A Mega Airlines plane’s left main gear collapsed on landing at Wau Airport, South Sudan, on April 5th.
The incident happened when the plane was performing a cargo flight from Kuajok, South Sudan.
No injuries were reported.
A Mega Airlines plane’s left main gear collapsed on landing at Wau Airport, South Sudan, on April 5th.
The incident happened when the plane was performing a cargo flight from Kuajok, South Sudan.
No injuries were reported.
Skywest Airlines flight OO-3623/ DL-3623 made an emergency landing at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, Kansas, on July 15th.
The Canadair CRJ-200 en route to Minnesota was climbing out when the crew declared an emergency after losing the hydraulic fluid in its landing gear.
The plane landed safely.
All 43 people aboard remained unhurt.
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What: Skywest Canadair CRJ-200 en route from Omaha,NE to Milwaukee,WI
Where: Milwaukee
When: Sep 28th 2010
Who: 36 passengers and 3 crew
Why: Averting their first approach to Milwaukee, the crew received a gear up message. They performed a flyby confirming the situation, attempted several times to get the gear down, and finally touched down with the left gear up.
The plane slid down the runway on its nose gear, right hand main gear and left wing, and although I don’t think anyone recorded the sparks as in the JFK landing with the flight attendant’s relentless “stay down” directive, the landing was no doubt just as dramatic and successful.
Passengers disembarked through the main door.
CBS news quoted a passenger who said he heard the crew attempt to put down the gear 4 or 5 times. Bombardier spokesman Marc Duchesne said, “The aircraft has logged more than 27 million flight hours and more than 22 million takeoff and landing cycles, so these are very good and reliable aircraft.” The plane is designed for short hops.
Fortunately, the crew flying these aircraft seem to be made of more heroic and substantial backbone than the landing gear.
An Avianca Airlines Fokker 100 jet made an emergency landing in the Brazilian capital city Brasilia, as its front landing gear stopped working.
The plane, carrying 49 passengers, was en route from Petrolina to Brasilia airport on March 28. The pilot requested emergency landing protocol as his attempt to lower the plane’s front landing gear failed.
Media sources report that the pilot kept flying the passenger jet around the city, in order to shed the weight of extra fuel. The plane then safely landed on its rear wheels, while the fire crew foamed it to avoid a friction fire when its nose touched the runway.
All the passengers and crew members were evacuated safely.