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Originally Posted by TheNorm
Apparently, that particular aircraft has a history of landing gear problems
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Yes, I used to fly semi-regularly between Glasgow and Birmingham on a Flybe Dash-8. It always made me slightly uneasy in a way other aircraft didn't.
Perhaps I should revise my earlier comments. If the passengers were all experienced in this type of aircraft, perhaps they thought wheels dropping off mid-takeoff was perfectly normal.
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... in fact I, perhaps unwisely, showed a colleague this picture just before she took a flight on one.
This was the first of two gear failures on this aircraft class that occurred within weeks of each other in 2007.