Interesting reason for a hard landing

photofly · Post by **photofly** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 5:03 pm

Pilot's arm came off during the landing flare.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-28778728

Big Pistons Forever · Post by **Big Pistons Forever** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 5:15 pm

Stand by for the hysterical over reaction from the passengers who when interviewed " thought they were going to die !" and "could only think they may never see their baby again !"

digits_ · Post by **digits_** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 5:19 pm

Time to add an extra item to the landing checklist

timel · Post by **timel** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 5:22 pm

That is a good image of a broken European low cost aviation, at it's best.

Just admit you screwed up!

ahramin · Post by **ahramin** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 6:45 pm

Poor guy. Silly incident and I hope he doesn't let it bother him.

CpnCrunch · Post by **CpnCrunch** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 6:47 pm

A friend of mine flies with Flybe, and apparently one of the more experienced captains he flies with has an artificial eye.

BTW, Flybe is one of the better European airlines.

timel · Post by **timel** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 7:00 pm

900£ / month for FOs few years ago, maybe it is better now.

But yes, bad joke, not fun for the guy, it is not a good advertising for the captain, that is the price of transparency.

sanjet · Post by **sanjet** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 7:45 pm

You can call it a Q, still a dash-8 landing

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 6:45 am

You have to hand it to the guy to keep on flying.

Helmet Fire · Post by **Helmet Fire** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:35 am

Wait...this is real?

Mark Rose · Post by **Mark Rose** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 9:06 am

I have an uncle with a prosthetic lower arm (the original lost to a grenade). One of his favourite tricks would be to leave his fake hand gripped when shaking hands and pull the rest of his arm out.

chu me · Post by **chu me** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 9:29 am

After hundreds of hard landing in a Q400 ( the effing thing lands like a shopping cart ) I only wish I had an excuse as good as that!!!!!!!

ea306 · Post by **ea306** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 10:45 pm

Armless landing....no one hurt. No biggie.

Jack Klumpus · Post by **Jack Klumpus** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 1:44 am

I guess not all hands were on deck....

He knew firsthand that it's gonna be a hard landing...

He didn't have the upper hand in that situation...

The passengers were not in safe hands...

Hands down, he walked away from that incident.

I'm glad he didn't get blood on his hand....

I have to hand it to him for managing that landing...

He had his hand full...

On the other hand, this coulda been much worse...

This situation almost got outta hand...

gr8_2_av8 · Post by **gr8_2_av8** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 9:26 pm

"tower, flybe xx with you in the hand off"

Rudder Bug · Post by **Rudder Bug** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 5:13 am

I hope they let him fly the next leg...so the incident didn't cost him an arm and a leg

I_Drive_Planes · Post by **I_Drive_Planes** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 6:36 am

It wasn't they guy at 7:21 was it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5xd97HeY70

DanWEC · Post by **DanWEC** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 10:19 am

C'mon guys, get a grip. No need to get all out of joint about it.
I'm going out on a limb here, being this guy must be quite a responsibly to shoulder. Hope nobody gets all up in arms about it.

He still hand flies better then Air Asiana.

niss · Post by **niss** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:18 am

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report said the captain had disconnected the autopilot and was manually flying the aircraft.

You could even say he was........

Dammit. I had something for this.

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