Comments on: Amazing photo: Emergency landing in New Zealand

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:45:15 +0000

Betty as a former pilot, I can tell you they are just as keen to get home after a long day as you are. All pilots from their earliest training are trained for emergencies and devote a lot of conscious thought to safety and prevention.

You are more likely to die in a car crash than a plane crash, honestly. When our time comes then it is sad but unavoidable.

Don’t let fear corrode your enjoyment of what is really a neat experience. How many hours have you actually spent worrying about flying and how much danger have you ever really been in flying ?

I bet the numbers don’t tally.

By: Travel Betty

Travel Betty — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:33:43 +0000

Even with the impressive landing, this does little to help ease my fears of flying! I can’t imagine being a passenger on a flight like this. Great job, Pilots!

By: Braden

Braden — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:50:13 +0000

Just to help shed some light, Live in Blenheim and witnessed what happened. The engines were off at the last minute, but the pitch wasn’t set to 0% hence the reason they were spinning on impact, and the 1900 landed on the Left grass runway then it slid onto the tarmac runway. The plane will be out of action for about 3 months and the cause was because of a cracked hydraulic actuator in the extension/retraction system for the landing gear.

By: Darius

Darius — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:46:46 +0000

I would think that when landing with no gear engines should be turned off to minimize demege to both engines. It looks as if pilot kept them running ?

By: Mark Ashley

Mark Ashley — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:41:22 +0000

It looks strangely less dramatic in the video, but that smooth, straight landing is all the more impressive when you know the damage that’s being done (and that’s visible in the close-up).

Thanks for sharing, Errol!

By: Errol

Errol — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:28:10 +0000

Lets try that again:
Video (poor quality)

Post-landing passenger interviews

By: Errol

Errol — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:23:30 +0000