On TV now they're showing a JetBlue plane flying above LAX. The nose wheel is turned 90 degrees and stuck. :confused:
They had to dump a bunch of fuel in the ocean. :frown:
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On TV now they're showing a JetBlue plane flying above LAX. The nose wheel is turned 90 degrees and stuck. :confused:
They had to dump a bunch of fuel in the ocean. :frown:
this is gay. it's been "breaking news" for the past 2 hours. and they keep playing the same clip.
too bad for the ocean though :(
my call - it will either shear off the torque link (which connects the nosewheel strut to the nosewheel steering actuators), and allow the wheels to go back to center, or it will shear out the nosewheel steering actuators.
worst case - tires/wheels are torn off. I think the A320 nose landing gear retracts forward, not aft, so I don't think it will collapse.
but I'll watch it live here on fox news :rolleyes:
a quite prayer and crossed fingers...... :eek:
meh, it shouldn't be that bad. I highly doubt many people will be hurt, if at all. Probably going to result in one fucked up jet that some poor schmuck is going to have to figure out how to fix.
I was just working-out at the bluffs (which are over PCH, near the Santa Monica Pier, nearish LAX) and ran into a friend - we kept saying "what on earth is going on, with all the sirens and helicopters??!?!?" Now I know. :confused:
Those poor passengers, oh my god, can you imagine how you'd feel if you were inside that plane? oh man. :frown:
..... here it goes!
stuck in dispatch w/no tv...ironic.
DYING TO KNOW...seriously...what's up w/this?
down safe
damn. just landed. front wheel totally sideways, burned up quickly.
All is well.
Hell yeah!
That pilot is da' shiznit!
:yourock:
did you see that landing? Looked perfect, almost unreal.
Yeah, do you think anyone was watching the plane land on the satellite tv they have? ... do you think they left the tv's on? ...my friend and I agreed that a little porn would calm the nerves.
HA! that would be friggin unreal. Pretty sure i heard them just say they turned all monitors off for crash landing procedures/concentration.Quote:
Originally Posted by shmerham
That model couldn't dump the fuel--it had to be burned off. Good job cap'n.Quote:
Originally Posted by shmerham
I hope someone buys the crew a few beers and a couple of shots tonight!
Outstanding flying.... :biggrin:
much ado about nothing
nothing to see here folks, move along, cows turn themselves inside out all the time...
Just like NASCAR...round and round for hours waiting for something to happen... :wink:
THat was one hell of a landing pretty tough plane too. On a similar note one of my friends cousin flipped his plane a bit ago and flipped it back over with a come a long then duct taped the wing back together to get back to civilization
Oh yeah? Well, my brothers friend aunts nephew had a cousin who made a nuclear bomb out of a rubber band and a thimble. He made it out of the airport successfully.Quote:
Originally Posted by ak_powder_monkey
Glad that everyone is safe, the pilot did quite a good job. As I was sitting on the 405 tonight I saw the plane circling and then about 30 firetrucks pass me, my first response was to get out of there, but the lovely traffic held tight and I had a front row view of the landing.
here's a worse day:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...p/AERIAL_2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ANGLE_REAR.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../TRAILER_6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ap/TIRES_2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...R_QTR_VIEW.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...REAR_MLG_2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...hap/NO_NLG.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...EAR_DIRT_3.jpg
all pilot error, too. Sucky. Nobody hurt here either, which was a lucky thing when you consider there was a full cargo load inside at the time.
Better Fire & Rescue at LAX, I guess, since JetBlue flies into Long Beach... Hopefully this will not change now, since that's pretty much my favorite airport ever, and we're in there at least 2x a year flying JetBlue from Dulles.
Glad everyone's OK.
^^^^^^ "We don't need another heeeero
We just need to find the waaaaay home"
It'd help if the idiot didn't have his rudder pointing right for the dirt. :cussing:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jumper Bones
Two men enter. One man leaves.Quote:
Originally Posted by phUnk
cj001f you have an unbelievable amount of random knowledge at your disposal. You need to get your ass on jeopardy and show the mormon who is boss.Quote:
Originally Posted by cj001f
Stupid Air Force fucks!!! Wasnt that one in Bagram?
yupQuote:
Originally Posted by Steezus Christ
Bagram is in Afghanistanimation...old Soviet runway that is crumbling...so half of the runway is being repaired, leaving about 90ft of width left. Anyway the pilots for some reason ran off, into the side under construction. Sheared the nose landing gear off (which you can see lying on the side when the plane is on the flatbed trailer). Destroyed most of the stuff on the right side of the plane, and fucked a good portion of the airplane's frame up as well.
luckily they didn't run into the minefields that surround the base. :rolleyes:
Did you see pictures of the C-130 that landed on a closed runway that had a huge hole in it due to construction? That happened right after I left Tallil. Lucky only one person was injured... A loadmaster!
meh, that figures, I hear those guys are pussies!Quote:
Originally Posted by Steezus Christ
yeah the damage real was real similar - bottom of the aircraft ripped out, etc. That crash was unbelieveable, and I hope someone goes to jail for that because I can't believe that even the Army couldn't figure a gaping fucking hole in the runway like that to be a big deal. :cussing: :cussing: :cussing: