Nike jet gear not opening..

A gulfstream jet carrying Nike executives has a landing gear problem and is
trying to burn fuel to land at Hillsboro, Oregon airport. On CNN.

"Jacob" wrote in message news:TTogf.22089

A gulfstream jet carrying Nike executives has a landing gear problem and is
trying to burn fuel to land at Hillsboro, Oregon airport. On CNN.

Been listening to PDX ATC and some other freqs. Of course the FireDept is
preparing, airplanes south of Hillsboro are being vectored around. PDX
Approach and Departure has been warning aircraft of two media helicopers
hovering north of the airport at 1,000 ft, and Marine Drive is/was closed.
Awhile ago he reported fuel down to 12,000lbs from 26,000.

-c

"gatt" wrote in message
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"Jacob" wrote in message news:TTogf.22089

A gulfstream jet carrying Nike executives has a landing gear problem and
is trying to burn fuel to land at Hillsboro, Oregon airport. On CNN.

Been listening to PDX ATC and some other freqs. Of course the FireDept is
preparing, airplanes south of Hillsboro are being vectored around. PDX
Approach and Departure has been warning aircraft of two media helicopers
hovering north of the airport at 1,000 ft, and Marine Drive is/was closed.
Awhile ago he reported fuel down to 12,000lbs from 26,000.

-c


Gears down now, hooray for GA! Now the network newsmongers have nothing but
a good ending to report.

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DW

Probably the single most boring piece of news this year. When will
people learn this is BORING?
-Robert

"Jacob" wrote in message
et...
A gulfstream jet carrying Nike executives has a landing gear problem and is
trying to burn fuel to land at Hillsboro, Oregon airport. On CNN.

What is the motive behind CNN's coverage of aviation incidents?

It's almost like they are deliberately trying to give aviation a black eye
at every possible opportunity.

"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote in message
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"gatt" wrote in message
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"Jacob" wrote in message news:TTogf.22089

A gulfstream jet carrying Nike executives has a landing gear problem and
is trying to burn fuel to land at Hillsboro, Oregon airport. On CNN.

Been listening to PDX ATC and some other freqs. Of course the FireDept
is preparing, airplanes south of Hillsboro are being vectored around.
PDX Approach and Departure has been warning aircraft of two media
helicopers hovering north of the airport at 1,000 ft, and Marine Drive
is/was closed. Awhile ago he reported fuel down to 12,000lbs from 26,000.

It's a good thing they don't have UHF scanners to listen to military bases.
This stuff happens all the time there but just doesn't get the press cause
they're not broadcasting the comss on VHF.

"gatt" wrote in message
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"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote in message

Gears down now, hooray for GA! Now the network newsmongers have nothing
but a good ending to report.

Weird. About ten, fifteen minutes ago he did a flyby of Hillsboro Tower
and I heard a woman's voice say "Looks like the left gear is retracted but
the right is still down." Moments later, he landed. You guys might
enjoy looking at his flight track log...note the 80kt ground speed at
10,000 feet, etc.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N225GV/tracklog

Here's his flight track.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N225GV


Wow, he looks drunk. Great plot and I love that website.

Why pick on CNN? Fox and MSNBC were also doing wall-to-wall inanities. I was
especially impressed with the guy on Fox who found two Airworthiness
Directives agains the Gulfstream V...one in 2001, the other in 2004. But
then they said that this was a maiden flight (they apparently either built
the airplane in Oregon instead of Atlanta or brought it across the country
on a flatbed), so how could either AD apply?

Bob Gardner
"John Doe" wrote in message
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"Jacob" wrote in message
et...
A gulfstream jet carrying Nike executives has a landing gear problem and
is trying to burn fuel to land at Hillsboro, Oregon airport. On CNN.

What is the motive behind CNN's coverage of aviation incidents?

It's almost like they are deliberately trying to give aviation a black eye
at every possible opportunity.

"John Doe" wrote in message
news:Y8sgf.14544$om5.3704@dukeread04...

"Jacob" wrote in message
et...
A gulfstream jet carrying Nike executives has a landing gear problem and
is trying to burn fuel to land at Hillsboro, Oregon airport. On CNN.

What is the motive behind CNN's coverage of aviation incidents?

It's almost like they are deliberately trying to give aviation a black eye
at every possible opportunity.

Because to the general public its interesting to watch. The scarier the
news, the more coverage you will see.

They build them in Savannah, GA Bob

Patrick
student SP
aircraft structural mech

"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
. ..
Why pick on CNN? Fox and MSNBC were also doing wall-to-wall inanities. I
was especially impressed with the guy on Fox who found two Airworthiness
Directives agains the Gulfstream V...one in 2001, the other in 2004. But
then they said that this was a maiden flight (they apparently either built
the airplane in Oregon instead of Atlanta or brought it across the country
on a flatbed), so how could either AD apply?

Bob Gardner
"John Doe" wrote in message
news:Y8sgf.14544$om5.3704@dukeread04...

"Jacob" wrote in message
et...
A gulfstream jet carrying Nike executives has a landing gear problem and
is trying to burn fuel to land at Hillsboro, Oregon airport. On CNN.

What is the motive behind CNN's coverage of aviation incidents?

It's almost like they are deliberately trying to give aviation a black
eye at every possible opportunity.