Nothing says welcome to New York City like a wing vomiting sparks as your airplane touches down at night. Just minutes before this video, the pilot radioed the news to JFK's air traffic control: "The right gear is stuck up."
"The other two are down," the Delta Airline Flight 4951 confirmed, cooler than a naked Ice Man playing hockey with polar bears. As he was making his final approach, the tower contacted him again. He confirmed that they couldn't get the gear down, and he received final speed and bearing information as the tower called the emergency ground crews to be ready at Runway 31: "Rescue 1, there are 64 souls on board and 3,000 gallons of fuel."
Thankfully, the pilot made a flawless landing, to much cheering from the relieved 60 passengers coming from Atlanta
Say again. Fortunately it was a good outcome and the pilots did a great job.
Do Canadian airlines follow the same SOPs with respect to the repetitive instructions?
Good job! Although in the attempt to make the story more interesting I think some details are in error. 3000 gallons of fuel is over 20,000 pounds of fuel. The CRJ more likely had 3000 pounds of fuel on board or 440 gallons.
Czar wrote:Say again. Fortunately it was a good outcome and the pilots did a great job.
Do Canadian airlines follow the same SOPs with respect to the repetitive instructions?
At every carrier I have worked for we have to do the repetitive "Emergency, Bend over, Keep your heads down stay down" or something similar. This is repeated until the evacuation command or evac cancellation is given by the flight deck. Of course if the f/d can't be reached or the situation requires we commence our evac commands.
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Let me just say we are done with the carry-on baggage discussion.
My Bad, I just looked at the picture quick and thought it was a 100/200 series which is max 50 seater.
The photo of the plane is the 900 series which I believe is a 90 seat aircraft, unless like our 705's you put a business class section you are down to 75 seats.
Fortunately it was a good outcome and the pilots did a great job.
