Strange landing at SJC

Hello again,

On Aug 19, 3:32*pm, Alexander Avtanski wrote:
[...]
I just came back from a walk outside my office in Santa Clara. *Around
3:00pm I saw something quite unusual - while all the planes from San
Jose International were taking off in N-W direction, there was a
single plane (something that looked a bit like MD-80) that seemed to
_land_ coming from N-W, exactly opposite the rest of the traffic.
[...]

I just got an e-mail from a reader of this group (Thanks!), who sent
me links to some ATC audio and pointed out the place where the tower
says that a "flight check Lear will do a low approach to 12R".

http://avtanski.net/images/var/KSJC-...2008-2200Z.mp3

(This is about 20 sec. from the start of the recording).

So, first, shame on me that I could confuse a Learjet with MD-80. It
has been quite low then and it zoomed really fast so it managed to
surprise me and I couldn't get a look, but still...

I checked the approach audio too - at about 24min 20sec of this
recording some guy says something about "we've lost a receiver", but I
can't make the rest. Here's the audio (don't forget to scroll to the
24:20 mark!):

http://avtanski.net/images/var/KSJC-...2008-2130Z.mp3

What's this about? Just curious...

Regards,

- Alex