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Old 09-13-2007 | 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by SAABaroowski
Well, not too big of a deal but as we turn final to land in EWR and I go to put "Flaps 9" in, you guessed it, Flap fail, after 20 mins of circling and talking to company and running a few checklists my CA does a really amazing job of putting the airplane down right on the markers (I think she just came off of like 3 weeks vacation)and right on ref (163 kts). Wasn't a big deal in retrospect, but the pucker facto was there, the Flaps Zero approach felt kinda awkward, I couldn't help but notice the what seemed like a dozen or Firetrucks waiting for us down the end of the RWY The whole approach seemed low, flat and fast, but all in all pretty good experience, anybody remember their first emergency?
Looks like your CA is a cool customer.
This probably does not count as an emergency, but a couple of weeks ago I had a pitch trim fail that kicked off autopilot in the middle of a climb out of a very busy airport. The amber message did go out after few minutes of handflying and we were able to put the AP back on.
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