More Jet Blue Photos

Jay Beckman wrote:

I'm with Kev on this one...

Kev is right. After posting, I located some better shots of the 9/21 plane.
Definitely a different case.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

Jay Honeck wrote:

Interesting -- I've been "had"!

Looks like ABC news fell for it too.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

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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

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

Interesting -- I've been "had"! Oh well, they're worth exactly what I
(and you) paid for them...

Not to worry. Apparently a lot of people were had by those photos.

After a bit of research, the winter pics are apparently from a Jet Blue
flight from Buffalo to JFK on Nov 1, 2002. On Feb 16, 1999, an
America West A320 did the same thing at Columbus, Ohio. There's been
about seven similar Airbus landing gear incidents.

Cheers, Kevin

("Kev" wrote)
After a bit of research, the winter pics are apparently from a Jet Blue
flight from Buffalo to JFK on Nov 1, 2002. On Feb 16, 1999, an
America West A320 did the same thing at Columbus, Ohio. There's been
about seven similar Airbus landing gear incidents.


Seven? I would think that would rate a sim training program being written
for the A320 that would address this exact scenario ...give or take icy
conditions.

And the FAA's reaction to seven similar incidents? This is kind of what they
do.


Montblack

You could take the CBS News tack and say they're forged, but accurate...


Interesting -- I've been "had"! Oh well, they're worth exactly what I
(and you) paid for them...

"George Patterson" wrote in message news:8LS0f.2533$ar6.1679@trndny01...
Jay Honeck wrote:

Interesting -- I've been "had"!

Looks like ABC news fell for it too.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.


All these news guys and not checking their sources, how 21st century!