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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

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Post by flaminHotSpeedo »

sidlls wrote: post #50
jbverschoor wrote: post #20

They only circled around for a few minutes?

These planes all come with handbooks that the manufacturer provides for anomalous situations, like when some landing gear don't work. Once the flight crew run through the checklists in the handbooks for the problem, that's pretty much it. In certain cases and time permitting, the crew might also be in contact with their airline's maintenance/engineering staff in case there's something else that might be done. But onc…

I'm envious of the quality and coverage completeness of airline checklists, tech runbooks could take a page out of the airline book

Re: Delta flight lands in Charlotte without front landing gear

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Post by MSFT_Edging »

justinclift wrote: post #92

What's with them putting "a hold" on all of the passengers possessions? Like, that's leaving people without their wallets (aka id, money) and so on. Sounds like they may not get it back for an unknown period of time (weeks, months?) either.

I understand "don't take any bags as we deplane down the emergency slide", but the hold is weird. I'd probably get arrested in the process of being like "No the bag with my important possessions I keep next to me on purpose is coming with me"

They were probably rushed off due to being unsure about fire hazards, and people digging through carryons for wallets and stuff would probably slow that down a lot, considering how long a normal deplaning takes.

Re: Delta flight lands in Charlotte without front landing gear

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Post by [deleted] »

bin_bash wrote: post #21
gmtplus8 wrote: post #10

Non-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?

Well they are memorable for the people that live in the area—at least that was the case when broadcast TV/radio was important. There really wasn't a need for them to be decipherable to outsiders since historically they would be outside of the broadcast range.

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Re: Delta flight lands in Charlotte without front landing gear

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Post by ipnon »

Tepix wrote: post #7

Did they know in advance that they were having problems? Edit: Answer: Yes ... the crew initiated a go around due to a unsafe nose gear indication, climbed to 4000 feet and entered a hold to work the checklists. After working the checklists the crew declared emergency and requested emergency services on stand by. The aircraft performed a low approach to runway 36L, positioned for another approach to runway 36L and la…

There is an algorithm for everything in aviation. If you suspect your landing gear is not functional, you typically fly by a tower and have them make visual confirmation. Then you have another algorithm (they call them procedures) for how to land without gear. The airport likewise has a checklist of everything to do in this case. All of these procedures are hard won, the NTSB uses every hull failure and fatal accident to analyze what went wrong and how to create a better procedure.

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Post by myself248 »

keehun wrote: post #77
sokoloff wrote: post #19

Earlier 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…

My absolute favorite is KNOW -- the news channel of the Minnesota Public Radio network. I think it's just about as perfect as you can get for a news channel.

My favorite is WACO (Texas), the only radio station whose call letters are also its location.

Re: Delta flight lands in Charlotte without front landing gear

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Post by notatoad »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #68
devoutsalsa wrote: post #2

This isn't common, but it's pretty routine. Pilots are trained for this, and the aircraft are designed to handle the stress.

> the aircraft are designed to handle the stress. I wonder how the runway fares after this.

From the timestamps on the tweets in the article, the incident happened around 8am and the runway was put back into service around 5pm after being inspected.

So at least in this case, it doesn't seem to have had a serious impact on the runway

Re: Delta flight lands in Charlotte without front landing gear

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Post by 4ggr0 »

mindslight wrote: post #90
4ggr0 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What's the actual point of Youtube Shorts? To be an alternative to TikTok, or Instagram Reels, or other short-form video platforms.

Sure, I meant for the people actually using it. Like if you want TikTok just continuing using TikTok, which you know is "mobile-first" and thus craptastic in a regular browser but presumably you don't care. But Google seems to have just blindly copied TikTok and enshittified their existing product to push it, when they could have integrated it into normal Youtube and made something better than both.

Well I can talk about myself :)

I don't want TikTok. Mostly because I don't want to use yet another app or account. Then there's the thing about it being from China, but to be honest, as a European it doesn't reeeally matter to me if an app is from the US or China. I did actually try TikTok during the pandemic but became too addicted due to constant WFH and boredom.

I have Instagram because I like to upload my favorite pictures. Then they started with Reels, I checked it out, liked it, so I now use it.

When I feel like Reels bore me, or that the algo seems to currently push things I don't care about[0], I switch over to YT Shorts.

There, the youtubers I'm already subscribed to upload shorter videos and I generally see different kinds of videos.

Instagram mostly shows me memes and cat videos. YT shorts is more about stand-up comedy bits, science stuff etc.

So my usage of these apps depends on how I currently feel like.

[0] Both Insta and YT sometimes start to flood me with content about annoying Entrepreneur/Online Marketing bs, Andrew Tate or far(ish)-right-wing trash or half-naked women. No amount of "not interested" seems to help, so I either switch app or do something else.

Re: Delta flight lands in Charlotte without front landing gear

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Post by piva00 »

mindslight wrote: post #72
piva00 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here you can see a YT Shorts that a passenger inside the flight shot, it's actually much less stressful than I imagined: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W12w7NkqGCM

What's the actual point of Youtube Sharts? It just seems like encouragement for people to film vertically and not frame the shot well. And on the watching side you're pushed into a needlessly unfriendly UI. Like I generally just use the YT web interface and don't go out of my way to routinely yt-dlp or Newpipe, but now I might have to change that.

I don't know, I hate them, it was just the only video I actually found when searching for the flight name on YouTube. Personally I actively avoid that feature, closing the "Shorts" shelf on YouTube at any opportunity I see.

I really, really dislike short looping videos, when it starts looping I get irrationally angry and close the window. Instagram Reels is another feature I fucking detest.

I might be showing my age, I don't understand the appeal of TikTok, it just makes me stressed, haha.

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