'We lost a wheel" "Not so good, huh?"

[Rhino]

About as cool, calm and collected as you can be.

 

[Richard MacCrone]

Wow, handled well!!! Looks like minimal damage to aircraft too.

 

[challenger_II]

The video didn't show the dimple marks in the fuselage, under the pilot's seat...

 

[TarDevil]

Outstanding job!

 

[Rhino]

I found it a bit amusing that the pilot sounds German, the controller sounds French, and they landed in Switzerland. Though to be fair, Basel, where they landed, is right where the Germany, France and Switzerland borders come together.

 

[rv7charlie]

Switzerland official languages

 

[Rhino]

Yeah, I know. Been there. Just found it amusing in the video.

 

[Kyle Boatright]

Axel Olsson didn't handle that emergency nearly as well...

 

[Twodeaddogs]

A late friend of mine had the same issue on a cherokee 140. Landed successfully.

 

[Daleandee]

Very cool under pressure! Nicely done!

 

[akwrencher]

They made it look like a non event. Not too shaby.

 

[BBerson]

A late friend of mine had the same issue on a cherokee 140. Landed successfully.

I suspect the chromed strut tube had hydrogen embrittlement and broke off. I took one in to a chrome shop and it cracked while being rechromed.

 

[Rhino]

Forgot to mention, also found it amusing when they were searching the checklist for a procedure on no landing gear.

 

[Daleandee]

Forgot to mention, also found it amusing when they were searching the checklist for a procedure on no landing gear.

Well you gotta do something while you ride around burning all that fuel out of the left tank.

I was impressed as to how they tried to find every conceivable thing they could do to put the outcome in their favor. Good lesson for all of us. Don't panic ... work the problem!

 

[bmcj]

Reference related thread:

SailPlanes, How do they get by with just one wheel?

How do Sailplanes get by with just one wheel? Why can’t hull type Sea planes use the same idea?

www.homebuiltairplanes.com

 

[wsimpso1]

Good job all the way around...

I found the linguistics interesting. Swiss have regions in a Swiss dialect of each of German, French, and Italian, while ATC language is English. Instructor and Unicom at the grass strip both sounded like German accent on English, Instructor used English, German, and French depending upon who he was talking to. Pilot sounded like UK? and Basel ATC seemed to work a mixture of French and English. I also found it interesting that even while speaking in German and French, English words kept showing up, like they are universally used. Fascinating...

And then doing everything they could to bias the emergency in their favor, using as much time as needed, etc. Good Job.

As to the failure, only the teardown and recovery of the lost pieces will show for sure. Long list of possible sources. The still photo shows no scissors and no brake line hanging, and no sign of a stub of the wheel end of the strut. They landed and departed OK, so the gear was down and rolling, if aimed wrong when they were on the ground, and then it seems to have fallen out after they lifted again.

 

[Twodeaddogs]

It's an known,old issue on the PA-28.

 

[djmcfall]

Well done, very well dome. Training check list: EMERGENCY LANDING, “Check”.

 

[Pilot-34]

On the way down I was thinking Grassfield !Grassfield ! Water down a grass field.
After they landed and I realized how the stub slid down the hard runway and realized how the sub would have dug in on grass I thought.

Good choice.