Here is some serious landing gear about to be stressed:
That's the Antonov 225 Mriya.
Posted on 07/22/2013 3:17:48 PM PDT by SMGFan
Runways at New York's LaGuardia Airport have been closed down after the front landing gear on a Southwest Airlines plane came off
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Uninformed speculation.
This is a mechanical miracle.
*snicker*
Sounds kinda' obscene. Kinda'.....<8^)
Incorrect. Waiting for the investigation to be conducted and not speculating can be done. That option isn't part of the modus operandi for a certain cabal of people.
Here is some serious landing gear about to be stressed:
That's the Antonov 225 Mriya.
Pilot error, right? Man, I just have when the wheels fall off like that.
OK so don’t post threads about aviation near-disasters and nobody will pontificate on them. Problem solved.
I was laying down, thinking through it, the craft would have done 2-3 head-over-heels if that gear failed on landing. No survivors.
Forgive my layman`s terminology, but basically throttle down left to turn left. Throttle down right to turn right. Throttle down both to descend.
Wiki, which I know is suspect, has a pretty good description of what happened.
I subscribe to the NTSB Reporter - they’ll have the conclusion as to what happened.
Ahh, come on. What is FR without a dash of uninformed speculation?
Right? like we’re a bunch of ambulance chasers trying to get rich?
What’s astonishing about this story is the gear had *just* enough integrity to land @~75mph. It was so stressed it collapsed on a 5mph left turn 3 minutes later.
That Antonov, which is used for long haul flights..probably averages 600 or so cycles/year..whereas a puddle jumper like the Southwest Boeing might do 2000+/year.
Remember way back when the top of the Hawaii Air fuselage came off in mid-air...it was metal fatigue...because that plane did nothing but inter-island hops..IIRC it had over 20,000 cycles.
Hey!!!
He only “Loosed One Turn” all right..... Of the wrong bolt.
“As an expert, I can verify that it makes it hard to taxi to the gate.”
An indication that one has forgotten to lower the gear is that it takes full power to taxi.
“... thinking through it, the craft would have done 2-3 head-over-heels if that gear failed on landing.”
No it wouldn’t.
Yes. I would have to say, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 ranks at the top of the list of bizarre airplane accidents.
95 took off. 94 landed safely. Flight Attendant Clarabelle Lansing was the only fatality; she was swept from her fifth-row seat, and her body was never found. She was a veteran flight attendant of 37 years at the time of the accident. Remember to keep seat belts fastened.
Ho Lee Fuk!
A rule-proving exception, I would say. From the Wikipedia:
Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 was a scheduled passenger flight, operated by Southwest Airlines, from McCarran International Airport, in Las Vegas, Nevada, to Salt Lake City International Airport, in Salt Lake City, Utah. On August 11, 2000, Jonathan Burton, a Las Vegas resident, stormed the cockpit door of the Boeing 737 operating the flight, in an apparent case of air rage. The 19-year-old was subdued by eight other passengers with the help of others and with such force that he died of asphyxiation.[1] The death was initially believed to have been a heart attack.
Starting the following year, cockpit doors got beefed up.
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