Greetings, Jim!
  On 18 Jul 97, Jim Cole entered the following ASCII codes for the express 
viewing pleasure of Bill Wunsch:
 BW>> In FLYING magazine, there was an article about a DC-9 that landed
 BW>> gear up and took 7000 feet to come to a stop.
 JC> Bill, we used to go into 4800-5000 ft Army strips in the DC9-32F.  We
 JC> had brakes plus reverse and also put it on the numbers.  They were
 JC> probably fast, worried about the touch down, probably had less than full
 JC> flaps, no drag,
All of the above.  They knew they didn't have flaps, but the lack of wheels 
came as a surprise.
 JC>  floated and 7,000ft was the measured distance when it
 JC> was all through.
It says, and I quote "The airplane touched down at 190 knots with its landing 
gear up.  It slid nearly 7,000 feet down the runway and onto the grass beside 
it."
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