Man of Harveys
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I assumed "the man upstairs" referred to Gatwick tower...
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bravohotelalpha
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Normal landing at Gatwick. There's nearly always a cross wind which requires a slide landing. He did well but believe me it was a landing he trained for. That's why they earn good money most of the time they are spending their time filling out their expense forms. However when required they earn their dosh.
He seemed to stop very quickly.
daveinprague
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Love the Argus summary
'Reports a plane, flight VS43 tried to carry out an emergency landing near Gatwick Airport.'
Would have thought at the airport would have been preferable
'Reports a plane, flight VS43 tried to carry out an emergency landing near Gatwick Airport.'
Would have thought at the airport would have been preferable
Yes there's settings for auto braking. If I remember rightly 1 to 6 on B747's. Depending on the length of runway the number is set. For a standard length runway 3 or 4 is set thus reducing wear on tyres and brakes.
He would of set it to 1 so mad braking applied so less chance of the wing dipping. This would have increased the chance of brake fire but given the on hand fire services not a problem.
Hopefully answered that ok bruv.
Norman Potting
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This must have been the plane that passed far lower than they usually do over my house at around 14:00 this afternoon just as I was going out. Got a good view of it, I am used to them being fairly low but never low enought to make out the airline details clearly! All's well that ends well as they say.
bravohotelalpha
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No - departures + arrivals now possible once again
All is now clear!
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Standard practice after such a landing would be to change all the tyres and brakes. . There's heat monitoring of the brakes.
Auto braking is standard procedure on all landing. It has nothing to do as such with auto land systems.
My guess to the problem was a tyre disintegrated on take off. The debris fouled the sides of the bay or undercarriage doors thus jamming it against the structure. It happened before on one I worked on. As I mentioned before the wing undercarriage on the B747 twists as it enters the bay. This is unusual but means it's susceptible to problems. I took me ages to suss out how it even gets in the space. Very clever design.maybe!!
2-0 yes
Standard practice after such a landing would be to change all the tyres and brakes. . There's heat monitoring of the brakes.
Auto braking is standard procedure on all landing. It has nothing to do as such with auto land systems.
My guess to the problem was a tyre disintegrated on take off. The debris fouled the sides of the bay or undercarriage doors thus jamming it against the structure. It happened before on one I worked on. As I mentioned before the wing undercarriage on the B747 twists as it enters the bay. This is unusual but means it's susceptible to problems. I took me ages to suss out how it even gets in the space. Very clever design.maybe!!
2-0 yes
beorhthelm
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surprised they kept it there for so long, would have thought they could "shunt" it off on to the side field for inspection.
No before it moved it needed to be levelled by placing a Jack under the wing as it was basically listing. The steps wouldn't reach the doors. Added to which a planes centre of gravity is quite balanced. Many bodies moving about could literally knock it of balance given one of the wing(outer) undercarriages was up
Crennis
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Probably not, the airport can't operate until their on-site fire service are readily available again, guessing they would still have been fully taken up with the evacuation and ensuring the safe removal of the aircraft.
Shropshire Seagull
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As many have already said, really pleased this has ended without major incident / injury.
Now, here's the dilemma, those 440 odd passengers were all expecting to be in Vegas tomorrow.
How many of them will have been put off flying and will now not travel when virgin call them up to board the replacement flight?
Now, here's the dilemma, those 440 odd passengers were all expecting to be in Vegas tomorrow.
How many of them will have been put off flying and will now not travel when virgin call them up to board the replacement flight?
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Deleted member 22389
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Felt for those people yesterday, must have been bloody terrifying up there, so glad they touched down safely. It's only when I went out of my door I saw the Virgin Plane circling did I realise the extent of the issue. Then I put Sky News on.
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I'm OK flying but I always have the doubt in my mind, what if. Mechanical things do go wrong from time to time and obviously working in Engineering you tend to look at how everything is assembled outside your window.
If it was me I wouldn't be getting on another flight after that experience.