Carpatair Flight 128

Carpatair Flight 128, a Saab 2000 (Registration YR-SBI) going from , Moldova to carrying 51 people, makes an emergency landing at Traian Vuia International Airport without its forward landing gear, on February 28, 2009 at 09:44 , 07:44 UTC.
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One of the pilots later said they were about six miles (10 kilometers) from the airport when they discovered they had a problem with the landing gear, and alerted the aviation authorities.
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"We did our job without feeling like heroes," Moldovan pilot Iurie Oleacov told reporters. ... "We weren't scared, we are trained for these kinds of situations." But Oleacov, 37, said he had never encountered this situation outside of training sessions.
"All the passengers are OK. They were calm," he added.
The company said Oleacov and the other Moldovan pilot, Leonid Babischi, 47, were highly experienced.
"The plane came down on the side wheels; it braked sharply and at a low speed it came on its front belly, while the front landing gear remained stuck," Dan Andrei, the airline's vice president, said.

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