JetBlue emergency landing (merged)

[Gulfstream 200]

Christ, is that a joke? "you fly it around and get the fuel where you want" .. sure, assuming the plane remains sufficiently airworthy to burn fuel for a few hours. You gotta be kidding dude.

nah not kidding "dude"

Alright, I'll assume you are not flamebait and maybe just a slow Microsft fltsim type of fella who migrated over from airliners.net -- close?

ya might want to fly it around, do some checklists (you familiar?) call ops, call France...talk to techs....ponder alternates...get everyone involved in the decision...let emergency crews set-up...

or you can panic like a freak and throw it back on the runway? just get it down now right? why?

whats wrong with keeping it in the air?

What if its on fire you say? land it overweight right now.... dont you think maybe this was taken into consideration during certification?

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[pilot91101]

The best thing is a thread with 144 post and nothing about Netjets.

i wonder if their management just offered them a 1.2% raise

Maybe not av8orboy.

 

[NYCPilot]

Well this pilot definitely earned his 15 minutes.



Famous words of Andy Warhol - “in the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes”

 

[Dangerkitty]

I'll be the first to admit that I don't know much about aviation, but doesn't this underscore how dangerous it is to not have fuel dumping facilities available? In order to avoid an overweight landing, the aircraft in distress must orbit for god knows how long with whatever problems they're having as opposed to just dumping the fuel and making an immediate landing.

Can you please define what a fuel dumping facility is?

 

[Av8rPHX]

MSNBC has a pax who was on the flight on the phone right now... he says that they were watching the coverage on DirectTV while they circled. Coverage was shut off about 5 min before landing. Thats gotta be kinda crazy to be sitting on the plane and watching your plane circle on live tv.

 

[Dangerkitty]

The Aviation "Expert" Robert Hager just stated on MSNBC that a nose gear cocked 90' off center had the potential to flip the aircraft over on landing.

I have now heard it all. I don't think any idiot reporter can top that stupid statement.

 

[Av8rPHX]

The Aviation "Expert" Robert Hager just stated on MSNBC that a nose gear cocked 90' off center had the potential to flip the aircraft over on landing.

I have now heard it all. I don't think any idiot reporter can top that stupid statement.

Hahaha yeah i heard that too, didnt know it was Robert Hager, but yeah... thats about one of the dumbest things I've heard.

 

[421Driver]

America West captain just interviewed on FOXNews. He said if the centering mechanism on the nosewheel failed, the nosewheel automatically "blows" to the 90 position. Makes sense, better than having a 45 or anything less for that matter. The tires can melt off and the plane skids away as we just saw.

 

[MJG]

Crazy, they (MSNBC) are interviewing these passengers via cellphone that are sitting on these busses litterally 50 ft. from the Airbus. Talk about up to the minute news.


More importantly.....Nice work gents. I'm still amazed that it didn't veer off to one side or another. That runway will have quite the gouge in it.

 

[DrewBlows]

Holy Moly! They kept that thing right on center line. I have a hard time doing that in a perfectly functional airplane. Nice job fellas.

 

[Kream926]

differential braking


sais the DC-10 sioux city captain

 

[DrewBlows]

America West captain just interviewed on FOXNews. He said if the centering mechanism on the nosewheel failed, the nosewheel automatically "blows" to the 90 position. Makes sense, better than having a 45 or anything less for that matter. The tires can melt off and the plane skids away as we just saw.

CNN interviewed a United First Officer too. Don't these companies have non-discloser policies. Every company, in aviation, I have ever worked for forbid us from talking to the press under any circumstances (at least that was my understanding). Does it really matter that their company isn't involved. Are these guys going to be talking to the CP before their next trip?

 

[Dangerkitty]

Christ, is that a joke? "you fly it around and get the fuel where you want" .. sure, assuming the plane remains sufficiently airworthy to burn fuel for a few hours. You gotta be kidding dude.

Since when does flying a perfectly good aircraft around in circles with the gear down make that aircraft unairworthy?

CJS, is that a joke? If not you probably just made it in the top 1000 dumbest comments made on flightinfo. No where near the top of the list mind you but pretty bad nonetheless.

 

[Redmeat]

America West captain just interviewed on FOXNews. He said if the centering mechanism on the nosewheel failed, the nosewheel automatically "blows" to the 90 position. Makes sense, better than having a 45 or anything less for that matter. The tires can melt off and the plane skids away as we just saw.

Why not have it "blow" to the 360' position, with a warning that it is stuck there? In my mind that makes more sense, but I'm just a pilot.

 

[Av8rPHX]

According to one of the FOX reporters... it is a landing gear "stick" (referring to the nose gear strut)

 

[viper548]

According to one of the FOX reporters... it is a landing gear "stick" (referring to the nose gear strut)

OH MY GOD, they sure get creative when they don't know the proper term.

 

[erj-145mech]

Why not have it "blow" to the 360' position, with a warning that it is stuck there? In my mind that makes more sense, but I'm just a pilot.

Because of the rack and pinion steering, it will only go that far if the torque links (scissors) fail or are disconnected.

 

[dal72]

Great work by the pilots...kept it on the centerline the whole way!

 

[FreightNazi]

I heard on TV that the crew did an autolanding, that's why it looked so good.

 

[cj610]

Bravo,Bravo

Jet Blue Crew,
Nice job getting the plane and passengers back down safely.

CJ610