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B1900 Belly landing in NZ

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EHM-1703 Philip:
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

Cheers,

EHM-1883 Matt:
no engineers in Wellington??? If that happened here, Health and Safety officials would go berzerk!

EHM-1671 Ben:
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.


--- Quote ---Originally posted by EHM-1883 Matt
no engineers in Wellington??? If that happened here, Health and Safety officials would go berzerk!
--- End quote ---


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 ;)

EHM-1821 Javier:
wow, great skill! i wonder what the belly looks like now ;D

EHM-6861 Hunter:
Geez, I wish I could land like that in a FS Emergency! lol.

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