crippled plane emergency landing at LAX rightnow

[cman]

go to any news channel in the USA, ccn or even bbc has it.
front landing gear is fucked so the plane is landing on its belly.
should be interesting.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050922/ap_on_re_us/airliner_emergency

edit. sounds like they are just flying around in order to burn off as much fuel as possible. front landing gear is sideways, rear is fine.
hundreds of fire fighters and ems on standby beside the runway.

[Xtrema]

Watching CNN on the side for the last 30 mins.........

Side story, tornado hitting minniapolis (sp?). US is sure being hit hard right now.

[LudeRoca]

im watching this shit at work right now. We'll see what happens!

[finboy]

banana's son

[FiveFreshFish]

Watched the story on Global.

Not once was it asked HOW the nose gear got fucked.

[cman]

landing now

[finboy]

well, it landed w/o incident atleast :)

[cman]

wow what skill by the pilot!:clap:

[Zero102]

They made it down without serious problems. That's pretty impressive!!:clap:

[heinz256]

ya kudos to the pilot :thumbsup:

[streetarab]

:werd: saw that one live

what i didnt catch was apparently they were doin a weather report on cnn and some dog got owned by a truck on the highway in the backround, i didnt catch it but my father did

and thats a crazy storm up north, your south i guess
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USLocalWide.asp?seg=LocalWeather&loc=kmsp&prodgrp=RadarImagery&product=RadarLoop&prodnav=none&pid=none

[Xtrema]

Impressive. He stay on back wheels long enough so front won't grind as much.

Still, feel pretty anxious seeing that fire ball at the gear, plowing down the runway. One tough metal column.

[l8braker]

holy shit!!!!!

that pilot is bad ass!!!!!!!! :eek:

[BerserkerCatSplat]

That was amazing how straight the pilot kept the plane. Can you imagine how scary it would have been to have to land that thing? :eek:

[Aleks]

Pilot made a perfect landing. However they practice this kind of thing in simulators all the time so they are pretty used to it. No pilot they talked to on CNN was expecting anything bad to come out of this since they are extremely well trained! :thumbsup:

[l8braker]

^^ yeah and the fact that the plane all had all its tvs on and tuned into cnn at the time!!!!!! too crazy

[Sharpie]

Probally a flight attendant that landed the plane.:rofl:

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by Sharpie
Probally a flight attendant that landed the plane.:rofl:

Then again, it is in Hollywood. :rofl:

[buh_buh]

holy crap.
I was kinda hoping to see something more spectacular haha, but glad to see no one got hurt.

[TheBenzo]

Originally posted by streetarab
:werd: saw that one live

what i didnt catch was apparently they were doin a weather report on cnn and some dog got owned by a truck on the highway in the backround, i didnt catch it but my father did


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[rice_eater]

they test planes for stuff like this and grind the shit out of them in testing before putting them out... its great that they made it but lets not forget that the pilot had huge help from the computers keeping the plane stable... REmember, pilots dont really fly anymore, they jsut program the destination and the plane takes off and lands on its own. all they do is increase the engine power at liftoff and decrease to min on landing :thumbsup:

[streetarab]

whatever you say :thumbsup: