Someone Earned Their Paycheck Today

[deanw]

https://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/21/airliner....y.ap/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A JetBlue airliner with its front landing gear stuck sideways safely landed Wednesday, balancing on its back wheels as it slowed on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport.

Somebody, buy that flight deck crew a drink or six!

 

[staledonut]

I wonder what they told the passengers while all this went on. I don't think it was: "Our landing gear is eff-up. We're trying to figure out what to do." :shock:

 

[twowheelnut]

I wonder what they told the passengers while all this went on. I don't think it was: "Our landing gear is eff-up. We're trying to figure out what to do." :shock:

That's exactly what they were told. They even let the passengers watch the whole thing unfold on MSNBC.

 

[BobbyBlue]

Not sure about the crew but I bet the passenger compartment seating will need some extra attention...The pilot put that sideways wheel right on the line too ! OUTSTANDING !!!

Bobby

 

[motorgod]

Hats off to the pilots...must have felt like a death row inmate hours before his execution for the passengers....sucks for the guy who confessed to his wife about his affair with the babysitter...

"The anticipation of death is worse than death itself." :assasin:

 

[odot]

They don't call them "scare bus" for nothing.

 

[Woodstock]

....sucks for the guy who confessed to his wife about his affair with the babysitter...

Really??! I hadn't read that. :bigeyes:

 

[Geezer]

....sucks for the guy who confessed to his wife about his affair with the babysitter...

Really??! I hadn't read that. :bigeyes:

I feel like I must be missing out on something. I never had a babysitter that I would want to, um, nevermind.

 

[lawinter]

That was a truely awesome job of piloting.

I hope the drinks were free.

 

[radman]

That was a truely awesome job of piloting.I hope the drinks were free.

They were for the crew. It was having taken advantage of this that he cranked the tiller too far and screwed the whole thing up to begin with.

 

[radman]

OK, I got the real scoop on what really happened. They hit a chipmunk on takeoff, and the nosewheel surrendered. Fact.

 

[deanw]

I feel like I must be missing out on something. I never had a babysitter that I would want to, um, nevermind.

Me either- but some of the child unit's friends... Man, they didn't build teenagers like that 25 years ago. I'd have remembered.

 

[wpbfjr]

getblue always blames it on animals... when they had to abort a landing i was on in burlington vt, the pilot blamed it on a dog on the runway... BS!!! it's a national guard base, too... geeze, placing blame on things that can't defend themselves...

radman    OK, I got the real scoop on what really happened. They hit a chipmunk on takeoff, and the nosewheel surrendered. Fact.

 

[BobbyBlue]

Rad, was it Chip or Dale ?

Bobby

 

[motorgod]

I feel like I must be missing out on something. I never had a babysitter that I would want to, um, nevermind.

Me either- but some of the child unit's friends... Man, they didn't build teenagers like that 25 years ago. I'd have remembered.

Who do you think that is in my avatar?

jfwy......now figure out what "jfwy" means....