lol. He Said. "It appears to me that their might be a wheel missing from the gear as well" (refering to the step) HAHA.
He landed well before the displaced threshold, maybe this was on purpose to maximize the available runway. The plane came to rest just after the piano keys.
Also, he shut down both engines before touchdown and tried to bump the starters to level the prop blades and save the blades and engines, but they both struck the runway upon touchdown anyway.
If this ever happens to me (in a light piston twin) I probably wouldn't worry about trying to level the prop blades on short final unless there's another pilot on board to divide the workload. I'd cut off the fuel and pull the mixtures once landing was assured, but in my opinion I think it's inappropriate to try to mess with the props at such a critical phase of the flight. Engines and blades be damned, that's why airplanes are insured.
Mike
Could that have been caused just by the wind? I recall doing a full feather shut down (restart), and by just pitching down we could restart the engines.
If this ever happens to me (in a light piston twin) I probably wouldn't worry about trying to level the prop blades on short final unless there's another pilot on board to divide the workload. I'd cut off the fuel and pull the mixtures once landing was assured, but in my opinion I think it's inappropriate to try to mess with the props at such a critical phase of the flight. Engines and blades be damned, that's why airplanes are insured.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/11/25/obrien.roswell.revisited.cnnOk, I give up, I cant find the video on foxnews or CNN. Where is it?