Trigrana Air (Cargo) gears break off during landing!

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/trigana-air-plane-skids-upon-landing-in-papua/3122352.html

Pretty crazy!

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I’m guessing bad maintenance?

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I saw this on the news. All I saw on the TV screen was a random gear sitting in the middle of a runway.
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Man, sounds like pilot error! Or they forgot to replace the 30 year old gear after Delta had used it for years…

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The approach is all visual and require flying over a small mountain. The mountains often create low lying clouds that obscure the airport. The aircraft merely landed too harder as a result of low visibility. The airport is in desperate need of an ILS.

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