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United SkyWest Jet Makes Emergency Landing At LAX
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A jetliner landed safely Monday at Los Angeles International Airport after a landing gear collapsed. The left wing of the United SkyWest regional jet scraped the ground on Runway 24 Left around 8:23 a.m. after its left landing gear failed to fully deploy, according the FAA. (losangeles.cbslocal.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
It was a belly landing, a very good one. The term was used on CBS twice to describe the event. BTW, I wrote the headline on the article I submitted to FA.
Great job by the pilots! Of course it helped that they were flying the very ROBUST and forgiving BOMBARDIER CRJ! Had this occurred with another air-frame I am not so sure that the outcome would have been so positive.
Whatever happened to "foaming" the runway?
FD elected not to, primarily on account of one gear not down and so pilot could maintain control.
Thanks!
The pilots did a great job on this flight and should be commended.... However, knowing the CRJ200 as well as I do, and even writing a training course for the company that I worked for at the time and was required course with test for all mechanics in the company... This is a complicated gear system, but by the same token it is a very reliable gear. There are no gear doors on that plane (CRJ 200). Only thing that I can think of is something failed in the Manual Extension (maybe a cable broke). When the gear is up, the Hydraulics to the actuator is pressurized and the gear is basically just hanging onto the hook.. you pull the cable, and the hook releases the gear and it falls down... Very simple system.
I didn't run it down but CBS said it was a 700
They are totally incorrect...
1 picture shows no leading edge devices (FOX NEWS), and CBS below shows CRJ 200 engines (very distinctive). Note the tail number as being N932SW and per the FAA the aircraft is a CL-600-2B19 wich is a CRJ-200. (http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?omni=Home-N-Number&nNumberTxt=932SW)
The CRJ-700 has much different engines, leading edge slats, and is a model CL-600-2C10
1 picture shows no leading edge devices (FOX NEWS), and CBS below shows CRJ 200 engines (very distinctive). Note the tail number as being N932SW and per the FAA the aircraft is a CL-600-2B19 wich is a CRJ-200. (http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?omni=Home-N-Number&nNumberTxt=932SW)
The CRJ-700 has much different engines, leading edge slats, and is a model CL-600-2C10