Jon Ison
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| posted on 22/9/05 at 08:20 PM |
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10/10 for the pilot.......
Just caught the plane landing on tv with faulty front landing gear, 3 hours waiting too crash land can't be fun,
Great landing by the pilot......
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nick205
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| posted on 22/9/05 at 08:36 PM |
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saw that earlier  like you say must have been a serious "touching cloth" moment for those on the plane. I can't believe they
managed to land the plane so well and not rip the front undercarriage off.
Looking at te way the front wheels were rotated I wonder if they rotate for storage in the fuselage? If so that seems like a problem waiting to
happen to me.
Nick
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 22/9/05 at 09:15 PM |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4270134.stm
Amazing video, and to think the passenger were able to watch the landing themselves live from outside the plane on the in-flight TV screens!
Matt
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Peteff
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| posted on 22/9/05 at 10:10 PM |
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I wonder if they rotate for storage in the fuselage?
They rotate to steer the plane when it's taxiing. That's not a design fault. Aeroplanes are an accident waiting to happen anyway, the only
thing that keeps them in the air is the belief of the people on board. If everyone on board stops believing they can fly they just drop.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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steve_gus
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| posted on 22/9/05 at 10:26 PM |
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pete, if that happens, just take a tip from the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy.
the secret of flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss. The trick is to distract yourself just before the moment of impact.....
atb
steve
http://www.locostbuilder.co.uk
Just knock off the 's'!
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NS Dev
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| posted on 23/9/05 at 10:47 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by nick205
saw that earlier like you say must have been a serious "touching cloth" moment for those on the plane. I can't believe they
managed to land the plane so well and not rip the front undercarriage off.
Looking at te way the front wheels were rotated I wonder if they rotate for storage in the fuselage? If so that seems like a problem waiting to
happen to me.
Nick
I think they do rotate to stow. From what I gather the failure was that of the wheels extending but then not automatically rotating to the straight
ahead position.
Absolutely 10/10 to the pilot for the highly controlled landing though.
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Mark18
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| posted on 23/9/05 at 12:05 PM |
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They were kind of lucky in a way that the wheels were prefectly perpendicular, as opposed to at some kind of angle which would pull the front off to
one side. Pilot did very well though, bout time we had something with a happy ending.
Mark
"I don't know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself
now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." -
Isaac Newton
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