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10/10 for the pilot.......
Jon Ison - 22/9/05 at 08:20 PM

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......

nick205 - 22/9/05 at 08:36 PM

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

matt_claydon - 22/9/05 at 09:15 PM

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

Peteff - 22/9/05 at 10:10 PM

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.

steve_gus - 22/9/05 at 10:26 PM

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

NS Dev - 23/9/05 at 10:47 AM

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.

Mark18 - 23/9/05 at 12:05 PM

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