[JEP]

Originally Posted by triple7

Had my first emergency last night coming out of Newark. As we raised the gear we heard a strange "clunk" from underneath. Within 3 seconds we got an alert message for Hydr 1 low quantity. Those familiar with the ERJ know that the Hydr sys 1 controls steering, gear, inboard spoilers, and outboard brakes. AS well as one of the rudder and aileron systems. Anyhow, what happened was we lost a return line from the gear so as the gear raised all the hydr fluid was pumped overboard. We had a stinkin mess of hydr fluid underneath when we landed. The accumulator helped us raise the gear and kept the system with pressure, but that was gone as soon as we lowered the gear. We declared the emerg, got vectors and some time to run the QRH. Then when it was time we came in and landed 22L. as soon as we touched down the Eicas lit up like a xmas tree with failures of the spoilers, ail and rudder sys 1, thrust reversers, and of course no steering. We only had half the brakes too. The cap got her clear and we were tugged in. What a night. And to top it off we still had to go to destination in a new airplane and shoot an approach to 300 ovc with a nasty xwind........here is the audio. you can hear me about a 1/4 the way....asking to return to the airport.

http://archive-server.liveatc.net/ke...2007-0130Z.mp3

6:13 into the audio. audio is a bit sketchy as it seems to be picking up a couple of different feeds. You can clearly hear the request though.

Great Job!!