I watched it live and expected the front gear to fold back into the plane, I was very impressed with the plane and the pilot. He put on a great show.

 

I'll take Boeing anyday!

 

On the Salt Lake Utah news, they were talking to a airplane mechanic. He said it happens alot, but the media usually don't know about it, so we think this is the only time it has ever happened. He said there was a chance the wheels would turn when they hit the runway, but if not, the front gear would not fold. I guess pilots train for this type of failure all the time.

Having said that, the pilot still did an excelent job!

 

The sick thing is that the passengers probably did to. Jet Blue has tv monitors in the backs of all the seats. I don't know if the monitors display live feeds or just a tape loop from a vcr in the plane.

 

Passengers did watch the ordeal while they were circling but the TV's got turned off during the landing.

The airbus sucks. This happens all the time, but with all the other disasterous things going one in America they might as well show it.

Pilots show great calm & skill during the event.

JetBlue's stock dropped because of the event.

Try working at a International Airport. I worked at CLT for 4 years. You wouldn't beleive the things I have seen or learned about these vehicles. Some passenger planes with a age back to the 70's.......

 

i heard that the only thing the pilot was dissaponted about was that he landed it 2 feet form the centerline. lol now that is a good pilot

 

I must confess I that I do not know much about the airbus planes, but the one area of information that I do have concerning them makes me question the "fine european craftsmanship" building them. The company I was employed at manufactured miltary style lockwashers that were bought by many vendors among them one who supplied them to Airbus. We were making them using blank and pierce type tooling, Our company aquired a laser and converted much of short run production from the old tooling to production on the laser.
We had no complaints from most of our vendors but the Airbus vendors wanted to come in and inspect our operation. One of the visitors was from Airbus and was adamant that the laser cut washers would not work, being the programmer and in charge of laser operation I was curious as to why he thought this. His explanation was that the lockwashers that were lasered were not as strong as the punched variety. Again I asked why, to which he replied that if the lockwasher was put on with the wrong orientation and torqued into place that when they took them off and "Flattened them out for reuse" they would form stress cracks! About this time I made a personal vow to never fly on an Airbus. I do not reuse lockwashers or cotter pins in my old truck and for sure am not going to fly on a airplane that does! I dont know but this type of "craftsmanship" may explain the numerous incidents.

 

Yeah - AIRBUS PILOTS!

I hear they put them in Dune Buggies to practice using "cutting brakes" and make them ride wheelies on BMX bikes...