Another DC-3 incident

[ASpilot2be]

Engine trouble on cargo plane leads to emergency landing at Merrill Field Airport in Anchorage

Nobody was hurt when the TransNorthern Aviation Douglas DC-3 made a wheels-up landing, an NTSB official said.

www.adn.com

Surprised they went to the smaller airport.

 

[alaskadrifter]

One news source said they clipped some trees just before landing. I don’t think they could have made it back to PANC.

edit: this was sent to me a couple times, I don’t know who took it. Also language.

 

[ASpilot2be]

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One news source said they clipped some trees just before landing. I don’t think they could have made it back to PANC.

edit: this was sent to me a couple times, I don’t know who took it. Also language.

That makes sense. I figured since they were going to Kodiak that they would be going the other direction.

 

[DropTank]

SUPER DC-3

It's a strong plane.
My guess is that it'll be flying again early Jan

#2 looks like it wasn't fully feathered.

 

[Beefy McGee]

Why did they land wheels up?

 

[ASpilot2be]

Why did they land wheels up?

Wondering if they had dropped the gear, maybe they wouldn't have made the runway.

 

[fholbert]

SUPER DC-3

It's a strong plane.
My guess is that it'll be flying again early Jan

#2 looks like it wasn't fully feathered.

Looks like it was back in the air same day.

Can I log that time?

 

[Minuteman]

I was surprised to learn they were still making DC-3s until 1952, but that's not correct. The airframe was built in 1943 (42-24345) and was rebuilt in 1952 as an R4D-8/C-117D Super DC-3 (39080)

 

[MikeD]

I was surprised to learn they were still making DC-3s until 1952, but that's not correct. The airframe was built in 1943 (42-24345) and was rebuilt in 1952 as an R4D-8/C-117D Super DC-3 (39080)

I can still vaguely remember seeing the air station C-117D assigned to MCAS Yuma in the very late 1970s during an airshow there when it was still in USMC service and on display.

 

[A300Capt]

Wondering if they had dropped the gear, maybe they wouldn't have made the runway.

Yep….I heard either they couldn’t fully feather the prop or it was going in and out of feather and they were barely maintaining altitude while milking it back to the airport. Kudos to the crew! Well done!

 

[T/O w/FSII]

Found on Facebook. A guy said he watched it trim his trees.

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[ShortField]

Engine trouble on cargo plane leads to emergency landing at Merrill Field Airport in Anchorage

Nobody was hurt when the TransNorthern Aviation Douglas DC-3 made a wheels-up landing, an NTSB official said.

www.adn.com

Surprised they went to the smaller airport.

They must have launched on 33 I’d guess.

 

[🦈💜]

Why did they land wheels up?

Honestly, I'm not sure why we even bother asking a question like that when a crew has a successful outcome from a serious emergency.

On first take, that appears to have been some solid airmanship to me.

-Fox

 

[Roger Roger]

Honestly, I'm not sure why we even bother asking a question like that when a crew has a successful outcome from a serious emergency.

On first take, that appears to have been some solid airmanship to me.

-Fox

If true that the propeller didn’t want to feather, I’d say they got dealt a bad hand, bluffed the reaper, and walked away with all the chips.

 

[MikeD]

Honestly, I'm not sure why we even bother asking a question like that when a crew has a successful outcome from a serious emergency.

On first take, that appears to have been some solid airmanship to me.

-Fox

Any questions are good to ask for informational purposes when it comes to understanding what the crew was specifically facing at a given moment and what drove certain actions they took or didn’t take. Could be some good lessons for another pilot or crew in a similar situation someday.

 

[alaskadrifter]

This TikTok video shows just how close they came to not making the runway. Definition of gnat’s ass.

TikTok - Make Your Day

 

[T/O w/FSII]

This TikTok video shows just how close they came to not making the runway. Definition of gnat’s ass.

TikTok - Make Your Day

That left engine was full power until the prop was on the ground. Wow.

Yea, I’d left the gear up too.

 

[ahw01]

Any questions are good to ask for informational purposes when it comes to understanding what the crew was specifically facing at a given moment and what drove certain actions they took or didn’t take. Could be some good lessons for another pilot or crew in a similar situation someday.

Something about the hyd pump working on one engine maybe, or reducing the unwanted drag. Either way a good outcome

 

[fholbert]

They must have launched on 33 I’d guess.

 

[DropTank]

Are the Super DC-3 props electric?