On (22 Jan 98) Jim Sanders wrote to All...
 JS>       Plane carrying ex-Tenn. governor makes emergency landing
 JS>      RICHMOND, Va. -- Jan 21, 1998 7:19 p.m. EST -- A small private
 JS>  plane carrying former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander and three other
 JS>  people made an emergency landing Wednesday because of a problem with
 JS>  its landing gear. No one was injured.
 JS>      Two of the plane's three wheels failed to come down.  A third
 JS>  wheel collapsed when the plane touched down, and it landed on its
 JS>  belly at 4:22 p.m. at Richmond International Airport.
 JS>      During the flight, the crew heard a banging sound in the rear of
 JS>  the Beachcraft Baron and discovered the landing gear would not
 JS>  deploy, said Stephanie Holt, a spokeswoman for Martinair Inc., which
 JS>  owns the plane.
 I had that happen to my 310 one time, but the 'bang' came from the
 front, not the back.  What the heck is back there that would
 affect the gear?
 (The 'bang' was while I was retracting the gear just after t/o,
 it was one of the struts breaking when something caught on the
 nosewheel door that wasn't open all the way, apparently...)
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