But, this was not a gear up landing. It was a gear collapse while
taxiing. I suppose there might be some crossover to GA if it was pilot
error and B-17's had no "weight-on" interlock.



"Peter Duniho" wrote in message ...
"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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[...]It's hardly likely that anyone is going to learn anything from
a gear-up on a B-17 that will help prevent another incident.

Why not? Are you trying to say that the B-17 is so completely different
from other aircraft that a gear-up landing in a B-17 has absolutely NO
parallels with a gear-up landing in any other aircraft, no similarities at
all?

In that particular case, if I recall, there was a mechanical failure. But
until someone's actually investigated the cause, there would be no way to
know that.

Personally, I think that gear-up landings most often happen for very similar
reasons, ones that don't have anything to do with the specific aircraft type
at all. I doubt that the NTSB's lack of interest in the B-17 gear-up
landing has anything to do with lack of relevance to other operators. They
aren't interested because it's just not within the scope of what they are
responsible for.

Pete