AA155 LHR BOS emergency landing coming up in DUB
Aug 3, 2012, 2:57 pm
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AA155 LHR BOS emergency landing coming up in DUB
http://www.liveatc.net/flisten.php?m...idw2&icao=eidw
ATC just mentioned crash landing, don't know what those implications are. Landing on DUB runway 16 and I think I heard they'd be parking on the runway
Hope all are safe
ATC just mentioned crash landing, don't know what those implications are. Landing on DUB runway 16 and I think I heard they'd be parking on the runway
Hope all are safe
Aug 3, 2012, 3:00 pm
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I'm sure you'll keep us updated if you hear anything else? Hope everything is okay.
Aug 3, 2012, 3:04 pm
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Fire crew is standing by.
Aug 3, 2012, 3:08 pm
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aa.com shows the diversion to DUB and an ETD from DUB for BOS.
Aug 3, 2012, 3:09 pm
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They're safely on the ground, sounds like everything is reasonably OK, although they have no nosewheel steering.
Aug 3, 2012, 3:11 pm
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Well it has landed. I don't know what is happening now or what happened with the landing
Aug 3, 2012, 3:14 pm
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They'd requested a tow off the runway so I would imagine some delays coming up at DUB.
Glad (as a nervous flyer myself) that even when an emergency is declared all turns out well
Aug 3, 2012, 3:15 pm
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Perhaps the gear wouldn't retract (due to the nosewheel being stuck in a cockeyed position), hence the fuel burn rate would've been too high to make it to BOS?
Aug 3, 2012, 3:17 pm
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I suspect that's just a symptom rather than a cause. And yes, they're holding arriving traffic, and at least one plane has diverted to BFS already.
Aug 3, 2012, 3:19 pm
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Aug 3, 2012, 3:27 pm
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Pure speculation, but perhaps initial calculations showed they could make it to BOS, then in the actual conditions (winds, etc) it was evident they wouldn't. Or as marlborobell suggests, maybe it's a symptom of a more serious problem.
Aug 3, 2012, 3:28 pm
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Aug 3, 2012, 3:31 pm
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According to Flightradar chatter it is a left hand hydraulic problem. Perhaps if that alarm rings then you are guaranteed no nosewheel steering.
Can understand how that might make itself known over the Atlantic
Alls well that ends well but I presume it is not that B752 that is scheduled to leave again at 23h00
Can understand how that might make itself known over the Atlantic
Alls well that ends well but I presume it is not that B752 that is scheduled to leave again at 23h00
Aug 3, 2012, 3:33 pm
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No pilot would attempt to cross the Altantic with gear that would not retract.