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Author Topic: Bonanza lands at KADS with towbar attached  (Read 20566 times)

Offline JimNtexas

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Bonanza lands at KADS with towbar attached
« on: January 22, 2014, 01:14:18 PM »
Talk about your public embarrassment!  This unfortunate Bonanza pilot can't get his gear down. He's surely very red faced when the tower controller told him about the towbar hanging from his airplane!

He lands safely, so all's well that ends well.

For those who don't know, KADS - Addison is a very busy single runway airport located adjacent to downtown Dallas.  The controller you will hear is named Stephanie, and she well know as one of the coolest controllers in Texas.

Gaps have been reduced in the uploaded mp3 file.



Offline blakepilot

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Re: Bonanza lands at KADS with towbar attached
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2014, 05:19:00 PM »
I saw this on reddit a couple days ago.  Someone made an extremely big oops!  At least it happened on Sunday morning and not a weekday afternoon.  It would have been chaos at ADS.

Offline Marty Becker

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Re: Bonanza lands at KADS with towbar attached
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2014, 08:59:26 PM »
My question, how did he retract the gear after his departure and get a safe gear retraction indication?

Offline Robert Larson

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Re: Bonanza lands at KADS with towbar attached
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2014, 09:47:43 PM »
She sounds like someone who really enjoys her job.