Plane with a bad landing gear just made an emergency landing. Live video!

[ThePresence]

Down safely!

 

[JDrake]

Originally posted by: joedrake
NOOOOO it froze

NM it jumped back
A+ :thumbsup: pilots

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Dang, what a letdown. Nobody died.

f u too buddy!

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
OMG WTF stream stopped

Yeah, mine did too. WTF. Back now I guess.

 

[CellarDoor]

Not surprised to see it go perfectly. There was that landing a few months back where the front tire was twisted 90 degrees and they still managed to land almost perfectly.

 

[ThePresence]

I think they intentionally stopped the stream in case there was a tragic ending.

 

[Cattlegod]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
OMG WTF stream stopped

Yeah, mine did too. WTF. Back now I guess.

lol, i could see the plane and the ground at the same time. they it just stopped haha.

just caught the replay though

 

[SaltBoy]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Dang, what a letdown. Nobody died.

f u too buddy!

Excuse me... let's try that again.

<sarcasm>Dang, what a letdown. Nobody died. </sarcasm>

 

[cavemanmoron]

Plane with blown tires lands safely at Bush Intercontinental Airport

 

[FoBoT]

they dump fuel all the time, how far is it to the ocean ? 40 miles?

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
they dump fuel all the time, how far is it to the ocean ? 40 miles?

I find this VERY hard to believe.

 

[JDrake]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy

Originally posted by: UNCjigga

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Dang, what a letdown. Nobody died.

f u too buddy!

Excuse me... let's try that again.

<sarcasm>Dang, what a letdown. Nobody died. </sarcasm>

woulda been pretty cool, tho

 

[Manuwell]

Why do planes still need tires ?

 

[JDrake]

Originally posted by: Manuwell
Why do planes still need tires ?

Seriously...
and those wings must add a lot of weight, too!

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Crusty

Originally posted by: FoBoT
they dump fuel all the time, how far is it to the ocean ? 40 miles?

I find this VERY hard to believe.

http://www.slate.com/id/2126743/

Many commercial airplanes (and almost all military aircraft) have a built-in fuel-dumping system that uses pumps and valves to release fuel from the wings and sometimes the tail. These systems, controlled from the cockpit, typically allow a plane to eject several thousand pounds of fuel per minute; a standard fuel-dumping operation could take around 10 minutes to complete.

Dumped fuel flows out behind the plane like a contrail, and then most of it evaporates before it reaches the ground. Exactly how much of the fuel plume evaporates depends on several factors, including altitude, air temperature, and dumping pressure. In general, at least half of the fuel?and sometimes more than 99 percent of it?will dissipate. Fuel dumped from a high altitude in warm weather disperses best.

The Federal Aviation Administration's dumping policy prescribes a minimum altitude for dumping, and a five-mile separation from other aircraft. Air traffic controllers try to direct dumping planes away from populated areas and toward large bodies of water. (Experts guess that more than 15 million pounds of jettisoned fuel rained down into the oceans from civilian and military aircraft during the 1990s.)