turds out of China" or something close to that anyway. LOL :rolleyes:

Actually, and truthfully, the PIC was promoted shortly after this incident. Hard to believe, but true.

I guess they didn,t see all the alarms going off before landing. Any landing is a good landing, right? Gary

That bird held up very well concidering. It almost looks repairable, ya think they try to repair it or not?

For the non-pilots one of the interesting points about this landing is that at military landing sites, even those co-mingled with private aviation the controllers generally ask military flights "Gear down and locked?"

So this sounds like the distraction prior to landing and the apparent failure of the flight crew to use the pre-landing checklist, and the failure of the controller to verify the gear was down all contributed to the oversight that we get to pay for.

Do you remember an old safety poster, looking out over a runway.. there are fire scorched parts & debris scattered for as far as you can see.. and the caption says..

"Even a bad approach can be salvaged"

LOL..

Geez, even my Arrow had the "magic hand".

And the Bonanza has a horn that will wake the dead if you reduce the manifold pressure below 15 with the gear up. Surely a $285,000,000.00 plane has a similar system.