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Delta flight lands in Charlotte without front landing gear
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Re: Delta flight lands in Charlotte without front landing gear
#32They only circled around for a few minutes?
They run their checklists and once all options have been exhausted to rectify the situation, what else should they do other than land? Also, they only had 30 minutes of fuel remaining.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
>the aircraft are designed to handle the stress. I was somewhat thinking of the passengers.
Well, if the pilots are indeed trained on how to handle these situations, the passengers will be fine. Maybe a bit shaken up from having to evacuate on the tarmac (especially if they have a fear of flying), but they'll be fine.
Flying for me ain't fun but as soon the bird is on the ground I'm all good!
Re: Delta flight lands in Charlotte without front landing gear
#34They only circled around for a few minutes?
> landed without nose gear extended at 08:54L (12:54Z) about 12 minutes after the second go around and about 30 minutes after the first go around.
Via Tepix's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519150
In combination with what mannykannot replied to you, that doesn't sound particularly rushed to me (not that I'm an expert, but it would be surprising if they'd needed an hour for such a relatively common type of incident).
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#35This isn't common, but it's pretty routine. Pilots are trained for this, and the aircraft are designed to handle the stress.
Interesting! Do you know if it can just survive it and then needs to be scrapped or is it possible to replace the damaged hull plate(s) and (after thorough inspection) put the plane back into service?
They can most certainly repair the plane. If you've never heard of the "Gimli Glider", check this out...
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#36why don't they land on the tail instead of the nose? Seems a lot less risky to drag the back than scrape the front - which can flip the plane Is it simply the center of gravity? (engines look like they're behind)
I don't know what model of plane this is, but I was watching a Real Engineering video on the Boeing 787. He said that some planes have a third engine for generating electricity (the APU) and the exhaust for that is at the tip of the tail.
Maybe there are concerns about potentially damaging the APU?
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#37Non-USA resident here. Can someone explain all the four-letter news station names to me? Why not brand them with something more memorable / locally nuanced?
The FCC licenses are given with those station identifying letters and there’s a requirement to broadcast the station ID periodically. Many stations have an additional brand (often “Fox Boston”), but they still have to use the FCC ID as well. One of my favorite station IDs was an independent local analog UHF channel 56 with call letters WLVI. I heard those letters for years before I realized it was 56 in Roman numeral…
>One of my favorite station IDs was an independent local analog UHF channel 56 with call letters WLVI.
Bangor, ME has an ABC affiliate WVII broadcasting on VHF channel 7.
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#38Non-USA resident here. Can someone explain all the four-letter news station names to me? Why not brand them with something more memorable / locally nuanced?
They are from the radio call signs - K or W is the first for almost all of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_call_signs
The other thing that might not be obvious to non-residents is that K is for West of the Mississippi, and W is for East.
It must be weird to live near the Mississippi and get a mix of K and W station call signs!
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mechanical stress, they mean.
Planes have to be sturdy and flexible to handle the environment they spend most of their time cruising in. This is probably nothing next to the turbulence planes are expected to shrug off while maintaining a ground level environment eight miles up for decades of service life.
I was somewhat thinking of the mechanical stress of the passengers.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
The FCC licenses are given with those station identifying letters and there’s a requirement to broadcast the station ID periodically. Many stations have an additional brand (often “Fox Boston”), but they still have to use the FCC ID as well. One of my favorite station IDs was an independent local analog UHF channel 56 with call letters WLVI. I heard those letters for years before I realized it was 56 in Roman numeral…
This is why it became common; the FCC requires you say the station ID once every period of time (10? 30?) so people became very used to hearing it. You can think of it as the "smash like and subscribe" of the radio days!
Station ID is every hour. Also you have to say it in a very specific format: Call letters, city; or call letters, frequency, city. No additional words in between: “WKRP in Cincinnati” would be invalid.
TV stations are allowed to do it visually. When I was young it was common to see it as a full screen ID in between shows (often with a quick weather report, “time and temperature”). Later most stations I saw quit that and just put it as a bug at the bottom of the screen over top of the show.