Pics of Jet Blues Landing Gear After Emergency Landing.

[Kevin Palmer]

Not sure if these were posted before. I have had them for a bit, just didn't get around to posting them....



For those of you that are not aware of it. These are shots from a Jet Blue Jet that had it's landing gear stuck at 90 degrees and did an emergency landing with the tires sideways.

The pilot did a unreal job keeping this almost right down the center of the runway.....



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[Tom Schindler]

I wonder who made those wheels.





Tom

 

[Kevin Palmer]

Good question. No doubt they are very tuff....



Here is a picture of the steering shaft as well. They say it is not bent at all....



Pretty impressive I think..



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[Tom Schindler]

Coastie,



I spent 9 years in the NDT field with 4 of those years as an FAA repairman. I have inspected many aircraft wheels and aircraft in general.



Now I am in Navy Nuclear. Actually I am kinda glad that I am not doing FAA inspection anymore.





Tom

 

[Kevin Palmer]

Ohhhh, I am sure you had some "interesting " times when doing your inspections.



I just fly on them and I have seen enough to make you wonder sometimes.... LOL

 

[Rich Stern]

Those are gonna need some new bearings.

 

[Bill V]

Needs an EE swaybar.

 

[Jackie Beene]

The day that this happened, I just turned on the TV and CNN was the station that came on. I sat down and started to watch as they were showing live pictures of the pilot bringing the plane in for a landing. He kept the nose up as long as possible as the plane hit the runway and as the front landing gear touched down there was initially a lot of smoke and then flames as the tire went down. Truely an amazing landing I would say!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jackie

 

[Kevin Palmer]

They took all the passengers that would fit into seats and put them behind the rear axle. Moved the heavier luggage into the back. Flew around for 3 1/2 hours burning fuel. Then they went for the landing.



As I said, he did a great job landing the plane.......

 

[mookie]

Coastiejoe,



Did you take these pictures?

If not, where did they come from?

 

[Kevin Palmer]

One of the guys that works with me was on the plane. Due to the nature of our job, he was able to stay near the jet after it landed. I am told these pics came from the Joint Task Force guys that were there and they e-mailed them to my co-worker. All the normal passengers had de-planed and were in the terminal at the time of the pics.

 

[Dale Carlson]

I heard that the passengers were watching all this transpire on TV while it was happening, too. I worked on aircraft for 26 years - I'd have been too freaked out to see that happening on the screen while I was in the plane.



I'm thinking that a couple of more inches taken off of those wheels and that would have been all she wrote. If that strut would have hit the ramp, whooooo man....

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Kefguy, what do you think would have happened if the plan continued a few hundred more yards, a few more inches were take off the wheels and the strut started to hit the runway?



a) The strut too would have ground down against the runway as the plane continued to slow



b) The strut would not have ground against the runway but instead skided on it as the plane continued to slow



c) The strut would chisel into the runway stopping the plane faster



d) The strut would chisel into the runway causing the plane to cartwheel





You made the statement it would have been "all she wrote". As I see it, those are you choices above...were you thinking D or some variant would happen?

 

[WXMotorSports DecalsPartsAccs]

I'm confused....How is it possible the passengers, that were on the plane, were watching live footage of the landing? :wacko:

 

[Wes Davis]

JetBlue offers free tv on every seat back.

 

[Dominoelover thegamenotthepizza]

Here is a link to the video of the landing.

 

[Travis Munday]

In the case of planes, the feeds to the TVs isn't "live" as it happens. If there is any kind of news that involves planes, espically failures and attacks on/around planes or airports, the feeds are cut going to the planes so the people who are on the planes have no idea what's happening. Same thing for terminal TVs. Club TVs at the airport are different, but the public TVs have thier footage cut. The eople on the plane wouldn't have seen themselves on TV or anything.

 

[WXMotorSports DecalsPartsAccs]

Those monitors are playing pre-recorded (VHS/DVD's, etc) shows they are not live broadcasted or receiving a station signal like what you get at home. Airlines do not allow the use of Cell Phones, TVs or any device that receives a signal during flight/landing as they claim it may interfer with the GPS/Instruments on board.



Therefore, it would be impossible for the passengers to be viewing the actual landing of the plane that they were on during an emergency landing.

 

[Kevin Palmer]

Jet Blue does in fact have satellite TV and it is live in many cases. In this case, most switched to CNN and were in fact watching all the way up to their land the plane circling and circling. They shut down the system just before touchdown as they always do before a landing.



Every seat has a screen. It is free and has about 20 channels...

 

[mookie]

Coastiejoe,



The first two pictures were taken in Continental Airline's hanger at LAX (that's where I work). They were able to put one wheel and tire assy on and tow into the hanger bay where they replaced the nose gear.



SST and Tiger,



Jet Blue does offer satellite TV and the passengers were able to watch the news coverage (CNN) of their situation on their monitors.



Jet Blue's policy is to turn off the feed about 10 minutes before landing and it was done on that flight, too.



EDIT: I was typing while Coastiejoe was posting.