At Okeechobee Airport

[SkipSS]

Friend sent me this today from Okeechobee. 

[Mooneymite]

Ouch!

Always sorry to see misery.

Maybe it just needs new gear biscuits?

[Bartman]

Hard to tell if there is any prop damage.  Gear up with prop stopped and they hauled it to that spot ?

[DonMuncy]

Hard to explain. Surely nobody would drag the plane on its belly. Unless for some reason, the gear could not be extended even when lifted.

[carusoam]

Going on what you can see in the pic...

 

Looks like they are getting ready to fuel her up. 

 

Guess will have to actually wait for some details to go with that.

 

MSer, or no?

Best regards,

-a-

[Sabremech]

Kathryn's report say a gear up landing April 2, 2018 at Okeechobee airport. 

[Tony Starke]

1 hour ago, carusoam said:

 

 

MSer, or no?

Best regards,

-a-

Registered to a company in Ocala, Fl.

 

[Yetti]

It's kin to to the legless cow

[rbridges]

1 hour ago, Sabremech said:

Kathryn's report say a gear up landing April 2, 2018 at Okeechobee airport. 

Looks like a newer model. Hopefully will get repaired. 

[Steve W]

Not that hard to explain. Dragged onto a flat bed tow truck, moved to spot, slid back onto the ground. It's easy to get a tow truck to get a plane off the runway, not so quick or easy to find something that can actually lift an aircraft so you can get the gear down.

And even if they did lift it to move it, there's still a good chance there was no one familiar enough with Mooneys around to put the gear down, or the lift straps were in the way, or one of 37 other possibilities.

Edited April 23, 2018 by Steve W

[Hector]

Hard to explain. Surely nobody would drag the plane on its belly. Unless for some reason, the gear could not be extended even when lifted.

Landing gear mechanism/tubes were bent. Not my plane but I have some knowledge of the accident. Sorry but that’s all I can say. Have to respect the privacy of the owner.


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[DonMuncy]

Just now, Hector said:

 

Landing gear mechanism/tubes were bent. Not my plane but I have some knowledge of the accident. Sorry but that’s all I can say. Have to respect the privacy of the owner.


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Aah, that makes sense. Thanks

[1964-M20E]

This Mooney has been fitted with the new BTTF hover board technology STC.  It rests on its belly skids for easy entry and exit then it will hover about 5' above the ground for engine start and take off.  There are a couple of extra hover output flux inductors that act as brakes and lateral control while hovering and before taxing.  Maximum hover height is 10' so true VTO is not possible but it does make landing in a cow pasture very smooth and cross wind landings are mostly eliminated.  You pick up about 100lbs of useful load since the flux inductors are much lighter than our current landing gear and you pickup about 10kts because the lower skins are now smooth with no gear doors.  Oh and as a bonus you get more leg room in the front since the nose wheel well is eliminated.

Oh yes I do have the STC for that mod but if you have to ask it's probably too much for most of us CBs here.

Cirrus drives need to learn to fly without the training wheels first before working on the STC for Cirrus.

 

[Bartman]

Yeah, but I doubt you would gain 10 knots

[co2bruce]

I was at KOBE when it happened. Gear was up, looked like he tried to put it down last second. Engine was running fine. I think they may have been doing touch and gos. That is not the pilot in the picture. I did not see it happen, this is just what i heard while I was there. YMMV

[FloridaMan]

If you have time to reach the gear handle, and the gear has time to move you have time to firewall the throttle. The shortcoming there would be if the prop already struck the runway. 

[kmyfm20s]

When they attempt to put the gear down at the last moment is the most destructive gear up damage.

[Simon]

This aircraft was for sale at Specialized Helicopters in Watsonville, CA last year.  I called them about it.

Looks like it caught the hovering bug.

[Mark89114]

20 hours ago, Hector said:

 

Landing gear mechanism/tubes were bent. Not my plane but I have some knowledge of the accident. Sorry but that’s all I can say. Have to respect the privacy of the owner.


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Care to elaborate on this?  How do the tubes get bent?  I know the nose steering rods can be bent, but this is first I have heard of actuator tubes being bent?  Just educating myself.  Thanks.