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Old October 5th 05, 05:45 PM
Ron Garret
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In article IcI0f.474$026.37@trndny09,
George Patterson wrote:

Kev wrote:

Uh, not quite.


Yes, quite.

Most, if not all, of those pictures are from a different, though very
similar, Jet Blue incident.


All photos are from the September 21 landing at LAX.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J13564CEB

Note the water next to the runway, the ice on the runway, and the man
in cold-weather gear... at LAX??? Nope. Not to mention that the name
of the plane is different from the LAX incident.


That's foam on the runway, and the man is wearing a light windbreaker with a
hood. It's typically windy at airports. Can't say that I noticed the name on
the 9/21 plane, but the number on the gear door is the same.


No, it isn't. The 9/21 plane was number 536 and was called Canyon Blue.
Some of the images in question are of this plane, but others (including
the one with the man in the windbreaker) are of plane #503, apparently
named Bluebird.

Plane 503 has its gear doors fully open. Plane 536 landed with the main
nose gear door closed.

Plane 536 only has one tire left at the end. Plane 503 has both tires.

If you look closely you can also see that plane 503 didn't grind the
wheels down quite as far as 536. 536 went past the hub; 503 didn't.

Finally, plane 503 pretty clearly has a chunk of ice, not foam, up
against the wheel.

rg