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Just in from thewest.com.au

Student, teacher escape crash landing

8th October 2007, 13:15 WST



A Cessna 172 Cardinal crash-landed at Jandakot Airport just before lunchtime after the plane’s landing gear apparently failed.

A student and instructor aboard the Air Australia International flying school plane, which landed on its belly, were not injured.

Jandakot Airport operations manager Darryl Evans said the airport activated its emergency procedures. A Royal Flying Doctor Service plane that had been about to take off stopped to assist the two people until ambulance officers arrived. Mr Evans said they were checked at the scene but did not need further treatment.

He said crash-landings happened a few times a year at Jandakot but would not provide detailed statistics.

Air Australia International refused to comment on the incident.

Love that term 'crash landing'.

I was told once that there's no such thing as a crash landing. You either land, or you crash - but you can't do both!

Was this one..



And for a bit of nerdy trivia...the Cardinal is not a Cessna 172 , It is a Cessna 177RG.

Steve wrote:Love that term 'crash landing'.

I was told once that there's no such thing as a crash landing. You either land, or you crash - but you can't do both!

Like the term "near miss" - you either missed.... or you didn't!

lol...Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing .... I have found over the years that aviation and journalists are like oil and water...they just dont mix.

vki said plane had gone belly up and said 4 pax on board

A good landing is a landing you can walk away from. A great landing is a landing that keeps the plane intact

Good old pilots saying

Here's another one

A good pilot is when the number of takeoff's subtracted from the number of landings equals zero

"belly up" is another term that bugs me cos for mine that means the bugger is upside down...which this certainly wasnt.

as for old pilots sayings... my faves are:

"The most useless things to a pilot are the altitude above and the runway behind"

"The only time you have too much fuel is when you are on fire"

"Never let an aircraft take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier"

I could go on but i wont

Another one if I may and

A Takeoff - is always optional; However, landing is Not Negotiable - It is always Compolsory.