"C. Massey" wrote in message
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Continental commuter jet has landing gear problems and is scheduled to
land in about 20 minutes live on tv!




Well, luckily it was a very uneventful landing.

Seems they ran over some FOD on takeoff and blew the two, left main tires.
They burned fuel for about 2 1/2 hours and that was about the smoothest
landing that I have over seen. I didn't even see any sparks.

This was a flight from Bush Intercontinental in Houston to Minneapolis.

3 tv stations in my area had live, uninterrupted coverage for about an hour
and they all had different things to say. One station said they normally
don't foam runways before landing anymore and that they won't do it in this
case, then, another station said they had already foamed the runway. Ends up
there was no foam used. Typical media.




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