Close call landing with stuck gear..

[bugjuice]

this just shows engineering at it's very best. Textbook landing, against the odds..

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A JetBlue airliner with its front landing gear stuck sideways safely landed Wednesday, balancing on its back wheels as it slowed on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport.

The story here (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/21/airliner.emergency.ap/index.html) and footage here (http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/us/2005/09/21/von.plane.landing.kabc) (look for the pic of the plane in the column on the right)

Just thought this was pretty spectacular, and those pilots need a drink!

[TwoSeven]

I flicked it on to CNN, but they didnt seem to be interested in it.

[Sniper]

Cool, that was skills

[Zed]

Yeah well done, bit risky though. I would have thought if the pilot knew it was sideways he could have stayed in the air and someone could maybe climb down and straighten it from the inside...you know, like they do on the movies!

What do I know, front wheel probably isn't accessible from the inside of the plane?? :bye:

[eliot-ness]

Watched it tv. Stopped breathing till the plane came to a standstill. Bloody scary, reckon the pilot should get a medal. The worst ordeal would have to have been for the passengers. the whole incident was being shown on the personal TVs in the passenger cabin.

[Waylander]

Just saw it on 3news, damn that's some skill. Smart thinking too. Much props to that pilot.

[WINJA]

THAT PILOT WAS FUCKEN GREAT , HE DESERVES A BEER AND 2 WHORES AT THE SAME TIME FOR THAT EFFORT

[N4CR]

CNN didn't show it eh.... weird. Mabey it was the whole Boeing being US made plane which has had a few bad crashes lately being showed up by a Airbus made by Europe that was strong enough in the undercarrage to withstand landing with a wheel the wrong way.

Airbus makes planes with composite materials, hence they are generally stronger and more advanced. CNN could be controlled by the US govt, and they don't want to loose money from not having boeings in the sky.

Jeez I'm a great conspiracy theorist

p/t

That was amazing I must say. Landing gear took all the stress without snapping off. I would have thaught the plane might have been hard to handle at low speeds (eg 40knots) with the landing gear like that scraping the ground - Kudos to the pilots. I have seen pics of this happen on a lear jet once... 'scrrrrrrappeeeee' as the gear snapped off and the front of the plane goes for a faceplant.

This reminded me of the emergency stopping test footage of 747's. The footage involved locking up $24,000US of tyres and a couple of hundred thousand of brakes and lower landing gear assembly. This means a crapload of smoke and burning and melting wheel assemblies etc.

[Jantar]

Apparently this is the 4th time it has happened to an A320 in the past 12 months.

Air New Zealand operates 11 A320s. :crazy:

[Dadpole]

The 4th incident for the A320. Bet that info was straight to the media from Boeing.

PS Useless information dept.
Someone once calculated that the human heart pumps enough blood during an average lifetime to fill the fuel tanks on 2000 Boeing 747's

Bet you will sleep better knowing that.

[Jantar]

The 4th incident for the A320. Bet that info was straight to the media from Boeing.


No, not just the 4th incident for an A320, but the 4th time in a year that the the nose wheel has failed to retract due to turning 90 degrees, and requiring an emergency landing. Information from NTSB.

[Dadpole]

Note to self: Don't fly on A320

[Lou Girardin]

I was waiting for the stoppie.

[pyrocam]

finally saw it on the late night news

well done

[Juan]

Note to self: Don't fly on A320


AAAHHHHHHHH... we are on A320 or two during our trip to see you guys..... everywhere I look planes are having problems :crybaby: :drinkup: :drinkup: :drinkup:

[ManDownUnder]

Am out of the country at the mo, and
Watched it live.

Touched down right down the middle of the runway... AWESOME effort. I was thinking "They get my business" but then wondered if they are up to date with all the required mods on the aircraft, including the known fault that causes the front landing gear to do exactly that...

OOPSIE!
MDU

[riffer]

AWESOME effort. I was thinking "They get my business" but then wondered if they are up to date with all the required mods on the aircraft, including the known fault that causes the front landing gear to do exactly that...

Yeah, budget airline and all that. You get what you pay for, I suppose.

However, let's not take anything away from the pilot. Gini and I watched it live. Nice wheelie.

I'd say the pilot just helped his career out no end.