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BearCDPOLD
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 04:38
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I just watched the news and saw Flight 292 from Jet Blue land with crooked nose gear. The pilot kept it on the back wheels for a long time, then when the nose touched the nose gear sparked a lot, but didn't snap off and slowed the plane down to a halt within a second or two. Must have been unnerving for the people inside, but damn that pilot is good.




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i just saw the video in australia on the news as well, looked great

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Dave J
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 05:07
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I watched the news this morning but I don't recall hearing anything about it.


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I just read about this a short while ago, had a bad feeling... I'm glad this turned out alright. Obviously someone was actually paying attention in flight school

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 05:50
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Quote: "then when the nose touched the nose gear sparked a lot, but didn't snap off and slowed the plane down to a halt within a second or two."


That's not actually true, that baby was sparking for a good 20 seconds and even caught fire as the plane slid down the runway and they didn't even show us the whole footage, they had to cut to the end where it had stopped.


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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 06:43 Edited at: 22nd Sep 2005 08:28
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I saw it live on streaming video. The pilot had to circle for ages to use up as much fuel as possible, then slowly brought it in for the landing.

The front wheel sparked, burst into flames and no doubt screeched like nothing on earth. It finally came to a stop, but they didn't open the door for a long time. The front wheel was a melted mess.

I'm going to be flying out of LAX airport this coming monday - I want him as the pilot, please

Edit: Or her, could have been a her. You never know. (At least, I don't yet, I'm sure they'll be all over the news soon).
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 06:47
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I'm not really comfortable with airplanes, but if the pilot is as good as the one you guys are talking about I wouldn't mind.

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 06:54
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Exeat, I saw it live, but thinking back my sense of time was probably distorted.

My dad's got a private pilot's license and watched it, he got a real kick out of that smooth landing.


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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 07:22
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Quote: "Exeat, I saw it live, but thinking back my sense of time was probably distorted."


It must've been unless they somehow showed us the special edition version of the landing that was filmed elsewhere in the airport.


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I was on a plane this summer that aborted just a few seconds before landing. Imagine the power behind a take off. Then imagine that as you are actually descending, and trying to go back up again. When we reached altitude again and levelled out, it was like being on the crest of a roller coaster.

It was nothing critical, but a few people were shouting and crying. Turned out the plane before us burst a tyre and they couldn't get off the runway.

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 14:31
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Quote: "what a ripoff, not a single casualty or major injury."


Possibly the sadest thing I've ever heard.


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Get this...the passengers were watching themselves on the news, inclusing the close-up of the front wheel when it hit the tarmac! The plane has seat-back screens and live news.

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You'd come in very slowly, and basically keep yourself flared for ages until you'd slowed enough to touch. Usually reverse thrust / autobrakes kick in when the front wheel touches the ground, but in this case he must have braked while flared.

Pretty cool. Might try that on FS later.

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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 20:44
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Must be wierd watching your own plane from within your plane.


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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 21:12
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Yeah - fancy leaving the TVs on?

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come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 21:46 Edited at: 22nd Sep 2005 21:48
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I just bet that while the pilot was trying to keep everybodys arse in one peice some genious was trying to wave at the window and see if they could see it on the tv



(what would have realy sucked was if the news people flashed a caption like "200+ airline passengers about to die")

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lol @ 200 passengers about to die

if you look around on the bbc website you can get footage of the plane.

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I just saw this today.. but boy it must've been scary for the passengers.. hovering above LA for 3 hours thinking, "oh no! me might die!", but luckily to that cool pilot, they survived

but man, that plane did a wheelie for ages


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Posted: 22nd Sep 2005 23:28
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Quote: "The pilot of Flight 292 Owns"

that sums it up

I was playing rainbow six 3, then died, so i turned to larryking, and, i see this plane landing with some messed up landing gear. That pilot rox my sox

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Quote: "but man, that plane did a wheelie for ages"


well, to be fair, planes land on their back wheels anyway... all the pilot had to do was pitch down slower than normal. i don think this pilot's actions were any more greater than what any other pilot would have done.

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Posted: 23rd Sep 2005 00:31 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2005 00:32
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Edit: Some of you have already read this in another thread.

I saw it on a live news broadcast yesterday. They milked it for all they could. For about an hour they kept saying "It's going to land any minute." About 10 minutes after it landed they switched to news about the newest hurricane... gotta keep the suspense up. :-(

I'm glad it wasn't it didn't end up a horrible fireball... but I bet the news guys were dissapointed it turned out ok.
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yeah i agree with the news thing, on wednsday, there was a bunch of premiers on TV and they interupted all of them by the news so they could talk about a tornado that just happended(past tense) and they blabbed about the damage and power outages, and i miss my show, im pretty sure that the ppl there new that a tornado went thru, so no need telling me or anyone else about it till the mornin.

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