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Cessna 404 Emergency Landing, Mountain Home Airport, Arkansas - Cabin View - 2:15
This video was shot on Dec 14th after a hydraulic line failure in our 404 Titan forced us to make an emergency landing with the gear up. The emergency blow down bottle had a valve malfunction as well so there was no option available from that point on other than to find a place to sit it down. At the end of the slide down the runway there was a small fire on-board which I extinguished before exiting the aircraft with my crew member closely on my six." TitanMan404/Youtube (www.youtube.com) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
As someone much wiser than me once said: A gear-up landing is an emergency landing. An engine-out landing is an emergency landing. Why would you ever want to add a second emergency to the one you already have? The moment that you have a major problem the airplane belongs to the insurance company. Your job is to use the insurance company's airplane to keep everyone as safe as possible. The deductable payment will be the same with or without new props and engines.
What I thought it was at SGF the plane is still there I think.
this landing actually happened in Springfield, Mo!
The blow down bottle won't work if you have a broken hyd.line it just gets blowen overboard as was the case.
Talk about pucker factor 10. But I'd check the yellow sheets on the blow down bottle. Very nice handicapped landing.
Smooth landing at 107mph touchdown but bad fire as fuel drains leaked fuel for full 1/3 mile skid on dry brown grass field. All 6 made it out but burned from outside fire. Thus the new saying goes "any landing you can walk or in this case run away from is still a good landing" Good job with the C404 boys!