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December 20th, 2005, 21:18
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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|  Midwest Airlines plane has landing gear problem The news channels are reporting that a Midwest Air plane has a problem with its right landing gear. Sparks were seen shortly after takeoff. It will land at approximately 9:25 Eastern time. I'm surprised no one has posted about this yet. First it happened with a JetBlue plane, then with an Air India plane last night, now this... |
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December 20th, 2005, 21:23
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: USA
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| At 21:20 EST.... CNN anchorwoman: Jim, what is the most difficult thing for the pilots to do right now? Jim (some airline pilot): Well, they need to try to get the gear down. |
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December 20th, 2005, 21:55
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2005 Location: DFW
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| The planes landed safely. From the news cameras, it looks like a popped tire to me. |
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December 20th, 2005, 22:00
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| Banned Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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| Does anyone else think that the big CNN banner of "PLANE LANDS SAFELY" is rather funny? |
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December 20th, 2005, 22:32
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: AZO
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| 3rd aviation related news on TV in last 24 hours. mmm....
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December 20th, 2005, 22:49
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Spring, TX
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| listen about halfway through, and you can hear midwest210 getting cleared to land and tower asking about the gear. took 33r with wind from 300. makes sense. http://www.liveatc.net/.archive/kbos...20-05-2130.mp3
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December 20th, 2005, 23:59
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Park City, UT
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  | This has gotta be a communist plot
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December 21st, 2005, 09:43
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December 21st, 2005, 10:07
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 But, alas, Midwest is Blue & White, so we are safe...
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December 21st, 2005, 15:19
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| Hmmm... I'm wondering if this was the same Midwest 717 that had the landing gear problem a few weeks ago in Dallas?
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