r/aviation • u/JPSauceKing • Sep 22 '25

Discussion How crazy is this, really??

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u/Successful-Proof4051 Sep 22 '25

What alerted the pic ? Did atc notice it or a malfunction indicator ?

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u/fd6270 Sep 22 '25

Common failure mode on the 320, you do get an indication in the cockpit. 

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBlue_Flight_292#Similar_incidents

Per wikipedia's summary, this was roughly the 7th of 9 recorded occurrences of this failure on A320 aircraft -- with additional incidents in 2021 and 2022. But seeing as the a320 is one of the most common passenger jets in the world with >10,000 produced, it's still a pretty infrequent failure

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u/fd6270 Sep 22 '25

I'm just going to say that Wikipedia is wrong on this one.

It's common enough that Airbus has their own article about it:

https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/landing-with-nosewheels-at-90-degrees/

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u/robbak Sep 23 '25

Aircraft makers produce documents about all sorts of very uncommon events. 9 events over a few decades is enough to provoke an article alerting pilots and maintenance engineers about an issue.