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Fire Fighting Tanker Belly Landing at Minden-Tahoe Airport


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Contact photographer Ashley Wallace – Touchdown-Aviation

What: Minden Air Corp Lockheed SP-2H Neptune
Where: Minden-Tahoe Airport in Carson Valley
When: June 3, 2012 3:30 pm.
Who: 2 aboard
Why: The inbound tanker was unable to lower all of it’s landing gear, and burned off (about 7000 gallons) of fuel before it made a belly landing at 3:30 pm.

Neither the pilot nor the co-pilot were injured but the plane did skid off the runway.

The air tanker is a fire-fighting plane which had been engaged in fighting a wildfire south of Reno.

Two videos of this tanker landing

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