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Ian's got footage of the Jet Blue plane landing with its gear stuck.
There's a saying among pilots that any landing you walk away from is a good one. I hope that pilot team gets a few days off to de-stress after that harrowing but successful effort.
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It really was breathtaking how he came in at the slowest possible speed, then kept the nose in the air for as long as possible during the slowdown. Somehow he managed to stay right down the center of the runway even after the front landing gear went down sideways.
Impressive. And yes by all accounts I can find the pilot team is just fine, and grinning ear to ear.
I wouldn't want to be the mechanics who last worked on that gear though. Even if they did everything right, they're going to be in the hot seat for a while. %-)
1. Global warming caused the front landing gear to rotate 90 degrees.
2. All passengers on the airline were minorities.
2B. If streams of white-folk come out of plane blame passengers of being racist.
3. Tax cuts for the rich lowered equipment standards.
3B. Tax cuts for the rich forced Mexican workers from the mechanical repair jobs we all know they love.
3C. Tax cuts for the rich force God to hurt puppies.
3D. Tax cuts for the rich force God to reveal Himself to the world thus violating the Establishment Clause.
Wait... got off topic for a second there. Well, even if it's not factual it's still true!
That's a little over the top. The pilot did what he is trained for and is supposed to do. I would like to think he is the rule and not the exception. Are we so starved for good performance that we are amazed when it happens?
If I was him, I would definitly want to talk to the mechanic. The good news is everything appears to be intact. That means they can figure out why it stuck and if it's a design flaw or the mechanic left a wrench in the gear.
Pilots have recovered from worse than this— I'm thinking of the Gimli Glider. And even the tragedies show stellar training; there was a crash a few years back where the black box determined that if the mechanical failure involved had been only slightly less catastrophic, the pilots would have been able to save the plane... and that particular break was of a control surface.
Anyway. I think I've had worse landings on perfectly good gear. Nary a jitter to be seen. That's good flying.