Here’s the NTSB Preliminary Report on Mesa’s gear up landing the other day. Still no word one what actually failed, and so far I haven’t heard of them being able to recreate the problem.
Dad took a nice photo of me back in November, for those of you not on Facebook… (Are there any of you left?)
Another one of those mornings where crew tracking calls, this time at 4:12am. I’m still doing my 3 day trip, but they figured they’d have me come in early and do a test flight… whee!
I got home Thursday night. Barely. The CRJ-200 round trip to Cedar Rapids went reasonably well. We were a little bit late because the captain was on a flight that arrived late. He was new to the jet (he’d been a Beech 1900 Captain and had finished IOE on the jet a couple weeks ago),…