Comment by sandworm101
16 hours ago
>> The pilot then maintains control of the vehicle
This seems to have been a training flight. Im sure the black box (if there was one) heard an excited "i have control" from the senior pilot once the grinding noise started.
That paragraph had me snort.
Once you’re grinding along the runway, is there anything the pilot can do?
‘Video captured by KHOU 11 television showed the aircraft touching down on the runway without its landing gear extended. The pilot then maintains control of the vehicle as it slides down the runway, slowing the aircraft through friction.’
From that footage we have absolutely no idea which pilot was flying, and certainly not what they were saying to each other.
We know they called "three green" to tower. It would be impossible to see three green with the gear up. Doing so would require a hundred one-in-a-billion things to happen all at once. So both pilots screwed up. In such a situation it is expected that the instructor/check pilot take over immediately.
Unannounced (ie surprise! Rather than a declared emergency) gear-up landings happen regularly and it always a pilot error.
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