Thomas Cook 757 'Loses wheel on take off'
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Thomas Cook 757 'Loses wheel on take off'
ITV Teletext reporting a Thomas Cook 757 flying from Gatwick to Sofia returned to Gatwick after 'the front wheel fell off'.
Made an emergency landing at Gatwick and all ended happily ever after.
Sounds like our journo friends have being having a slow day.
Anyone with any 'facts'?
Made an emergency landing at Gatwick and all ended happily ever after.
Sounds like our journo friends have being having a slow day.
Anyone with any 'facts'?
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Story also on Sky News as below:
EMERGENCY LANDING ALERT
A Thomas Cook passenger plane has been forced to make an emergency landing at Gatwick after losing one of its wheels.
The jet, carrying 177 passengers, lost its front wheel soon after taking off from London Gatwick Airport at 2.35pm bound for Sofia in Bulgaria.
The pilot turned back to Gatwick where the aircraft made an emergency landing with fire engines and ambulances standing by as a precaution.
A spokeswoman for Gatwick Airport said the plane had now landed safely, but it was not immediately clear whether there had been any casualties.
The plane's other two wheels are not thought to have been damaged.
The spokeswoman added: "The next step is to get all the passengers off and check they are okay."
It's a bit worrying that Thomas Cook are operating their 757s with only three wheels. My understanding was that a well maintained 757 should have ten wheels attached to the bottom of the aircraft. Losing one would leave nine.
I do, of course, bow to the superior mathematical intellect of the news staff at Sky.
EMERGENCY LANDING ALERT
A Thomas Cook passenger plane has been forced to make an emergency landing at Gatwick after losing one of its wheels.
The jet, carrying 177 passengers, lost its front wheel soon after taking off from London Gatwick Airport at 2.35pm bound for Sofia in Bulgaria.
The pilot turned back to Gatwick where the aircraft made an emergency landing with fire engines and ambulances standing by as a precaution.
A spokeswoman for Gatwick Airport said the plane had now landed safely, but it was not immediately clear whether there had been any casualties.
The plane's other two wheels are not thought to have been damaged.
The spokeswoman added: "The next step is to get all the passengers off and check they are okay."
It's a bit worrying that Thomas Cook are operating their 757s with only three wheels. My understanding was that a well maintained 757 should have ten wheels attached to the bottom of the aircraft. Losing one would leave nine.
I do, of course, bow to the superior mathematical intellect of the news staff at Sky.
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Watched it from concorde house. Seemed to land "normally" bit of smoke from under carriage then all the lights went out (landing etc) came to a quick stop but veered off between exits...seconds later surrounded by emergency services. Flight deck in my crew room commented it looked like a job well done under circumstances.
Well done to all guys n gals involved....hope your all ok.
Well done to all guys n gals involved....hope your all ok.
How did the crew know that they had lost a nosewheel ?
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Apparantly the wheel hit a BA engineering hangar. ATC then informed the TCX flight crew who did a fly by to confirm it....was then gone for about 45mins. Presume it would have to dump fuel before landing????
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"The plane's other two wheels are not thought to have been damaged"
I think this sentence just about sums up the media's pain-staking research into their stories!
I think this sentence just about sums up the media's pain-staking research into their stories!
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I think they were probally tring to say the other two landing gears were undamaged, which to joe public would have made sense. We would not notice laymans terms on other subjects i am sure.
I heard of a case at a court many years back on which someone i knew was on the jury and the judge/magistrate had to stop the proceedings umpteen times for the evidence to be simplified for everyone to undestand what was actually going on, not only that we have a language in aviation that is very particular to our field.
All i am trying to say is that it is easy to be critical.
I heard of a case at a court many years back on which someone i knew was on the jury and the judge/magistrate had to stop the proceedings umpteen times for the evidence to be simplified for everyone to undestand what was actually going on, not only that we have a language in aviation that is very particular to our field.
All i am trying to say is that it is easy to be critical.
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First nose wheel lost on take off - second wheel burst on landing which was text book and a top job by the crew nose wheel down at the very last point. No injuries aaib on route
Congrats to all involved
Congrats to all involved
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I think you will find it was a 757
Relistening to the recording, definitely says 'after the A320 on short final for the ground around..'
