Midwest makes an emergency landing in Beantown

[73-Driver]

Live coverage on CNN and FOX. Looks like some kind of landing gear problem, no one's hurt thank god!

 

[737 Pylt]

Live coverage on CNN and FOX. Looks like some kind of landing gear problem, no one's hurt thank god!

Plane makes emergency landing in Boston

Midwest Airlines Flight 210 was headed to Milwaukee


Tuesday, December 20, 2005; Posted: 10:39 p.m. EST (03:39 GMT)
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- A jetliner with a landing gear problem touched down safely at Logan International late Tuesday after circling the airport for about two hours.
Sparks could be seen coming from an area near the right landing gear as the aircraft landed just before 10 p.m., but the plane rolled to a stop without incident.
Midwest Airlines Flight 210 had 86 passengers and four crew members on board. Passengers remained on the jet as it was towed to a gate.
Air traffic controllers reported seeing sparks at the rear of the plane after it took off at about 8:15 p.m., bound for Milwaukee, said Laura Brown, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration. (Watch as the plane lands -- 5:00)
Carol Skornicka, a spokeswoman for Milwaukee-based Midwest, said the pilot noticed a problem with the right landing gear shortly after takeoff.
She said the plane spent a couple of hours circling to burn off excess fuel.
Midwest plans to investigate, she said, adding that federal authorities are also expected to investigate.
The 717 was known as the MD-95 before Boeing acquired it in the 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas. Boeing is ending production of the short-haul jet, its smallest passenger plane with capacity for 100, next year.
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

 

[FN FAL]

sounds like there was a bright spark problem, where's avbug when you need him/her.

 

[COpilot]

If you missed the T.V. coverage don't worry. "Sacry Mary" had everyone well informed. LOL!

My gosh, who in there right mind would use this women?

 

[180ToTheMarker]

Yea, that bitch comes out of the woodwork every time somebody farts on an airplane.

 

[HalinTexas]

Scarry Mary was on FOX shortly after the Chalk's crash. Almost insistant it was the PT-6's. She was working on cases against P/W because of teh PT-6's. News this morning is reporting that there were cracks in the wing. I"m assuming they were pre-existing.

The reason they use Miss Schiavo (no relation, but equally brain dead) is that she talks a lot, mostly about herself, so that the commentators don't have to. She uses aviation terms like wing, turbo-prop, NTSB, crash investigator, lift, even if she uses them incorrectly.

 

[73-Driver]

sounds like there was a bright spark problem, where's avbug when you need him/her.

Dear FN,


Happy Holidays!

 

[Huck]

I will never, NEVER forgive Sciavo for her 'list of planes not to fly on' back in the nineties.

She'd list the Brasilia, let's say, because of the prop governor crashes, even though those problems had been rectified! Or the ATR for icing problems, even though the boots had been enlarged and procedures totally changed....

That list scared my wife - I was on ATR's at the time - for no good reason. Sciavo's a worthless bag of gas.

 

[FedEx1]

Mary's an idiot. Read her book from the 90's if you want a good laugh

She was on MSNBC saying the part that was broken on the Midwest 717 might be from the same manufacturer of the Nike Corp jet that had a similar problem a few weeks ago. She mentioned the Nike flight a million times!

She was probably always afraid to fly, and decided to jusify her fears by all the stuff she has said about airplanes.

And the reporter was saying the flight had been "dumping fuel" for an hour. Hmmm... try burning it off, idiots.....

 

[xjlifer]

They were dumping it.......in the engines.

Is she the same idiot that said if you fly on a turbo prop at night or bad weather you were almost sure to die?