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Offline EHM-1703 Philip

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B1900 Belly landing in NZ
« on: June 18, 2007, 05:14:32 pm »
A ANZ Beech 1900 made a belly landing in Wellington (Blenheim) today... It all worked out well and the pilot made a great landing by all accounts... Bet he will be serving a 3 day ProPilot suspension though! :)

http://tvnz.co.nz/cda/tvnz/video_popup_windows_skin/1188658?bandwidth=128k

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Offline EHM-1883 Matt

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B1900 Belly landing in NZ
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2007, 06:02:34 pm »
no engineers in Wellington??? If that happened here, Health and Safety officials would go berzerk!
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EHM-1671 Ben

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B1900 Belly landing in NZ
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2007, 05:26:41 am »
Sadly, Air New Zealand has moved much of its engineering and aircraft maintenance facilities overseas because of the better technology available and because it's more cost effective. Maintenance for domestic aircraft are based mainly in Auckland or Christchurch, I think.

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no engineers in Wellington??? If that happened here, Health and Safety officials would go berzerk!


While Wellington is the capital, it is definitely not Air New Zealand's main hub (that's Auckland) so I'm not surprized there aren't any engineers. Air New Zealand has enjoyed an excellent safety record... a great airline despite this belly landing ;)
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EHM-1821 Javier

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B1900 Belly landing in NZ
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2007, 07:05:08 am »
wow, great skill! i wonder what the belly looks like now ;D
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EHM-6861 Hunter

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B1900 Belly landing in NZ
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2007, 03:30:41 am »
Geez, I wish I could land like that in a FS Emergency! lol.
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