What would you have done differently?

 

Doesn't Canadian ATC ask to confirm Gear Down 3-green when giving a landing clnc?

Anybody have an opinion on that one?

Lax

 

I don't the answer to your question, but this was in boston.

 

Military towers do.

 

No they don't

 

Interesting....I had a professor who bellied in an O-2 when he was in the military.

The cockpit voice recorder should clear most of this up.

-Ben

 

Oh...well, someone told me that they did...

Well back to my question...Anybody have an opinion on the whole "gear down" confirmation thing?

Lax

 

Unbelievable, well tell us, what would you have done?, landed belly up, slid off the side of the runway impacted terrain, have the airplane come apart and have....... oh I dunno 3,000lbs of Jet-A soak the passengers then ignite????? When something is wrong especially that close to the ground, you gotta get the hell out of there, FLY FIRST FIX SECOND. Just because its not in a manual or is not clearly printed out for you in some dumb QRH does not mean it was the wrong thing to do, despite what people think, or what technology has done for us the one thing people seem to forget is that simple stick & rudder skills is what saves peoples asses.............I believe this is the second time a quick thinking Eagle crew had escaped what could of been a terrible incident.........

PS I do not know the whole story, but from what I have been told they may have gone around ebcuase they were not sure if they could Land & Hold short.........not sure if they realized what was going on, but even so good decision to go around..................

 

How long ago was this? If he is a professor I'm sure it was many years ago. Try reading the 7110. It spells everything out.

 

What I was told by a friend based in BOS is that the the before landing checklist was complete, with a 3 green indication. There might have been a air/ground fail ICAS indication so the crew felt unsure, so the did the right thing and went around, scraping the runway as a result. But as in previous posts i agree, the media are a bunch of morons. you cant dump fuel on the emb145.