I heard early on in my flying career, "There are those who have and those that will," when it comes to gear up landings. Hogwash.
— James Albright
Updated:
2013-07-14
Here is a professional crew that totalled a multimillion dollar aircraft because they couldn't be bothered with the checklist. . . .
Note: I don't have any primary source material on this accident.
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Accident report
- Date: 13 JUN 1991
- Time: 18:41
- Type: Boeing 727-281
- Operator: Korean Air
- Registration: HL7350
- Crew: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7
- Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 120
- Total: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 127
- Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
- Location: Taegu Airport (TAE) (South Korea)
- Phase: Landing (LDG)
- Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger
- Departure airport: Jeju (Cheju) International Airport (CJU/RKPC), South Korea
- Destination airport: Daegu (Taegu) International Airport (TAE/RKTN), South Korea
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Narrative
Gear-up landing. The crew failed to read out the landing procedure checklist, didn't select the gear down. The circuit breaker was pulled when the warning system horn sounded.
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Cause
The narrative says it all.