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Apr 17, 2012, 2:42 am

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moondog

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Originally Posted by Bear4Asian

I remember flying into Dallas (I think) on a wide body jet (AA DC10 I think) and was surprised when the Captain announced that we could watch the landing on TV. There was a camera in the nose of the plane pointed towards the ground. As we landed we could see the runway approach and could watch all the way to touchdown. A very nice cheap thrill.

Have you seen such? Any airlines do such a thing nowadays?

I always assumed those cameras were mounted on the nose landing gear... explaining the reason that their orientation changes when the wheels are deployed or retracted. They are very common in flights around Asia.

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