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Cactusjack
27th Aug 2012, 04:29
Virgin Australia Flight Makes Emergency Landing At LAX
By Iris Salem | CBS Local - Los Angeles - 13 hrs ago
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A Virgin Australia flight from Brisbane has made an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport.
The flight bound for LAX landed safely at Terminal 25 on Sunday morning after reporting trouble with its landing gear, possibly a tire.
It’s unclear if the landing gear in fact had an issue.
The Boeing 777-300 had 416 passengers on board at the time.
No further information was available.
fmcinop
27th Aug 2012, 05:02
416 pax on a 777-300.....I don't think so!
361 pax seats and normally 17 crew. Even if you add infants you still don't get close to 416.
Bypass ratio
27th Aug 2012, 05:58
Emirates have 2 class B777-300ER with 442 seats......:ok:
Even our 3 class have 310/42/8 + 16 cabin crew & 4 Pilots = 380 POB
361 pax seats according to the Virgin Australia website (http://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/experience/on-board-the-flight/seat-maps/).
bluefish_au
27th Aug 2012, 07:10
Good on you news.com.au and theaustralian.com au for using a picture of a 738 in your online articles :ok:
Capt Kremin
27th Aug 2012, 07:50
landed safely at Terminal 25
No wonder it had a tyre problem!
neville_nobody
27th Aug 2012, 07:56
Just another ill informed media beatup. Anyway here are the lads safely putting it on the deck.
Virgin Australia Flight Makes Emergency Landing At LAX « CBS Los Angeles (http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/08/26/virgin-australia-flight-makes-emergency-landing-at-lax/)
Capt Fathom
27th Aug 2012, 10:56
Flight #7 bound for LAX landed safely on Sunday morning after reporting trouble with its landing gear, possibly its tire.
It’s unclear if the landing gear in fact had an issue.
The Boeing 777-300 had 416 passengers on board at the time. There were no reports of any injuries.
No further information was available.
1a sound asleep
27th Aug 2012, 11:03
Good free PR
Capn Bloggs
27th Aug 2012, 11:43
Emergency Landing? Looked better than my normal ones... :D
Capt Claret
27th Aug 2012, 12:59
Looked better than my normal ones... :D
Probably was too. :oh: ;) :E
nitpicker330
28th Aug 2012, 06:59
The Crew probably were made aware of a deflating tyre on the Gear Page. Slowly going flat, notified all concerned and landed.:ok:
I had the same thing on a 77W LAX to HKG 4 years ago. #3 main went flat after TO over a 2 hour period. We notified LAX to check the Runway ( nothing )
Spoke to HKG ATC and briefed them on what we needed and then Landed ok.
Didn't touch the brakes at all on the left side and parked at the gate. :ok:
The Engineer on headset said "what's the problem with the number 3 Tyre it looks ok"? Then he got a tyre pressure gauge, flat as a tack!! I never found out why it went flat, probably a nail while leaving LAX?
It was non event in the end but we went through the motions anyway. ( had 15 hours to think about it !! )
Lodown
28th Aug 2012, 10:25
Gotta watch out that you don't follow a builder's ute on take-off next time nitpicker. They're always dropping nails. :ok: