Didn’t stand a chance - investigation is still ongoing, but what happened here is a mystery.
“The first thing I noticed was that the plane had no landing gear on, its wheels weren’t down,” he said.
"It was coming in way too fast and then the bottom of it did a sort of belly flop on the runway. It caught fire and then it bounced back up into the air and when it hit the ground again it burst into flames.
“It was like a massive fireball and there was black smoke everywhere. We could feel the heat from where we were standing. There were bits of plane all over the runway.”
Not sure if this belongs here, but today whilst out walking the dog, I saw my first ever OV-10 Bronco flying. Was deep green with large orange flashes on the boom uprights.
Never seen one in the air before. Probably from one of the many collections in the area - or maybe something to do with the new airshow replacing Waddington’s annual event. I don’t know when that is, but at £39 entry I won’t be going
Hmm…shame it will be below minimums with that 1/4 mile call…I mean, the 20 knot crosswind limitation on the King Air is only a recommendation, not a limitation…
Looks like the fan disk sheared off its bolts and took off, taking the whole fan with it, with a large part of the forward fan case as well, abradable liners, acoustical liners and the kevlar shield surrounding the fan disk.
Rather problematic really, never seen this before. Although A380 engines have a habit of showing us the most interesting ways of self destruction these days(Both Engine Alliance and RR).
