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#1
Approximately 30 minutes ago Jetblue Flight 292 made an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport. The Airbus A230's front landing gear got stuck sideways shortly after takeoff. The front wheels flamed out by the landing, but the landing strut held up and so far there are no reported injuries. Passengers are being evacuated as I type this.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/21/air....ap/index.html
#2
Actually watched it land live. Glad everyone made it out ok.
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#3
Well, I saw it live, and for once I was surprised to see a successful airplane emergency story.
#4
It was an Airbus and not a Boeing plane...
Look at the other thread that chronologises the past several planes crashes in the previous months and see the make of planes... :fencing: (X-files music starts...)
Thank god everyone was safe! :yippee:
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#5
With the luxury of seeing it "post-game" on the leadin to the news, I had to laugh as the newscaster described "major malfunction" over the footage of a pipe of flame streaming from the nose landing gear wheel. I don't imagine it was funny for anyone in the plane, wondering if the strut would snap off and make the plane skid nose first and god knows what else-- I'm glad everyone is okay.
Waiting for 2 hours knowing you would be making an emergency landing would suck.
#7
It's good to see that not every plane malfunction ends in a fiery crash. Impressive fire stream on the news footage.
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#8
If you look closely, you will see that much of the metal part of the wheel is scrapped away 0.0
Glad no one was hurt
With 2 hours to wait before the emergency landing, I bet you many of those people managed to put their whole lives into perspective and sort out a lot of things in their head, work out was was important, make up with people, set new goals, be nicer ...
I wonder.
Plus, just think you could work out THE best crash position in that time.
#10
Cool, no one died. That makes me happy. The only damage done was of monetary value
Now after seeing the nice flames shooting out from under the front landing gear, I have one question. What the hell caused it to turn sideways? (Unless I'm missing something here)
#11
trizzdog: The proffesional aeronautical engineers are probably scratching their heads right now. That means they dont have a clue, as i've hever heard of something similar happen before [that made some kind of headlines somewhere-paper-'net-tv].
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#12
It may turn sideways on the way up into the wheelwell.
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Last edited by Stripe7; 22nd Sep 05 at 6:06 PM.
i was mad when i heard it was only the front landing gear. they media gave me the impression that all gears where broken. as my dad said, "It's like when a car drives over a spike strip."<------- thats how I'd describe it tooo.
#14
Regarding happened to the gear, all larger airliners are controlled on the ground by a hand tiller, which relays control inputs (especially on the fly-by-wire airbuses) to the nose wheel. Combined with the method of gear retraction on the A320 series, I would imagine that something went wrong, either with the actuators or the software, to lock the nosewheel sideways.
#15
According to that news article some 7 of these nose gear incidents have happened before, all with no casualties.
#16
Hydraulic malfunction on rotating the gear is what I'd wager on, like Stripe said. Another case of "faulty O-ring" sealants except this one ended well.
I watched it live, those were some impressive landing skills and some even more impressive sparks. And in the end no damage was done except an A320 leaving its front landing gear in a 4000 foot scrape on the runway. The worst part was that I was in a common area at the time and had to explain to each new person that showed up what was going on and why he was circling the airport for as long as possible instead of just putting it down.
To tell the truth, it surprised (and deep down, somewhat disappointed) me that the front landing gear didn't snap and the plane didn't slide on its nose down the runway.
#17
i've seen a KC-135 slide 5000' down a runway without nose gear at all, and the gear doors alone were able to keep the nose off the ground for much of the landing. it takes a lot to collapse a reinforced gear leg, whether the wheels are working (or there) or not. besides, with proper soft-field technique, like the JetBlue pilot exercised, you can keep weight and stress off the nose gear for the majority of the landing roll.
#18
Besides the fact that everbody luckily made it out safe...
Why the heck is it normal on American channels to air LIVE..
-Car Chases
-Suicides
-Hostage situiations...
-Emergency landings..
(thinks about old DC-10 crash, in which have the people on the flight died)
Are ratings that important to show dangerous situations in which possibaly (a lot of) people can die???
Then why is America then so afraid of explicit sexual images, etc...???
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#19
I move to give every passenger parachutes
#20
seconded.
How much training is neccessary to use a parachute? How long would it take to clear out an airplane of passengers willing to use them I wonder.
#22
lots to both. ever jumped off something high? most people are terrified of falling.
#23
Dark_axel: yeah, ratings. But I think after the LA police chase that ended in a shotgun suicide when the cameras were zoomed in, most 'live' newscasts are on a 7-second delay. Though, think about it from the other side. Why should the media 'protect' us from ongoing situations? Live feed video is probably about as factual and objective as they can get.
Regarding sex, I don't know why there's a double standard. Maybe there's a difference in the negative and positive emotions associated with each. While tragedies affect a lot of people negatively, sex more or less just pleases a few people at one time and might as well be private. Plus, it's actually pretty mundane.
#24
this is why you have life pods.
I say equip airliners with ejection seats. And maybe parachutes.
Oh, and one of each holy books too.
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