LOT B767 Belly lands

[Anthony T]

Nice bit of video as well.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/01/plane-lands-on-belly-poland?newsfeed=true

[Kent Broadhead]

Clearly all possible preparations made, including foam covered runway, but still a combination of good pilot skills and luck. Fantastic result with no reported injuires!

[Grahame Hutchison]

Great landing, just a tad expensive !

[Jaryd stock]

Passengers were saying the landing was so smooth they thought the gear was down, fantastic job by pilots.

[Jayden Laing]

Photos of it here:

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=7226650

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=7226627

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=7226626

[Sarah C]

Amazing effort from the crew - close to a perfect landing. Great footage by the way, spotters can really assist in these situations just showing how good the landing was

[Andrew P]

per The Aviation Herald "about 30 minutes after departure from Newark the crew reported the failure of the center hydraulic system"

wonder if it had an Australian registered plane, would he have had to return to Newark, or proceeded on his trip across the ocean??

[Justin L]

Australian registered plane? Or do you mean American registered plane?

[Andrew P]

Trying to say Qantas, without using the word Qantas?

Too much Qantas lately, like turkey after Christmas

[Rowan McKeever]

Oh come on, a QF crew would have done the same as the LO crew and, for that matter, any crew from any other airline... ensure the safest and most efficient 'completion' of the flight. Safest and most efficient in that order, too.

[David Knudsen]

I don't think Andrew's trying to say Qantas would have done a better or worse job, but I too am curious as to whether or not it's a standard procedure to complete a flight with a hydraulics issue or put down at the closest port.

[Rowan McKeever]

G'day Dave & Andrew

Apologies for coming across that way. My point is really just that on all the information I've seen from the LO incident it appears the crew assessed the risk as being imminent only during the landing phase and not during the cruise. In that case it makes no difference where the aircraft lands & so I imagine any airline would prefer the 'most efficient' option which would be to bring the aircraft & crew & passengers home. Sorry again for sounding accusatory Andrew.

Cheers
Rowan

[Daniel M]

Holy moly those photos are awesome, particularly the first one !

[Daniel M]

Also, is there no gravity extension system for the gear on the 767 ?

[Rowan McKeever]

My favourite's the 3rd one... just has a 'meant-to-be' look about it!!

[Grahame Hutchison]

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=7226626

This image shows it as an almost perfect three point landing.

Things may have been different in a strong crosswind.

[Darren Butterworth]

Brilliant photos

[James S.]

Bloody brilliant job from those LOT pilots, good on them, that's what their training was for, although it's pretty amazing that everything failed for them not to even be able to get that gear down through gravity or backup systems!

[albert vasquez]

Hi
For more photos and videos check the link below out.
For those of you who speak polish heaps to read, for the others enjoy the pics vids.

http://www.tvn24.pl/13547,2476295,0,0,1,0,awaryjne-ladowanie-na-okeciu,galeria.html

Anyone able to answer what the problem could've been. From what they are saying on tvn24.pl it appears all of the landing gear deployment systems had failed for electrical, hydraulic and gravity assisted.

Albert

[Fred C]

Cannot help with the reason why the gear didn't extend. I am sure that will be revealed with time. I am sure Boeing would like to know why one of their aeroplanes has landed on its belly.

As for landing gear operation on a 767.............

Normal operation is you operate a lever in the flight deck which via cables operates a valve in the main gear wheel well. This then ports hydraulic fluid to doors and gear actuators in a specific sequence to successfully extend and lock the gear down.

It is believed that this aircraft had trouble with the centre hydraulic system on departure. This is the system that operates the landing gear.

Alternate operation of the gear is via an electric motor and a cable system to each of the gears. This unlocks the gear doors and allows the gear to freefall into the down and locked position.

[Jason Le]

I guess it was just a matter of time... here is the link:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6ee_1320430499

Curious that the crew don't seem to be shouting any brace commands.

Can any cabin crew confirm that they should have? (or maybe thats not the procedure at LOT)

[Philip Argy]

Here's a story and video to add to the record:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=sbV58eY0MyM (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=sbV58eY0MyM)

The in-cabin video suggests that the passengers were indeed in brace positions and that cabin crew did everything correctly.