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Title: B1900 Belly landing in NZ
Post by: EHM-1703 Philip 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

Cheers,

Title: B1900 Belly landing in NZ
Post by: EHM-1883 Matt on June 18, 2007, 06:02:34 pm

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

Title: B1900 Belly landing in NZ
Post by: EHM-1671 Ben 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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Originally posted by EHM-1883 Matt
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 ;)

Title: B1900 Belly landing in NZ
Post by: EHM-1821 Javier on June 19, 2007, 07:05:08 am

wow, great skill! i wonder what the belly looks like now ;D

Title: B1900 Belly landing in NZ
Post by: EHM-6861 Hunter on August 28, 2007, 03:30:41 am

Geez, I wish I could land like that in a FS Emergency! lol.