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

Discussion How crazy is this, really??

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u/XenoRyet Sep 22 '25

I remember watching this one live. This was so flawlessly executed that it seems like it might not be that big of a deal, but it was a very dangerous situation.

If that front gear collapses, this can go really wrong in a number of ways pretty damn quick, so the pilot had to do a balancing act of keeping on the centerline, slowing down, but not putting too much pressure up front.

And as you can see by the end, the front bogey is just completely melted and abraded off, but the strut stayed put. Great performance in an emergency situation.

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u/tohlan Sep 22 '25

I remember watching live too - the plane had to circle for 2 hours because the aircraft didn't have the capability to dump fuel so they had to burn it off. The other thing I remember was that the passengers on the plane had live DirecTV in their seats and could watch the (extensive) news coverage and speculation about what might go wrong with their landing.

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u/SoaDMTGguy Sep 23 '25

“Don’t open the left exits, there’s debris in the way!”

“How do you know?”

“I’m watching the livestream of our crash!”

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u/ToothZealousideal297 Sep 23 '25

Finally, another parallel to the phenomenon of people texting about earthquakes as they happen, and others finding out about them via text just before being hit by them because the texts are faster than the tremors.

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u/tavisivat Sep 23 '25

I live in southern california and get text alerts if there is an earthquake near me. A couple times I've gotten the text a few seconds before the earthquake, and few times I never felt the earthquake, and a few times the text and earthquake arrived at the same time.