Twice I've seen crop dusters come close enough to move wires. Missed seeing one snag a wire by a few minutes. Watched him fly for a bit and was heading home. Even 1/2 mile away I could hear the crash. Did a belly landing in the field, but luckily he was fine.
Still cringe whenever I see a plane fly anywhere near a power line.

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I have been reviewing the flight manual in the case of a front and main gear partial/non extend, and one thing to note is that both speed brakes and reverse thrust are not recommended. Doing a belly landing, you would image that coming to a complete stop is the most important aspect, and the manual does recommend dropping fuel to make for the slowest possible landing speed. However, speed brakes and reverse thrust can have an overwhelming asymmetric affect and hinder the ability to control the aircraft. They also recommend letting the engines touch down first, which we don't see here, instead he lets the tail hit first with a slight over flare. The guild recommends a engine first landing because you still have a good amount of rudder control until about 60 knots.

I just thought it interesting that the natural intuition, to stop a plane with no landing gear as fast as possible isn't actually the recommended solution. The real goal is to stop it with full control of the aircraft and a belly landing places a lot of power into the random hands of friction, which I find fascinating.

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