CNN: American Airlines Flight with nose gear problem

[JonnyKnoxville]

AA 862 diverted to miami for a landing with nose gear problem.

On CNN now.

 

[jke406]

Hopefully everyone will be OK...

I just love the way the news people turn into airplane "experts" when something like this happens...

 

[Princedietrich]

They'll probably make a huge screaming ordeal out of it with nonstop coverage of the "doomed airliner" and then nothing will happen. The thing will touch down on a runway centerline, ride a wheelie for as long as possible, plop on the nose, a few sparks, and grind to a stop without ever deviating from centerline.

Edit: Just saw a photo that CNN had posted online of the plane in question. The nosegear is very obviously DOWN, and my guess is that this thing diverted because the gear wouldn't retract when commanded to. I'm willing to bet this will be a non-event when it lands.

 

[Dr Pokenhiemer]

Watching it on Fox News. This guy is your typical news idiot. "The spray deflector keeps water out of the internal compartments on the airplane". I wonder if these newscasters ever go back and watch the tape of the "crisis" and learn what fools they actually look like.

The plane is about five minutes from landing--again.

 

[rumpletumbler]

Thar she blows!

 

[sat74]

UNEVENTFUL AS EXPECTED!

Its really sad that all we get on the news are stories about Paris Hilton, Brittney Spears, and uneventful "emergencies" thanks to the foooking ignorant media listening in to ATC on their scanners so they can have something to rant about for hours on live TV.

 

[Dr Pokenhiemer]

I heard they were passing out American Cheese for a last meal of some sort about an hour ago. Film at eleven.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Lester Holt - CNBC

They will be landing on Runway 26L. The 26 is a reference to a magnetic heading. What you do is add a zero to the number, and the runway is basically on a westerly heading. There are 2 parallel runways, one on the left, one on the right. This is what the L denotes. They will be landing on the left runway on a westerly heading.

What a clown.....where do they get these guys? I tell ya.

 

[mhermann596]

Fox news was reporting the spray deflector as if someone had left the towbar attached to the airplane.

 

[pipe]

Trace Gallagher of FOX is still an idiot.

The "super" 80 still has a spray deflector.

The pilots still make too much money and only work 80 hours per month.

Oh yeah. US airlines are still safer than walking out to get the newspaper out of the driveway.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

With section 6 in the works, they should have called Arpey and demanded a pay snapback.

"Gerard, this is AA 862"

"Go ahead 862"

"Yeah, we got a little problem here. Im only getting 60% of my pay, which is fine. The thing is, I'm only able to do 60% of a flare at that rate. I think the touchdown will be fine, but we're probably gonna dribble the nosewheel down the runway like a basketball. Over."

"Hold as long as you can. We've gotta sell a few options in the office here real quick. Give us about 15 minutes and then dribble away".

PIPE

 

[JonnyKnoxville]

Now back to the regularly scheduled programing with General Lee flipping out about his dwindling career expectations.

 

[zonker]

Okay, so I add a zero to the number.

Got it.

 

[AKAAB]

CNN is still the most entertaining bunch of news idiots when they have to cover live news from the desk and don't have a teleprompter to read.

Capt Pfaffly actually did a pretty decent job trying to quell the mass-steria on CNN. Every time they tried to make it sound like the landing was anything out of the ordinary, he made it clear that it was a great landing and exactly as expected. No, the captain didn't use more runway than normal. Yes, the captain held the nose off as long as possible. Yes, you are an idiot for asking why pilots sound so calm when they are dealing with emergencies. (Okay, I added the last response, but they really did ask him how pilots sounded so calm.)

 

[densoo]

"In the case of pilots, these are people who, according to industry, on average make $140,000 while working less than 80 hours a month . . . Not only should the consumer not have to suffer as a result of this avarice, but many analysts are concerned that with labor costs rising so high, airlines will not be able to survive economically or will at least put themselves in a hole for years to come."

STATEMENT OF SENATOR JOHN McCAIN
CHAIRMAN SENATE COMMITTEE ON
COMMERCE, SCIENCE AND TRANSPORTATION
FULL COMMITTEE HEARING
ON THE STATUS OF LABOR ISSUES IN THE AVIATION INDUSTRY
APRIL 25, 2001

Just another avaricial pilot working just half time for $140K. Good thing they at least took some pride in their part-time work to save 100 or so lives.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Okay, so I add a zero to the number.

Got it.

How about the "L" and "R" parts? You ok there as well?