Hail producer makes heavy landing
At Stuttgart Airport, a pilot performs a fatal landing. A propeller plane's landing at Stuttgart Airport caused chaos. The 65-year-old pilot of the single-engine machine intended to land at the airport of the Baden-Württemberg state capital on a Wednesday evening and noticed only upon touching down that he had not extended the machine's landing gear, as reported by the police in Reutlingen.
The plane then touched down with its fuselage and slid several hundred meters over the runway before coming to a halt. No one was injured. The airport fire department then hoisted the aircraft, allowing the landing gear to be extended and the aircraft to be towed to its parking position.
Due to necessary cleaning work on the runway, air traffic was halted for a total of two hours. Numerous flights were canceled or rerouted, several hundred passengers were affected.
According to "Stuttgarter Nachrichten," the aircraft in question was a hail suppressor. These aircraft are used for hail suppression. They fly in thunderstorm clouds and spray substances such as silver iodide to prevent the formation of hailstones that can endanger harvests in agriculture.
An evacuation took place at Stuttgart Airport as early as June, just before the takeoff of an Airbus A319. The evacuation was ordered during the already ongoing boarding process, the police reported. 93 passengers and six crew members therefore had to leave the aircraft suddenly. According to the information given, a smoke detector alarm had gone off. The cause, according to current knowledge, was a defect in the hydraulics of a cargo door, which led to oil leakage.
The international hail suppressor aircraft, typically used for hail suppression, was the one involved in the incident at Stuttgart Airport. regretfully, an aircraft crash was averted due to the pilot's quick actions, as the plane landed without its landing gear extended.
