Yup, it's anotjher one, not a repost! What gives?

Feb 22, 2000 - 03:09 PM

MD80 Flight From Tampa to Dallas Makes Emergency Landing in Miami

The Associated Press

MIAMI (AP) - An American Airlines MD80 made an emergency landing Tuesday at Miami International Airport after the crew found problems with the nose gear.

Flight 1139 left Tampa International Airport at 6:32 a.m. headed for Dallas before it turned around because the nose gear door would not close, said American Airlines spokeswoman Cathy Chapman.

The plane, carrying 133 passengers and six crewmembers, landed safely in Miami, she said. There were no injuries.

The passengers changed planes and arrived in Dallas at 2:01 EST.

American maintains a hub at Miami.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/florida/MGI024SXZ4C.html

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), February 22, 2000

Answers

"Planes will not fall out of the sky."

-John A. Koskienen, 1999

-- No Polly (nopolly@hotmail.com), February 22, 2000.

It's a bug, no, it's a chemtrail, no, it's an embedded, no, it's, it's, it's a jinx!

Wheez ain't flyin

-- voodoo minxt (allaha@earthlink.net), February 22, 2000.

Holy cow, another MD80! Good work Carl.

"the nose gear door would not close"

I believe the switch that the pilots use to control this goes through the computer system and the status is displayed on the digital instrument panel. Sounds like an embedded chip problem to me.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), February 22, 2000.

Hawk, sounds like your brain isn't embedded in your skull.

You are like an annoying whining dog with your puerile comments. No one with any capacity for basic logic will EVER take you seriously.

-- Mr. Sane (hhh@home.com), February 22, 2000.

I was going to fly south in May, but have changed my mind. I do believe that these air incidents/accidents are Y2K related. As well as chemical spills, sewage spills, and our oil ills! And, I have noticed that Fox News & All News Channel have been reporting the air incidents. But, no mention of "WHY" so many, at this particular time. We report you decide, but apparently no one is listening close enough.

-- Ruth Angell (bar@bpsinet.com), February 22, 2000.

"Hawk, sounds like your brain isn't embedded in your skull."

No, my brain is not embedded in my skull, and I for one am damn glad it isn't.

Is yours? (That would explain why you talk like you do!) What happened, did you crash in an MD80?

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), February 22, 2000.

I'm as skeptical/concerned as the next guy about all these flight incidents with the MD80 series stabilizer problems, porposing etc., but honestly folks, anyone in the airline industry would be able to tell you that emergency landings are more routine/common than you think. That is your flight crew doing their due diligence when there is any little indication that something *might* be wrong with the plane. Simple, precautionary measure...and anyone on that plane ought to be grateful for this occurence.

Where do I get my info from?...how about from multiple family members who have made their living in the air for the past 30 odd years.

-- (massdelusion@juno.com), February 22, 2000.

If a flight from Tampa to Dallas landed in Miami, there must be something wrong with the AutoPilot, GPS, Compass or something

-- Am I Lost (Tampa_To Dallas@Miami.How), February 22, 2000.

Hawk said No, my brain is not embedded in my skull, and I for one am damn glad it isn't.

Every once in a great while he says something that's actually true.

-- Mikey2k (mikey2k@he.wont.eat.it), February 22, 2000.

I guess they may have taken the p[lane to the maintenance facility, rather than the nearest airport...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), February 22, 2000.

Polly Legend!

" I'm as skeptical/concerned as the next guy about all these flight incidents with the MD80 series stabilizer problems, porposing etc., but honestly folks, anyone in the airline industry would be able to tell you that emergency landings are more routine/common than you think. That is your flight crew doing their due diligence when there is any little indication that something *might* be wrong with the plane. Simple, precautionary measure...and anyone on that plane ought to be grateful for this occurence.

Where do I get my info from?...how about from multiple family members who have made their living in the air for the past 30 odd years.

-- (massdelusion@juno.com), February 22, 2000. "

Next time please post a link and you will be taken seriously. I know, a friend of a friend was a polly and once had a link. I swear it was a real link that everyone in my neighbors dead aunts house saw.

-- justwondering (justwondering@giveitabreak.com), February 22, 2000.

"Massdelusion" has a point. Not EVERY emergency landings have to do with stabilizer problems. There were emergency landings before the roll-over unrelated to y2k, and those types of incidents continue now. Lets get a grip on ourselves and focus on the relevant things.

Hawk, if you suspect a connection with the nose gear and the plane's digital system, how about making a coherent case for it? Otherwise you're trolling the trolls :-P

-- Chris (*#$%^@pond.com), February 23, 2000.

"Nose gear door wouldn't close."

The gear doors are hydraulically operated and position checked with contact switches. The hydraulic actuators are operated by valves which control the entire landing gear movement process. Once the first valve is turned on by moving the gear handle the completion of one step uses fluid power to start the next step. Next best thing to purely mechanical operation.

My bet is that the doors actually did close but that the closed position switch has either failed or was out of adjustment. I've seen that happen many times for landing gear, flaps, canopies and tailhooks.

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), February 23, 2000.