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I heard that this was live on CNN and other news channels.
http://edition.cnn.com/video/player/pla ... nding.kabc
Did somebody of you seen this live?

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Dutchy

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I saw it live. The crew did a great job!

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Gravity....its not just a good idea, its the law.

Yeah but lets give the Bendix Corporation a hand for the hefty gear. I know they also made the gear on F-14's. Tree trunks I tell ya. I dont like anything french <img src=newicons/spit.gif border=0 align=middle> but Bendix makes a great set of legs.

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Didn't see it live, but watched the feeds on BBC.

Any of you notice they let the pilot off first.

I wonder if this was so he could change his shorts...

Credit to the crew for handling it well, but I agree with Hawg, I've seen a lot of programmes showing the construction and testing (mostly to distruction) of civilian airliners.

What that front gear went through was just another day on the test rig to it.

You're born, you keep your head down and you die. If you're lucky...

So now Airbuses break on take-off too? lol
I saw it live, right down the middle of the fairway. Jetblue wont even have to replace the engine nacelles <img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

A 9mm MAY expand, but a 45 will NEVER shrink!

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The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.

Easy fix....swap out the nose strut. I would be surprized if it wasnt fixed already.

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Gravity....its not just a good idea, its the law.

Hope they got real good pics of the nose gear before it landed to get SOME idea of what went wrong, cause all the evidence right now is about the size of onion seeds lol

A 9mm MAY expand, but a 45 will NEVER shrink!

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The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.

I would suspect that the centering mechanism is well above the point that was turned to hamburger. There will be enough to tell what happened. I would almost guess they have a trouble shhoting procedure for just such an occurance.

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Gravity....its not just a good idea, its the law.

I saw that live as well. The flight crew did a good job. I was under the impression that there was a procedure to "foam" the runway in that situation. I read an article about a B-58 that lost the tires from its starboard landing gear and they "foamed" the runway to reduce the friction on landing.

Pilot did d helluva job greasing that bird in. Let's see a computer pilot do that!

"Pilots Without Maintainers are Just Pedestrians With Leather Jackets and Cool Sunglasses."

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Those A320s need a damn fuel dump system. Great job by the aircrew and subcontractors, shitty job by the frenchies at Airbus who designed her.

My motto: pacis per vires

Great Job landing that Jet.

I saw a A-10 land like that, the pilot did a "F-15" touch down till the hog was just to a slow roll dropped the nose gear and the "Centering cam" activated and the gear responded.
The nose tire had a "Hell'va" flat spot but it was a pretty good show.

Goose



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saw it live also! great pilot!

here are some jokes

Leno

As you know, NBC has been premiering their new fall lineup this week. So far our highest rated show was "Jet Blue: The Landing”.

I’m sure you all know that amazing story how they circled over the ocean to burn off fuel. They used thousands of gallons of fuel to fly just 18 miles from Burbank to L.A. Here’s the amazing part - they still used less gas than an SUV.

President Bush keeping track of Hurricane Rita hitting his home state of Texas. That’s Bush’s worst nightmare. An electric chair with no power.


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