A Flybe Dash-8 suffered a gear collapse Thursday at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport as a major storm battered western Europe. There were no injuries but the airplane is badly damaged. The so-called weather bomb has hit the U.K. and the continent with winds of up to 100 mph and they were reportedly blowing at 30-40 MPH when the Flybe flight made its landing attempt. Planespotters flock to the observation areas around European airports when the wind blows so there is, of course, video of the mishap, which VASAviation put together in a nice package with audio from LiveATC.net.
The aircraft’s approach appears normal but during the flare the right wing dips and appears to result in a prop strike, according to cellphone video shot from inside the plane. After the plane grinds to a halt a pilot declares a Mayday and evacuates the aircraft after smoke gets into the cockpit. Fire trucks were at the aircraft in a minute or so and there was no fire.
