REAL EMERGENCY PIPER LOST THE WHEEL COCKPIT VIEW (REAL ATC AUDIO)

OK, so it's this, where the white stripe is the runway? That's the threshold, yeah. And the glider strip is to the right? Yeah. You're a little bit on the high side for such a short runway. I would go lower. OK, full power. Right side, right foot, right foot. Yeah, leave the flaps. Just go into the air. Accelerate. 65. A little bit to the left now. Because of the track. And now you can go select flaps 2. Yeah, I've got positive on flaps 2. OK, so I didn't have the direction on control. Hotel Quebec Lima, we've noticed the left wheel is missing. Thank you, we will come for another low pass, if you can check us please. Yes, we will. OK, it looks like we have lost the wheel. Not so good, huh? Yeah. OK, my controls? Your controls. OK, we come for a low pass, if somebody can check if the wheel is still there or what happened to the gear. Yeah, the pilots are looking out. Thank you. OK, we lost the gear. But the landing was OK, huh? So, we make a low pass to see if they misjudge and then we would go to Basel and inform the fire brigade. If it's really, or I will call Thierry to make a formation flight with us. Hotel Quebec Lima, turning base for a low pass. We checked flaps 1 and 2. Hotel Quebec Lima, final runway 25 for a low pass. She said the left wheel. Check the runway if you see if there is a wheel from us. Or if there is any damage on the runway. OK, he said thumbs down, so that means the gear is missing or something. I didn't see any wheel or something. Did you see anything? No, and I didn't see any evidence that, like when could it have happened? Surely it would... Quebec Lima, indeed left landing gear is missing. OK, can you confirm the complete landing gear or just the wheel? The whole left wheel is missing. OK, thank you very much. We will leave direction Basel, leaving the circuit to direction Geltegrinden. Thank you, bye bye. Thank you. OK, I try to reduce the mixture to save some fuel. So, we fly straight to Basel, inform the guys and if you want you can fly. I will talk with the tower. OK, no controls. So, try to find Sierra as fast as possible. Maybe reduce a little bit the power to save some fuel. I will call Thierry. 1159, contact approach 119.355, bye bye. 119.355, 1159, bye bye. I wonder, did I do something to break it or did it break and that's why the aircraft was... That could be, yes. Thierry, hi. I am in Quebec Lima, on the way from Schupfen to Basel. Yes, I don't know if the left wheel or the whole left gear, they said. I did a low pass. And the pilots showed me, thumbs down, don't land, the left wheel is missing. Do you want something light? Yes. Are you in the air? Gladly, yes. I fly the taxiway, are you there? Good. Ok, can you call me back later, then I go to ECO and get it. Ah yes, that's good. Good. See you later, bye. Altower, bonjour, Hotel Bravo Papa, Quebec Lima. Hotel Quebec Lima, bonjour. Bonjour, we are coming back from Schupfen, inbound Sierra for a low pass. We have a message that our left landing gear is missing. We would like to do a low pass on taxiway Bravo, so Thierry Spichtin from the Flugschule can check it. Hotel Bravo Papa, Quebec Lima, roger, squawk 3410, QNH 1019, are they aware of your request? Yes, I spoke with them on the phone, and squawking 3410. Ok, so Sierra ECO, then join left and downwind runway 15, and you can let me know if you want to do a short circuit. Thank you, Sierra ECO next, Hotel Quebec Lima. So, what else? Can you do the emergency checklist if you find something about landing gear, my controls? Your controls, landing gear, I never see anything on landing gear in here. Do I need to check the AFM? No, I think that's useless if it's not there. Open door, no, there's nothing about landing gear in here. So, as far as from the videos I know, if you go on grass, the risk of inducing too much drag, you make a ground loop. So, we rather go on concrete, on asphalt, but there we have the risk of sparks, so fire. So, we need to have as less fuel as possible. We go full flaps, so as slow as possible. And what else? Well, in order to keep the left wheel as high as possible, it's maybe good if you try to sit on the right-hand side, so we can be as much in the air as long as possible. What else? Fuel select is on the left-hand tank? It is, yeah. So, we empty maybe this tank. If there's a risk of fire, then it's maybe this tank. So, we empty the left one more or less completely. Then we have more weight. So, for the low pass, it will be on the runway, please. And could you confirm the number of persons on board? Two POB and low pass on the runway, Hotel Quebec Lima. Thank you, call back at Echo. Welcome, Quebec Lima. There's a helicopter underneath us, he didn't tell us about that. Okay. This was just going past there. Really? Yeah. I'm a little bit too low anyway. Yeah, we have enough fuel anyway. Well, we want to have little fuel, so... Yeah, so let's burn some fuel. No, I was just thinking if we need to talk, you know, we have... I want to have as much fuel as possible. Okay, your controls quickly, I will speak with Thierry again. Hotel Quebec Lima, for information, we will put the fire brigade next to the runway to have a look as well. You can speak with him. Roger, Hotel Quebec Lima. Yes, Thierry? Can you hear me? Hello, hello? Thierry? Thierry, can you hear me? Hello? Yes, now I can hear you. The tower said I can't go over the taxiway, I have to make the low pass on the runway. So a little bit left of the centerline. Good. Do you have a field stick or something? Hotel Quebec Lima, the fire brigade will be between... Well, one at Golf, one at Hotel. Good, okay. So not too short approach. Good, all right. I'll be there in two minutes. Roger, Hotel Quebec Lima. See you. Yeah, sorry, I didn't get the message. The fire brigade is going to be Golf and Hotel, so they said not to do too short. Don't come down too short. Too early. Ah, okay. The GoPro is on? It's on now. So at least we have something to remember. So, say that again. The fire brigade is not at the beginning? No, Golf Hotel. Golf Hotel. Yeah. The normal, our normal speed. Okay, so we do a nice low pass and in front of the Flugschule we go a little bit on the left-hand side so Thierry can check as well. Yeah, there is no way we can visually check. No, that's the problem. And if they hadn't told us... Yeah, we would have known. We would have just landed, yeah? Okay, what the hell is going on? You land and you didn't know you didn't have a wheel. That would be... Yeah, that... Well, actually we are quite lucky in this situation. So you can go downwind and... Yeah. It's actually Golf and Hotel they're at. Yeah. Hotel Quebec Lima turning final runway 15 for the low pass. Hotel Quebec Lima, roger, cleared for low pass runway 15, wind 310 degrees, 3 knots. Cleared low pass 15, Quebec Lima. Go a little bit left because they can check now. Okay, minimum 70 knots. Okay, as of my control. Hotel Quebec Lima, report when ready to complete. We seem to be working good enough to where we can drop a few thousand. Yeah. And faster to start. So let's open the door. Hotel Quebec Lima, request? Hotel Quebec Lima, go ahead. Can you confirm the left main landing wheel was missing? Affirm, sir. Thank you. So not that we have any confusion now. So the left one is missing. So we keep full aileron to the right as long as possible. You cut off everything in final. When I say, okay, fuel off... I wait for your signal and then I'm cutting this. I'm turning off the fuel. Okay, what else? Electrics off. Yeah, let's switch off all electrics. I'll do that. I'll turn the fuel off and then I'll turn the electrics off. Try to bend to my side. Because the more weight we have on the right-hand side, the better it is. I'll put my seat back then. A bit more space. Okay, I put my back on the right-hand side. What else? Rudder trim. Rudder trim. I need full right rudder now. I need a lot of right rudder, yeah. Does that make sense? Yeah, I will cut... Let's cut the engine as long as... As late as possible. As late as possible because I want to have some controls. Sure. Well, I mean, I can even wait till we're cutting down. Sorry? I can wait till we're cutting down if you want. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, as soon as I do the power off, I will cut. Yeah. But you check the ignition and the fuel pump and the fuel... You know how to select fuel selector off? I know how. Do I have... You remember the... There's a little slip here. I just need to find it again. Behind, yeah. You need to press it down. Yeah, that's okay. I can do that. What else? Yeah, as soon as you touch down and you feel that the wing is coming down, you come to my side. I will maybe open the door just to put as much weight on the right-hand side as I can. Yeah? There is nothing we can do. I think that's all, yeah. Okay. So, let's do it? Anthony? You agree with runway 26? I agree with runway 26. Hotel Quebec Lima, we are ready for the landing request runway 26. Hotel Quebec Lima, roger. Proceed as you want. Report final runway 26. Roger. Just for information, we switch off everything on short final, so we cannot talk anymore. Okay, no problem. Bravo, Bravo, hold short holding point. Bravo, emergency landing on 26. Okay, I switch off all the lights because I don't need the lights. Hotel Quebec Lima, the wind 290 degrees, 9 knots. Thank you, Hotel Quebec Lima. I switch off NAV comp 2. ADF, I don't need. I don't need the transponder. TOP6A2, Romeo Uniform, bonjour. Hold short runway 15, we have emergency landing. Good, you ready? I'm ready. ADF, TOP6A2, bonjour. TOP6A2, I call you back. Hotel Quebec Lima, turning long final 26. Quebec Lima, thank you. Hotel Quebec Lima, you cleared to land runway 26. Cleared to land 26, Hotel Quebec Lima. We make a long landing and we will come to a stop after runway exit 15. Quebec Lima, merci, the fire brigade is on the way. Okay, you can cut off everything. Come to my side. Okay, get out. Emergency landing in Basel. The complete left main wheel is off. Devin, Devin, Devin, Devin. Alright, all done. 78, depart out of runway 15, squawk 1,000, turn aviation 3, 7, Hotel. Devin, you ready? Devin, you ready for taxi?