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Republican_Man
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 Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:14 pm JetBlue Flight Makes Emergency Landing |
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This is good news! I watched the landing. Quite amazing.
| Quote: | JetBlue Flight Makes Emergency Landing
LOS ANGELES � A JetBlue (search) airliner with its front landing gear stuck sideways landed safely Wednesday, balancing on its back wheels as it slowed on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport.
As the front wheels touched the runway, flames shot along the tarmac and the tires tore off, leaving the metal gear scraping the runway for the final few yards.
The pilots of Flight 292 had discovered the problem as they tried to retract the plane's landing gear shortly after leaving Burbank's Bob Hope Airport (search) bound for New York, said JetBlue spokesman Bryan Baldwin.
With 139 passengers on board, the plane circled the Los Angeles area for three hours as the pilots burned off fuel and officials tried to determine how to bring the plane in safely.
Federal Aviation Administration (search) spokesman Donn Walker said the Airbus A320 burned off fuel to lighten the plane for landing.
The plane first circled the Long Beach Airport, about 30 miles south of Burbank, then was cleared to land at Los Angeles, said LAX spokeswoman Nancy Castles.
Baldwin said the pilots had reported a landing gear indication light on shortly after takeoff at 3:17 p.m. The plane landed about 6:20 p.m.
[url="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170076,00.html"]Source[/url] |
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TrekkieMage
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| Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:32 pm |
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I heard about this earlier. There's a reason they require commercial pilots to have so many hours! Congrats to them for making it down safely 
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Alucard
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| Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:49 am |
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I heard about it too. I'm glad they managed to land safely.
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| Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:43 am |
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I heard it on the news tonight. Lucky they are!
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PrankishSmart
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| Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:23 pm |
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| TrekkieMage wrote: | | There's a reason they require commercial pilots to have so many hours! |
Flight hours can't really prepare them for a landing like that. It's something that the pilots would have had to deal with the best they could. That�s something they would not have predicted the outcome of by the end of the day. Their resourcefulness is what got them through the situation.
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Theresa
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| Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:18 am |
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What I love is that the passengers were watching themselves land on television.
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TrekkieMage
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| Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:42 pm |
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| PrankishSmart wrote: | | TrekkieMage wrote: | | There's a reason they require commercial pilots to have so many hours! |
Flight hours can't really prepare them for a landing like that. It's something that the pilots would have had to deal with the best they could. That�s something they would not have predicted the outcome of by the end of the day. Their resourcefulness is what got them through the situation. |
I agree, but the familiarity with the plane and the systems definatly helps.
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LightningBoy
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| Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:06 pm |
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Give the pilot a raise, and a bonus.
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Theresa
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| Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:23 pm |
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Odds are they'll investigate, and somehow end up blaming the pilot.
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TrekkieMage
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| Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:09 pm |
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^ No. It was a mechanical error, the pilot saved the plane. I don't think they can blame them.
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Theresa
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| Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:23 pm |
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Wanna bet? There was a flight where the prop fell off, (propeller). It was found that the prop was suffering from metal fatigue, and should have been replaced. A mechanical error. The company got fined for that. There was a further investigation. Into the pilots who had landed the craft safely, no casualties. Guess who's never flying again? And all they had done was land a broken, out of control air-craft.
Watch the Discovery Times channel, they have a lot of documentaries on this stuff.
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