Henry has sent in the following link to the incident involving the Piper PA-28 Arrow ZK-RTE.
There is not much dialogue until about .55 seconds into the clip !
Published on Aug 30, 2015
5
miles off the coast there was a huge bang and then the engine began
running very rough. Declared mayday with Christchurch Control then
immediately changed to Christchurch Tower and declared again. We started
limping to the coast. Could only maintain 110 mph (best glide in the
PA-28R-200 is 105 mph). Had to limp up the Waimakariri river, down to
400' into special VFR poor weather at Christchurch. Got very low and 1/4
mile from the runway as we started over the ALS lights, the engine
really began banging and developing even less power, down to 200' and not
looking good. Tower warned up we did not have landing gear extended,
but we knew that. Watch the yellow gear in transit light high on the
instrument, as, we had to extend the gear literally just before landing.
The yellow light goes out as the gear is locked down. If we'd put the
gear out an earlier, we wouldn't have made the runway. Neither Craig nor
I stopped the engine, it did that all by itself! The tower controller
was fantastic, many thanks to Airways staff at Christchurch and the fire
turn out that thank god we didn't actually need. I was right hand seat
and did 75% or the radio, gear and flaps and assisted Craig who was
flying pilot in command. Well bloody done Craig!
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RTE was parked outside on the western grass tie downs yesterday afternoon, below.
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