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Airplane crash altiport de Megève france altiport france landing without landing gear (HD)

Sven Herzog Aviation · 840.1K views · 2011-11-01 · 4:12

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Overview

Cockpit footage of an approach to the Megeve altiport in France that ends in a gear-up landing, with the warning horn audible throughout. Everyone aboard survived and the crew had thousands of flight hours.

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Cited as a vivid example that experienced pilots can ignore loud alarms, in threads on alarm design and gear-up landings.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2016–2024

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Aviation & aerospace engineeringUX & UI design
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gear-up landingwarning hornpilot erroralarm designaviation accident

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buildsjets · 2024-12 · Reference

Youtube is full of examples pilots landing gear up, with the gear-up warning system clearly blaring in the background. [VIDEO] This does not only happen to little propeller airplanes. Heres an Airbus A320 where the pilot managed to land gear up despite the presence of all kinds of safeguards and automation. [LINK] Humans are funny animals.

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FabHK · 2019-12 · Reference

Here, two experienced pilots land gear up (in a small single engine machine) even though it beeps loudly... [VIDEO]

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FabHK · 2019-12 · Reference

The level of obnoxiousness is hard to get right. Here, two pilots land a small plane gear up, even though a loud warning horn is sounding throughout. [VIDEO]

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