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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Maverick on November 21, 2005, 12:51:31 PM

Title: Stuck gear woes
Post by: Maverick on November 21, 2005, 12:51:31 PM

A brand new Gulfstream on it's first corporate flight after being purchased by NIKE is circling with a stuck left gear. It took off and the gear didn't retract. The left main is stuck half up. They are now burning off fuel to land. I betcha that Gulfstream has some red faces right now. I believe it's happening now in Oregon. CNN headline is covering it.

Title: Stuck gear woes
Post by: Curval on November 21, 2005, 01:48:20 PM

Phil Knight is not on board and neither is any sports stars according to the news sites.

Well THANK COD for that...now I can relax.

:rolleyes:

Title: Stuck gear woes
Post by: Furball on November 21, 2005, 01:50:56 PM

im guessing they will fly it around for hours to burn the fuel off.. ?

Title: Stuck gear woes
Post by: Ripsnort on November 21, 2005, 02:17:00 PM

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Originally posted by Curval
Phil Knight is not on board and neither is any sports stars according to the news sites.

Well THANK COD for that...now I can relax.

:rolleyes:

:rofl :rofl

Title: Stuck gear woes
Post by: ChickenHawk on November 21, 2005, 03:17:52 PM

They landed ok.

"The Gulfstream jet touched down at 12:11 p.m. at Hillsboro airport, the same airport where it had taken off bound for Toronto around five hours earlier. The right main landing gear on the jet had become stuck shortly after takeoff but was successfully unstuck and extended after the crew consulted with Gulfsteam."

(http://www.katu.com/news/images/story2005/051121_tire_smoke_422.jpg)

Title: Stuck gear woes
Post by: Golfer on November 21, 2005, 03:36:36 PM

This was interesting to watch today.  I muted the television set for the most part but still learned that chocks might be tangled in the landing gear door, the emergency blow-down system is actually an explosive system which uses an explosive charge to blow up...and then I guess...blow down the landing gear and that "There were 7 people on the airplane, 4 high ranking Nike officials and three other people of some kind on board."

My guess is the main gear slammed into the gear door upon initial retraction, got stuck there and didn't come back down when they reselected gear down.  The airplane landed with that gear door hanging so I think it's safe to assume they hit with a pretty good thump.  Also the inboard wheel on the right main looked to be damaged while taxiing in.

Good show...and the talking heads don't get their "big fireball" as some newsb1tch so nicely put it.