air midwest B717 at Boston

[flown-it]

B717 just landed after burning off fuel for 2 hours. Sparks seen from right gear on t/o. Also on landing. Seems everything is OK but talking heads on CNN making a meal of it!

[filejw]

Give her a break....... It's a rating's week.

[visibility3miles]

From CNN, "textbook emergency landing, straight on the stripe."

Plus the plane is now at the gate (towed), and no reports of injuries.

Good job guys (or gals)!

[westhawk]

Another nice landing on global television. Well done! That makes about 4 of these in the last couple of months. Thanks to these crews for bringing their "A" game with them to these television events and thus doing their part to re-habilitate the professional image of working pilots in the eyes of the US public.

Now, about that salary figure......

Westhawk

[Ignition Override]

You must mean "Midwest Airlines", based in Milwaukee. That is a different company.

[Airbubba]

Midwest Airlines jet evacuated at Logan

By Chase Davis, Globe Correspondent | December 22, 2005

The smell of smoke wafting through the cabin prompted officials to evacuate a Midwest Airlines 717 jet shortly after noon at Logan Airport -- the second incident this week for the airline, after the tense emergency landing of a Milwaukee-bound plane on Tuesday night.

The smoke likely came from the plane's aeronautics system, which contains navigation equipment, said Phil Orlandella, spokesman for the Massachusetts Port Authority. The plane was evacuated at the gate. No injuries were reported.

Passenger Gina Maniscalco, of Sharon, said the plane's captain identified a faulty cockpit monitor as the problem.

Maniscalco said the Kansas City-bound flight was delayed for at least two hours.

The Midwest airlines plane Tuesday night circled the airport for several hours before landing without incident. Investigators said there was a problem with bearings in the landing gear.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/12/22/midwest_airlines_jet_evacuated_at_logan/

[bafanguy]

WHOA !!!! It was in the plane's "...aeronautics system...". Man, that was a close one.

You'd think that even a minimal effort at reporting would require talking to someone who had enough knowledge to keep the readers in the aviation community from laughing out loud.

[FLCH]

WHOA !!!! It was in the plane's "...aeronautics system...". Man, that was a close one.

I remember seeing a CNN reporrt announcing to the world that "Something may have been wrong with the glidescope".
I always thought a glidescope was what was inserted into one posterior after an accident !!

[flown-it]

You must mean "Midwest Airlines", based in Milwaukee. That is a different company.
Thanks it was late when I posted that.

Incidently since we are dissing the average journo.... the report on CNN by their highly paid female anchour as we waited for the landing was that....

"shortly after take-off the pilots noticed something wrong with the landing gear"

I say blogs whats that big red light on the gear for???

Makes one cringe!!

[Algy]

OK Flown-It, just a simple hack me, but you'll have to explain to me which bit of the statement "shortly after take-off the pilots noticed something wrong with the landing gear" makes you cringe.

[flown-it]

Algy
NOTICED.....just seems entirely the wrong word. Seems to me that one is in the wrong ocupation if you only "Notice" something wrong with the aircraft.
Plus the way she said it (having already heard someone mention that "the pilots saw sparks from the landing gear" )just reinforced the notion that sensationalism was over ruling facts.

[barit1]

Journalists from all over the world come to Boston to serve their apprenticeships in misreportage.

[hobie]

I sometimes wonder if quoting "Media info" on incidents should be dis-allowed on PPrune .... 50% of follow-on posts are simply dedicated to critizing the accuracy of same ..... such a move would cut the number of posts in half (at least) .... improve server performance .... and make life for the mods so much more pleasant ... :cool:

why not simply quote the basic incident data and ask if someone in the 'know' on PPruNe knows what the true background to the story is ....

[jondc9]

fellow ppruners! I have a great interest in improving the quality of aviation reporting, especially as a situation is developing.

I hate it too when someone says: REVERSE THRUSTERS and GLIDESCOPE.


I don't like seeing someone refer to a wing as a fuselage. I can't stand the notion of a Cessna 150 carrying 10 people!


AND ALL PIPERS aren't cubs! (though I sometimes wish they were!)

I would like to know what you all think.

My background is about 12k flying hours, 737, DC9, BAE146, Sabreliner, MU2, Metroliner and a whole bunch of lighter stuff. CFIIMEIATPMEL (piper super cub is still the best single, and I think the DC9 is the best airliner!)

let's here what you have to say about this subject...if we have to we can move it to another spot. Tell me which network YOU turn to and why when you here about something happening.

regards

jon

[Algy]

Yes but here we have someone seriously objecting to the use of the phrase "the pilot noticed something was wrong...."

It actually made the poor delicate soul cringe. Ye Gods!

(A little bit delicate about this just now since there is still a post on another Pprune string expressing the sentiment that the loss of numerous lives in the recent Tehran C-130 horror was not worthy of condolences since the victims were journalists. Requests to the moderators to remove this post have - unusually - gone unanswered.)

[OFBSLF]

Journalists from all over the world come to Boston to serve their apprenticeships in misreportage.I dearly wish that was the case. Unfortunately, it seems that incompetent journos are in abundance the world over.