Here's another gear-up from today's paper:BrassMonkey wrote:
This is what happens when you do not keep a sterile cockpit during critical phases of flight. This is base to short final, but the gear should have been down well before this point in the pattern. It's why we use a checklist even though we have gone thru a procedure thousands of times. Nobody is perfect...
Plane crashes at local airport; no injuries reported
Published: 10/08/2007
The Texarkana, Ark., Fire Department responded to a small airplane crash Sunday afternoon on Runway 4 at Texarkana Regional Airport.
The pilot, alone in the Cesna 310, was practicing touch and go exercises when he allegedly forgot to put the landing gear down, TAFD Lt. Jerry Anderson said.
He was not injured in the accident. The plane experienced significant damage to its propellors and engines, Anderson said.