Jetliner with landing gear problems lands safely at LAX
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Jetliner with landing gear problems lands safely at LAX
140-ish passengers aboard... Jet Blue Airbus A320 from Long Beach, CA to JFK in NYC. Been burning fuel for over an hour now... should be landing shortly.
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I was on the phone with my son whose office is adjacent to the runway when the plane flew by his window. A couple dozen employees were with him.
"Dad, this is SO emotional....I just watched that plane come within a few hundred feet of me with all those people...wondering what was going to happen. Our whole office was SO quiet while it drifted past before it touched down."
I can only imagine the way the family members of those on board must have felt too.
Great job by the pilots, but what a tribute to the plane itself for reacting to its instructions just as it was supposed to.
Great job for a lot of folks....and a happy ending to boot!
"Dad, this is SO emotional....I just watched that plane come within a few hundred feet of me with all those people...wondering what was going to happen. Our whole office was SO quiet while it drifted past before it touched down."
I can only imagine the way the family members of those on board must have felt too.
Great job by the pilots, but what a tribute to the plane itself for reacting to its instructions just as it was supposed to.
Great job for a lot of folks....and a happy ending to boot!
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nystate wrote:Great landing!!!
That was my first reaction too. But then, after closely observing the video several times, it occured to me that perhaps it would've been safer had the pilots not stuck to the book.
Has anyone else noticed how every time the ill-fated nose gear went over the paint on the center line, the flames that shot out from it got more intense? Perhaps it was a reaction between the magnesium in the rims and the said paint, I don't know. IMHO, had the aircraft not been guided so expertly over that line, those extra flames would have been avoided.
Of course, one should not fault the pilots for doing what they have been trained to. The FAA might want to revise what to do in such an event, though.
Just my 2 cents worth.
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Skywatch_NC wrote:I thought fire crews would have foamed down the runway...the friction flames may have been taken care of in that way.
Just thankful the cockpit crew did an outstanding job and brought their passengers safely down!
Eric
According to a former pilot interviewed on CNN, runways are no longer foamed in a fire event because that method was found to be ineffectual.
You're right about the outstanding job of the cockpit crew, though. In this case, all's well that ends well!
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I was reading something on CNN that the pilot was joking with the media because he landed the plane off the center line. I thought, 'guy, you just landed a plane with mechanical landing gear problems'. That, my friend, is something that isn't done everyday. Kudos to the pilots. Here in the Middle East, we have CNN and everyone, including pilots were watching the landing... the chow hall was quiet when the plane was circling, and then we the pilot landed the plane, cheers of joy erupted.
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