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EHM-1651 Christian:
http://sputnik-dyn.tv2.dk/popup.php?nodeId=8218152&channelId=0

Check out, right landing gear collapse after touchdown due to not beeing completly extended and locked.

EHM-1703 Philip:
Scary moment for some poor pax!!!! I guess the pilot would have been pretty shook up... I can just imagine,he was probably just letting out a sigh of releif after the gear seemed to hold after touch down, thhn WOOOOOPS!!;)

EHM-1953 Daniel:
ohyes, very scary indeed.. they had a little more thourogh talk about this at the news tonight, they said that all the passengers were in the brace position and it went relatively good with the cirumstances in mind :P but it must be quite scary going in for landning with the knowledge that the gear might not hold :| and not to know what happens! :| but it did go quite well so :)

EHM-1883 Matt:
Really though, it also shows how strong these aircraft are at the same time

EHM-1703 Philip:
Apparently there are some quite disturbing points about this crash....

1) Why was the RH engine not shutdown and the prop feathered?
2) Why did the pilot not land with bias to the left and keep the RH gear airbourne until the plane had slowed more?

These are questions being asked on PPrune by real pilots. The pilots were aware of possible problems with the RH gear but did not feather the prop, as a result the prop spinning at high speed, detached and penetrated the cabin, fortunately no one was  hit by it. Also the plane should have been held on its left wheels far longer to prevent the type of slew that occurred. It is being said that the Danish military reported no visible problem with the wheel as it was inspected from a Helicopter and therefore the Pilots took this for granted that all was ok instead of believing their instruments! Of course, these questions are being raised on the "Rumor Network" so therefore we should wait for the crash report before we jump to conclusions.

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