Posted on 04/19/2025 8:21:52 PM PDT by george76
Airbus A321
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Not Boeing this time!
Fear for their lives....oh the horror.
Well, it just lost one wheel. I think they have 2 on the front gear. But it sounds like the Delta pilot that forgot to flair and ended up upside down.
So the Spirit Airways passengers stopped beating each other long enough to focus on the wheel falling off? Amazing.
Chaos in the cockpit sounds like Endeavor airlines — the DEI outfit that flipped the plane upside down in Canada.
Oh, it IS DEI. They advertise as having no male pilots, by company directive.
With two lonely wheels, and a plane in the field.
AA landing is almost always a grease job or a botched embarrassment beginning 3 miles outside the marker.
At three miles outside the marker the air speed, altitude and power settings should be at the exact appropriate settings. All check lists should be complete and set as required.
At the marker the crew needs only to drop the gear and make minor adjustments to the power setting to compensate for changes in the wind at the lower altitudes.
Constant practice at this, even in the very best VFR conditions, will make approaches to minimums a piece of cake.
The alternative is pieces of aluminum and they do not digest well.
It landed wheels down, then rolled on to the top. You can literally see it in the video.
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