American Airlines Flight circling LAX with Blown Tire

Fox News Channel ^ | 9/2/2008

[sportutegrl]

Fox says there is an AA plane circling LAX with a blown tire, burning fuel before it attempts an emergency landing.

[Rightly Biased]

BTTT

[sportutegrl]

Fox is showing an AA plane landing right now.

[LdSentinal]

Prayers

[Rightly Biased]

well?

[JennysCool]

AA planes land in 12 steps.

[Onerom99]

That wasn’t it.. Announcers getting excited everytime a plane is about to land.

[Domandred]

Get everyone there so when the plane doesn’t crash in a huge fireball and instead simply lands fine (albeit rough) the news guys can all look dejected on national TV!

[guido911]

Bristol Palin’s fault

[KarlInOhio]

American Airlines Flight circling LAX with Blown Tire

Did they borrow some Goodyear tires from NASCAR? And another yellow flag lap in the American Airlines 500.

[misterrob]

That’s too funny....

[Blueflag]

Not sure a blown tire constitutes a DECLARED emergency landing. If your gear won’t deploy, then sure, THAT’s an emergency.

Not sure about AA procedures by any means.

[Travis T. OJustice]

They’d only show commercials anyway during the news, especially as the plane actually trouched down.

Cue the duck.

[NormsRevenge]

Nice landing!

[stlnative]

Landed ok - some rubber did come off the blown tire during landing.

[keepitreal]

Beautiful landing.

[BubbaJunebug]

Oh my it landed safely....will wonders never cease..yawn

[sportutegrl]

Didn’t even pull to the side.

[norraad]

I got even money on “outsourced” maint., any takers?

[Beowulf9]

Didn’t they just have a plane have an emergency landing with a blown tire only within the past month or so?

and wasn’t it also an American Airlines plane?

[Canedawg]

I like happy endings.

[NormsRevenge]

Nope.

Obama is his co-pilot, I reckun. ;-)

[Emperor Palpatine]

They must not build planes as good as they used to.

B-17's coming back all shot up routinely made safe wheels-up belly landings.

[NormsRevenge]

Me too!

Clean seat covers for everybody !!! :-)

[keepitreal]

These are the days that the passengers are glad their pilots are well-trained! I’m always sickened when I hear pilots are just glorified bus drivers.

[dfwgator]

This is why pilots deserve every penny they get.

[cmsgop]

[keepitreal]

Amen to that!

[sportutegrl]

It had just left LAX on its way to Canada. There must have been an ‘emergency’ for it to return to LAX and land.

[BubbaJunebug]

quote: These are the days that the passengers are glad their pilots are well-trained! I’m always sickened when I hear pilots are just glorified bus drivers.

The’re glorified bus drivers...now go throw up...LOL..not here though please :)

[sportutegrl]

Maybe Firestone tires?

[NCC-1701]

Being stuck in the ball turret during a landing like that would put a serious crimp in your day.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Interesting flightplan.

Heard one last night on my scanner. Delta 1064 had a 27 year old women who had heart problems and the flight(SLC-BOS)was diverted to DTW. He was hauling it to get to DTW.

[RobRoy]

>>Landed ok - some rubber did come off the blown tire during landing.<<

That’s nothin’. A whole wheel came of a tractor trailer right in front of me one time. :)

[NormsRevenge]

Agreed, a big hat tip for keeping their cool. They don’t get in them seats by being cute alone. ;-)

[RobRoy]

>>Landed ok - some rubber did come off the blown tire during landing.<<

That’s nothin’. A whole wheel came of a tractor trailer right in front of me one time. :)

[keepitreal]

I’m always happy to get on a flight where I see a middle-aged or man with a military hair cut (that he still wears out of habit)! AA has a lot of former military and those guys really know how to keep their cool.

[tatsinfla]

USING RETREADS...COST CUTTING MEASURE....

[Emperor Palpatine]

Well, my dad flew one during the war and he tells me the Sperry ball retracted up into the belly of the plane.

Assuming your hydraulic system still worked.

[mrmargaritaville]

When asked to explain how this could happen AA maintenance technician Floyd R Turbo said:

“well we was just following barack obama’s advice about properly inflating your tires in order to get better fuel milage, with fuel costs being what they are I figured that I’d help my airline get better fuel economy and if 44 psi is good 88 psi must be twice as good”

[Spunky]

Prayers going out for all those on that airplane.

[wita]

Good one. Reminds me of some of my missions on Microsoft Flight sim.

[dfwgator]

"I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you."

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I can here Geraldo screaming from here.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

here=hear

[sportutegrl]

Not if you could draw a magic cartoon tire that would come down and let the plane land safely.

[DelphiUser]

Bristol Palin’s fault

LOL!

[NCC-1701]

I know of which you speak.

[toldyou]

“That’s nothin’. A whole wheel came of a tractor trailer right in front of me one time. :)”

LOL!

I find the MSM overreacting to all plane incidents. Geez, 43,000+ die on our highways every year, yet they make people fearful to fly.

I remember a captain, making the announcement after landing, saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, now the most dangerous part of your trip is about to take place, so please drive carefully.”

[mattdono]

Just damn. I was on an AA flight into LAX last week.

Glad to hear that the plane landed safely. If that would have happened last week, my wife would have had a heart attack.