Diana Layton submitted this photo and note: “The aftermath of an aircraft when the landing gear failed to come down in time. This plane was housed at Grant County Airport in Petersburg, West Virginia, until all the paperwork was complete.”
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What exactly does that mean: “The landing gear failed to come down in time.” ?
Sounds like someone only remembered to lower the gear at the last second and was too late. I wonder why this is placed under Photo Of The Day and not under NTSB reports.
Looks like a Beech 99. I’ve worked on those in the past for a regional airline. The early ones had mechanical gear which included a doubled “bicycle” chain going forward from the motor under the floor to the nose gear. Constant maintenance pain as the chains would stretch and require adjustment. The whole system was a headache. I wonder if this might be one of them, or have all of those been fazed out by now? Then we got our first 99 with hydraulic gear. When we jacked it up and swung the gear, we thought we’d died and gone to heaven.
On second look, it looks too short to be a 99. King Air?