Holy crap

lucky81698 · 09-21-2005, 06:51 PM

Just saw the JetBlue plane circling over LA witht he nose gear turned 90 degrees. I hope they can land without anyone getting hurt.

rgphib · 09-21-2005, 07:32 PM

I just read that too on Yahoo when I went to check my email. It was updated 22 minutes ago when I read it, so I hope they have landing safely by now. That is so scary.

Here is the link to the yahoo news
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050922/...nes_jetblue_dc

lucky81698 · 09-21-2005, 08:22 PM

It was all live on TV. The crew did an awesome job. There were just some sparks, the gear stayed at the 90 degrees and they stopped on the runway. Doesn't look like any problems, thank goodness.

MQAAord · 09-21-2005, 09:05 PM

The worst thing that could have happened would be that the nose gear would have collasped, and there may be some sparks.

Really, not that big a deal.

They did a great job. Must have been Hella boring driving around up there for 3 hours burning fuel.

lucky81698 · 09-21-2005, 10:12 PM

I guess this exact thing with the nosegear turning like that has happened before on the Airbus. My brother is mechanic for JetBlue (furloughed UAL) and said he saw the same thing happen on 2 UAL planes, 1 HP plane, and this is actually thes second time on JetBlue. I asked him how the heck the gear could turn like that and he said it is an installation error.

The pilots still did a great job.

09-21-2005, 06:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
lucky81698 Jetgirls Ol' School Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: 1 Posts: 868 Recipes: Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Holy crap Just saw the JetBlue plane circling over LA witht he nose gear turned 90 degrees. I hope they can land without anyone getting hurt.

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rgphib Jetgirls Ol' School Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NH Posts: 849 Recipes: Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	Re: Holy crap I just read that too on Yahoo when I went to check my email. It was updated 22 minutes ago when I read it, so I hope they have landing safely by now. That is so scary. Here is the link to the yahoo news http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050922/...nes_jetblue_dc __________________ ~Robyn~ Wife to a new Southwest FO....and Mommy to Jack!

09-21-2005, 08:22 PM	#3 (permalink)
lucky81698 Jetgirls Ol' School Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: 1 Posts: 868 Recipes: Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Holy crap It was all live on TV. The crew did an awesome job. There were just some sparks, the gear stayed at the 90 degrees and they stopped on the runway. Doesn't look like any problems, thank goodness.

09-21-2005, 09:05 PM	#4 (permalink)
MQAAord Jetgirls Ol' School Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: A Happy Place Posts: 668 Recipes: Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Holy crap The worst thing that could have happened would be that the nose gear would have collasped, and there may be some sparks. Really, not that big a deal. They did a great job. Must have been Hella boring driving around up there for 3 hours burning fuel.

09-21-2005, 10:12 PM	#5 (permalink)
lucky81698 Jetgirls Ol' School Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: 1 Posts: 868 Recipes: Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Holy crap I guess this exact thing with the nosegear turning like that has happened before on the Airbus. My brother is mechanic for JetBlue (furloughed UAL) and said he saw the same thing happen on 2 UAL planes, 1 HP plane, and this is actually thes second time on JetBlue. I asked him how the heck the gear could turn like that and he said it is an installation error. The pilots still did a great job.

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