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Plane Lands Hard in Colorado Carrying 12 No One Hurt
A 10-passenger flight from Denver International Airport to Telluride lost use of its landing gear, tilted to the left and damaged a wing and propeller at Telluride Regional Airport on Sunday afternoon. Great Lakes Aviation spokeswoman Monica Taylor-Lee said none of the passengers or crew members aboard Flight 7150 was injured. She said the crew was able to deploy the gear manually in flight, but it did not hold as the plane was decelerating on the landing. (www.denverpost.com) עוד...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Telluride... Colorado's version of Lukla...
i posted this story 5 hours before you did
http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/unset/user/36522/Great_Lakes_Airlines_Landing_Gear_Fails_KTEX
Good Catch.....
"Great Lakes Airlines Landing Gear Fails". I guess your headline and info was weak or everybody was out having a good time. I later saw that but sometimes if your headline does not spark interest people will not respond. I didn't mean to steal your thunder but a lot of people know the Telluride airport and if you ever seen it you would know why that is the lead in and not "Great Lakes"
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Why alternate? There's nothing wrong with the airport, it's the plane..
In spite of all of these other comments, right or wrong, this one hits the bottom line; An alternate airport generally applies for a diversion when you can't land at the destination airport, for whatever reason
Diverts are different from alternates. "Diverts" can be anywhere any time and are not filed nor is fuel added to get to them. An "alternate" is only required to be filed if the wx at destination precludes it (remember the 1/2/3 rule). If the wx is above needing an alternate, the fuel required is destination +45 mins on an IFR flight plan and no alternate needs to be filed. The alternate is generally for legality sake and fuel planning. You also don't have to land at your alternate if you can't get to the destination. You can land anywhere you want if its above mins and, in the case of an airline, your dispatch concurs.
Spatr......you are partially correct. An alternate is required, as you say, for weather conditions reported or forecast (or combination thereof) according to """the 1/2/3 rule"". However, most air carrier flight operating procedures require listing an alternate when flying to an airport with one runway no matter how good the weather will be at arrival. Examples would be clear weather but on arrival the cross wind component exceeds specs, or the airport becomes closed on arrival in the terminal area. There are many other prudent examples why alternate fuel planning plus reserves is good practice regardless of FAR weather requirements.
Single runway alternate does not apply at lakes. Only applies when there is a forecast crosswind that exceeds the limits, or if you don't have two nav recievers. (i.e. an airport served only by an NDB and you only have one ADF) fwiw
I wasn't going to go into all of the reasons for filing an alternate but yes that is one of them however, I do not know if this particular flight even had an alternate filed.