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[airline55]

Yikes!

Jetblue flt. 292 with 145 pax. on board is scheduled to make an emergency landing at LAX in about 90 min. The plane's front gear is bent at a 90 degree angle from the way it should be, and will not retract. The plane dumped some fuel over the pacific ocean but still has more to burn off.

[Atlantic_Air]

it's on CNN right now and its an airbus 320

they're preparing the cabin for emergancy landing right now

scheduled landing in LAX at 825 pacific time

[piercey]

A320s can't dump fuel

I thought this was another blown out case, it's not life threatining, but this could be a w/o

[Atlantic_Air]

they're saying it should be alright, and everyone should get out okay...thats what CNN is saying right now

[airline55]

yeah, I just got home from the Y, and I realized, too late, that a fule dump is not an option. This plane took off from BUR and was originally going to go to Long Beach, but the runway was shorter than that at LAX. They say that the gear should snap away after landing, and that the plane should send out sparks, but noting else.

I guess this has only happaned once before on an A320, an AA flight in '99.

[Syrami764]

What a nice landing. Man pilots with planes that don't have problems don't make landings that nice

[Atlantic_Air]

landed safely, thankfully

[airline55]

yep, its down, although the front wheels are gone.

[piercey]

TOUCHDOWN BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cool:

Great job to the flight crew, both those ladies deserve a bouns

btw, heard rumors that one of the pilots is a director at AMFA, any truth to this?

[a]

That looked dangerous but the sparks were so cool.