Gear-up landing Incident Canadair CT-133 Silver Star 3 (T-33/CL-30) N333MJ,
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Date:Friday 3 February 2012
Time:afternoon
Type:Silhouette image of generic T33 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Canadair CT-133 Silver Star 3 (T-33/CL-30)
Owner/operator:Thunder Five Inc.
Registration: N333MJ
MSN: T33-456
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage: Minor
Location:St. George Municipal Airport - KSGU, UT -   United States of America
Phase: Landing
Nature:Private
Departure airport:
Destination airport:KSGU
Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative:
The pilot of a Canadair CT-133 Silver Star 3 (T-33/CL-30), painted as TV-2 Shooting Star Bu137955 "0" of The Blue Angels, reported one of his main landing gear had locked up and wouldn’t lower. He decided to retract the gears for safety reasons and prepared belly landing.
Emergency services were were standby at St. George Municipal Airport - KSGU, UT, and coated the runway with foam before the pilot made a belly landing resulting in relative minor damage.

Both occupants escaped unhurt.
-5FEB2012. The aircarft is on its wheels and the problem has been discovered and corrected.

Sources:

http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2012/02/03/st-george-municipal-airport-provides-for-emergency-belly-landing/
http://fox13now.com/news/local/kstu-emergency-landing-blue-angel-aircraft-makes-emergency-landing-in-st-george-no-injuries-reported-20120203,0,5488459.story
http://www.good4utah.com/content/news/state/story/Replica-Blue-Angels-plane-makes-emergency-landing/rV_sLIA_bkGzMlLSkWG27Q.cspx_
http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20120203/NEWS01/120203009/Airshow-display-plane-makes-emergency-landing-St-George-Airport
https://www.theblaze.com/stories/fighter-plane-makes-amazing-belly-landing-without-landing-gear/
https://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/476956-t-33-lands-gear-up-st-george-ut.html
http://www.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/2/5/0430521.jpg (photo)

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
03-Feb-2012 21:05 RobertMB Added
05-Feb-2012 07:07 repete Updated [Narrative]
11-Feb-2012 03:23 gerard57 Updated [Source]
12-Feb-2012 09:32 Dr. John Smith Updated [Source, Embed code]
13-Aug-2012 13:20 harro Updated [Source]

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