There was also another recent story about KQ... took off early in one of their new 777 for London, leaving some on-time passengers behind, discovered they had a gear warning and had to circle for quite some time dumping fuel before they could return to JKIA. On landing, they discovered that the gear pins "remove before flight" were still in - hence the gear problem. Someone with a flair for
PR told the waiting passengers that the aircraft had returned "just for them", refuelled, took the gear pins out, loaded the passengers before the crew realised they were out of duty time!!! Nice one fellas!!
ahem
.......the Kq flight to LHR already had its landing gear pins OFF AS REQUIRED and put in their designated slots in the wheel well.however sme mtce work was being done in the E&E bay and some Ground air module's Cb was left
pulled...........my 2 cents tho`