GEAR COLLAPSE + PROP STRIKE | Bad Landing at Ann Arbor Muni. 

Thanks to this follower for his detailed report. Glad the occupants of N302FG are OK!

FUCK DUDE is not exactly the standard phraseology for declaring an emergency, but it seems to work just as well...

What happened Will?! IDK you f$&ked up!! 🤣🤣🤣

4:35 I would suggest either diverting or... finding an airfield somewhere else. Oh, ok. Good to have options. 😂

I'm pretty sure "Fuck dude!" is street slang for, "The ground is hard".

That went from a $100 hamburger to a $100,000 hamburger quickly…

They should change their callsign from FG to FD 😂

As a Piper owner an "improperly timed flare" is an under statement to collapse a nose gear... this was really rough whatever happened

Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo Delta Uniform Delta Echo !!

Hello this is Jim from Ryanair recruiting, can someone please put me in contact with the pilot? Thx.

His reaction is heartbreaking to me. Having been an instructor, we all know things can go sideways quickly. Seen better pilots than me get bit. But all hope isn't lost, many of them are at better airlines than me now too haha. Hang in there, learn, dont quit, stay positive.

Lmaooo bad day at work for that cfi

Good post victor. Good to hear all aircraft doing what they can to help tower manage the workload. Good learning for all pilots. I like the videos you post that don’t hyperfocus on a pilot or controllers mistake. We all make them. Obviously the mistake is required to give us these learning moments, but some videos are posted for the sheer voyeurism they’re sure to attract. Again, good post.

“Tower 2FG: Warrior 2FG Tower: “FCK DUDE”… 😂 🤣

I used to rent a seriously ghetto C172M many years ago, I called it the "flying zombie", it flew crooked like a banana, all the paint chipping off. Next week I turn on the TV and a news chopper is hovering over a 172 that a poor student popped the nose gear on landing, and pogo'd off the runway. Upon closer look, it was the same one I had rented a week earlier. I found out they eventually patched it up, slapped on some new paint and it was like brand new, lol.

My guess is he didn’t mean to key the mic or maybe had a hot mic due to how hard the landing was. Still funny tho lol

N53703 sounded like a cool guy!

It's hard to describe, but I love the interconnected thinking that happens when a number of actors have to make changes that fit with all the other changes. It's like a dance. No honking, just pure communication, cooperation and execution.

What a shame!! Flew the 302FG in 2013 with Solo, great school. Said the plane ended this way.

I’ve never heard an FBO/station other than tower or actual ATC on frequency other than just the ramp frequency, sounded so crisp too

Yup I can just catch a cab back 😂

What a surprise to see 3540T on the channel. I did a lot of my training and PPL check ride in it years ago. Glad it wasn't the one damaged here, it was my favorite 172 of the small fleet.

Got two ratings in that plane and used fly at Solo. Not surprised this they’re a pretty awful flight school.

I'm glad they're okay.

Bill & Ted's excellent adventures

I've found the Warrior to be a very gentle bird to fly. Floats a lot in the flair if you are a little fast. However, you can balloon the landing easy if you're fast and pull too hard in the flair. Ending up landing on the nose wheel with a decidedly firm thunk, if you push too hard to counter the ballooning flair. The nose gear is tough, but can be broken if you hit it hard, or repeatedly though. Glad that no one was injured. I hope the bird is reparable, as they are a nice gentle one to fly, with no surprises or bad habits.

Brings back the memory of being in a gears-up landing at the Hailey, ID airport many years ago. Both the pilot and me were fine, although a bit shaken.

Just glad all ok. When I first pulled that, I for some reason imagined Spicoli from Ridgemont High at the controls :)

This has delayed my flight training a little bit since the flight school only has 1 other IFR equipped aircraft for flight training. Its going to take them a couple months to repair the aircraft and get it flying again.

Thank you for the hot mic. You could feel the disappointment.

There was just an emergency landing at Toronto Pearson, air Canada Rouge. Fire trucks surrounded plane closed runway for a bit happened just before 4pm Saturday May 18. Wake Turbulence aviation caught the landing on his live stream

Glad you guys are ok. Never like hearing my local field on this page.

Plane landed off airport near wings field today KLOM north of Philly

Ann Arbor can get pretty hectic with all of the advertising banners being towed around. Willow Run airport is even on the screen over to the right.

As another comment stated it appears that they flared too early. This could be caused by an illusion of a wider runway. I have had similar occurrences when I moved from a smaller airport about 75 feet in width to a bigger airport with 150 feet in width. And it causes the illusion that you are closer to the runway then you actually are which can lead you flaring way too early. Edit: I have been informed that the runway was much thinner than I assumed. When I was saying that there was an illusion I was thinking of in my experience going from a 75-ft wide runway to a 100-ft wide runway. Apparently the runway that they crashed on was 75 ft. We will have to wait for an NTSB report if that ever happens to determine anything.

According to the witness statement, they flared 70-80 feet above the runway?! Do they realize how high 70-80 feet is? If they flared that high it would have pancaked the plane and almost certainly there would have been life threatening injuries. That’s way above the tops of really large fully matured trees.

Dang, finally hearing familiar voices from my home field.

Will is a good friend.

Ryanair would like to hire this dude

Just think one of those "dudes" is a CFI. 😂😂

that N757MPaaaPAaahh is it the same guy from the other video? PaahPaahhh~~~~

Don't worry dude, I'm sure it will buff out.

Shouldn’t the CFI (the PIC) be stepping in to assist with the go around if the flare was too early and it’s looking to go south? Maybe help jam that throttle to its stops? Doesn’t seem like letting nature take its course is the best option. 😉

Sounded like it hurt a bit

I’ve flown this plane, really nice avionics. I also know the instructor. Sad to see. Glad they made it out ok

1:11 Lyrics: Aaaargh Fuck dude Holy shit! Uuuh, uuuh my good Oh my god, tower 2FG Oh my god, oh my god! Oh my goood Will, what happened??? I dont know, dude!!! Tower 2FG, fuck duuude..

I sent you the same audio weeks ago

Ouch

"either diverting or finding a field somewhere else" 🤔

Rough day but that’s what insurance is for. Reminder for everyone when there’s an emergency going on. Don’t sit up in the pattern and start delegating instructions to everyone else *cough* 40T *cough* let ATC do their job.

I'm surprised someone hasn't blamed Boeing yet.

You ever land so hard your key gets stuck?

I think I’ve seen video from inside the cockpit that shows the instructor saying “Flaps up” on touchdown with the student pilot somehow confusing that for “Gear up” and subsequently commanding gear up which resulted in what you heard here.

The comments on this one are just hillarious.

Are you fcking kidding me, DUDE. This is unacceptable, this is not okay, an instructor let this happen? DUDE, you fcked up! Dude, you don’t want this on your record.

So CFI wasn’t doing his job? Got it

I'd probably be pissed and cussing as well, but why was he keying his mic for it?

I wonder if the FCC will join the fray for the profanity... Glad noone was seriously injured.

Flaring at the right moment is a big deal. Don't know if it can be taught, it's more of an intuition.

"I recommend either diverting or finding a field somewhere else" 🤣

Took way too long for the pilot/instructor to advise tower.. like, could've been dangerous even more

lol I don’t know why 40T thought he had any authority to tell another aircraft what to do in tower controlled airspace

Was this a RG? Perhaps G.U.M.P. has fled him.....

On this episode of “Jeff Spicoli Learns to Fly”

Not very professional. Glad he’s ok though.

Some radio etiquette would be the next chapter ?

Valeu!

I'm no pilot or ATC, but at some point shouldn't the ATC have said, "Unnecessary radio traffic, shut the f**k up"?

Extremely unprofessional mike discipline/communication skills.

Like 👍 #217

What a muppet. Hot mic was the cherry on top, especially without making any effort to communicate with tower deliberately but they called their school instead. The US has to pull their act together with flight training, it's a joke at this point.

Whatever happens do not EVER swear on frequency

Pilot was chinese. Say no more.