A320 with gear problem over LA

As I write this at 4:50 pm pacific time, there is a Jet
Blue A320 circling with a nose gear problem. It's rotated
90 degrees.

The news is carrying live video of the plane, but details
aren't fixed. It may be landing at Long Beach or LAX. It
was bound for JFK from Burbank so it has several hours of
fuel on board. There's talk about dumping fuel or burning
it off, but again the reports aren't clear.

Jet Blue flight 292.

Oh, and the talking heads are really a laugh. "So I take it
the nose gear on all big jets can turn?" duh....how do you
think they steer?

Brian
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"Skywise" wrote in message
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As I write this at 4:50 pm pacific time, there is a Jet
Blue A320 circling with a nose gear problem. It's rotated
90 degrees.

The news is carrying live video of the plane, but details
aren't fixed. It may be landing at Long Beach or LAX. It
was bound for JFK from Burbank so it has several hours of
fuel on board. There's talk about dumping fuel or burning
it off, but again the reports aren't clear.

Jet Blue flight 292.

Oh, and the talking heads are really a laugh. "So I take it
the nose gear on all big jets can turn?" duh....how do you
think they steer?

Brian

KABC is streaming it to the web live...

Jay Beckman wrote:
KABC is streaming it to the web live...

Thanks for the heads up, this was a great resource at work.

One of the talking heads just said they will foam the runway. I
thought that introduced more problems then it solved for a situation
like this. My dad said he heard someone on Fox say something about a
"soft tail" landing, I wonder if perhaps they meant 'soft field'
landing where they hold the nose off the ground as long as possible.

Ben Hallert
PP-ASEL

"Ben Hallert" wrote in news:1127347757.850538.311870
@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

One of the talking heads just said they will foam the runway. I
thought that introduced more problems then it solved for a situation
like this. My dad said he heard someone on Fox say something about a
"soft tail" landing, I wonder if perhaps they meant 'soft field'
landing where they hold the nose off the ground as long as possible.

Ben Hallert
PP-ASEL

I'm watching ch 7 (KABC) and they're saying 'soft field'.

BTW, it appears that they are circling to burn off fuel as the
A320 cannot dump fuel. But the setting sun will be becoming a
problem as time goes on as the current plan is to land at 25L
at LAX, into the setting sun.

Oh, and the LAPD has just gone to city wide tactical alert. A
bit overkill, I think. It's not a terrorist attack. It's just
a plane making a rougher landing than usual. Unless something
goes drastically wrong, I think they'll pull through just fine.

Brian
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Ben Hallert wrote:
One of the talking heads just said they will foam the runway. I
thought that introduced more problems then it solved for a situation
like this.

I just heard on KABC an interview with an official from the LA fire
department, Jim Wells, who confirmed that they are not foaming the
runways. The radio host must have asked him at least a dozen times, "So
you're not going to foam the runway?" Wells started running low on
patience, "No, we are NOT foaming the runway."

Wells said that they are currently anticipating a landing around
6:05-6:10pm PT. They said they will run firetrucks along with the plane
as it lands and foam the plane if necessary.

Heh...

I cruised some channels...

Some of the "Talking Heads" were having a great time with
this one!

Got so bad on one channel I turned the sound off for a
while....

Dave


On 21 Sep 2005 17:56:02 -0700, "Bucky" wrote:

Ben Hallert wrote:
One of the talking heads just said they will foam the runway. I
thought that introduced more problems then it solved for a situation
like this.

I just heard on KABC an interview with an official from the LA fire
department, Jim Wells, who confirmed that they are not foaming the
runways. The radio host must have asked him at least a dozen times, "So
you're not going to foam the runway?" Wells started running low on
patience, "No, we are NOT foaming the runway."

Wells said that they are currently anticipating a landing around
6:05-6:10pm PT. They said they will run firetrucks along with the plane
as it lands and foam the plane if necessary.

("Dave" wrote)
I cruised some channels...

Some of the "Talking Heads" were having a great time with
this one!

Got so bad on one channel I turned the sound off for a
while....


Dave's posts are all over the place on my screen (OE 6.0). His are the only
ones that display this way, yet when I "Reply Group" they seem to clean
themselves up into a [more readable] fashion (above).

His posts look almost like they're 'Aligned Center.'

Any thoughts? His end? My end?

I'm not getting the sense it's an HTML send problem - it's maybe formatting,
or something else instead. Maybe it's a special thing he has for the Tab
key?

Dave? On one hand you're unique. On the other, I pull my hair out when your
posts show up - and I don't have much hair left. :-)


Montblack

Montblack wrote:
Dave's posts are all over the place on my screen (OE 6.0). His are the only
ones that display this way, yet when I "Reply Group" they seem to clean
themselves up into a [more readable] fashion (above).

It's because he's using a tab at the beginning of each paragraph, like
he's writing a paper or something. =) Your reader is smart enough to
remove the whitespace when quoting it.

Montblack wrote:

Any thoughts? His end? My end?

His end somehow. I get the same thing using Mozilla Thunderbird as a reader.

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