Emergency landing PA28 with missing left wheel

Airborne Again.

This may ask more questions than it answers. First was the aircraft fitted with the early leg ? Second should the SB be extended to cover the late legs.

When my PA28 had the legs changed ( due fork cracking ) this area of the leg remained an area of interest during inspections.

ivark wrote:

I guess SB1131A ..

Can’t be. The aircraft in question is a PA-28-181 and that SB (and associated AD) doesn’t apply to that variant.

UdoR wrote:

Interesting to read, that one should in fact land on a concrete runway.

Yes one might think gras is nice and soft but parts seem to dig into the surface and then you no longer slide over the surface but come to a sudden stop. I once read that the same seems to apply for helicopter emergency landings. On hard surfaces the nose slides and on soft surfaces the nose digs in and makes things worse.

I guess SB1131A ..

A_and_C wrote:

Looks like someone has not been paying attention to the landing gear fork AD.

Which is…?

Looks like someone has not been paying attention to the landing gear fork AD.

It looks like it might be a damage free incident, except for bolt on stuff. Obviously the landing gear itself, tip fairing on the horizontal stabilizer and the tail skid. You’d surely want to inspect the horizontal stabilizer very carefully, and it might be damaged. That’s pretty good given the possibilities.

I would have quit the engine at least 10 seconds earlier, because it’s me paying it

But yes, well done. Interesting to read, that one should in fact land on a concrete runway. I would’ve tempted always a grass strip, because I learned so when flying gliders (you can make a landing with gear raised in a glider in a grass strip practically without damage, and be flying the next day again). But it sounds reasonable to go on asphalt with a powered vehicle. For example, this landing would have ended worse in grass, I think.

Very well executed indeed! Good skills, well done those guys.