Go around and try again, this time with wheels
 

"This is your Captain speaking. To avoid interferring with sensitive flight equipment during critical stages of flight, can I remind you to keep your mobiles phones switched off until you are in the terminal building."

Pilot 'texting during landing'

Of course, as with hospitals, safety critical restrictions do not apply to staff.

Darling I'm going to be late...
 

Was the pilot who was texting PF? :hmm:

If it's true, he should be fired
Give the job to professional a pilot instead

Reminds me of the story of the Los Angeles Metrolink engineer who crashed because he missed a stop signal while testing. :eek:

Report: Metrolink Engineer Texting With Teen Moments Before Killer Commuter Crash - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com

At least we have additional backup safety systems in modern aircraft to give a second chance at boneheads who violate the most basic of safety procedures as well as common sense. :ugh:

Ok this is crazy , both missed the gear , so they were texting each other

ATSB initial report
 

AO-2010-035

The report only states that the go-around was due to a config warning.

The rest (gear, mobile phone) appears to be speculation

DIVOSH!

Love the way the Monday morning quarterbacks are all out in force !
pathetic :mad:

Dude! You must be jetlagged! It's Saturday morning :p :p :p

Reminds me of the story of the first officer who noticed the captain had not called for landing gear down during an ILS and dropped the hint diplomatically by saying "Do you want me to go ahead with the landing checklist, Captain - or would you prefer to concentrate on the ILS...."?:ouch:

Never know they minght of had the i-Phone with the Garmin 430 App practising their R-NAV GNSS App??
:ok:

I'd better wait till confirmations before I write:oh:

He is probably EK.

A: He is complaining.
B: He is jetlagged.
C: In Dubai Friday is Sunday, so Saturday is Monday.

Over the years I've had several of these warnings and discontinued the approaches. Each time the aircraft has said the gear not was down and locked. Big deal. But the BIG question is, which plonker knows for SURE that these guys were distracted to such an extent that they forgot the gear? To know for sure, you'd have to be in the flight deck. And if you were that close it would be face arrangingly personal...

PM

Hey there big man composed of different parts ;) you can avoid this by putting down the gear :O saves a lot of gas, or are you trying to say you got false warnings?

btw, how can you get quotes of people on this board? I don't have a little quote button on the bottom of posts like on other boards!

How do people know for sure that they were on their mobiles?

Click on 'Reply' for the post you want to quote and in the address bar where it says &noquote=1 change to &noquote=0

Select and copy (Ctrl-C) the text you wish to quote. Hit the "Post reply" button at the bottom. Paste (Ctrl-V) the text, select it again. Hit the "Quote" symbol on the toolbar. If you're unsure which it is, just hover the mouse pointer over each symbol in turn until the tool-tip pops up. Add whatever text you wish. Sorted.

exactly.
mind you... they might pull the phone records (or threaten to!)

It happens
 

I've received emails from a captain of a UK airline whilst he was flying..more than once! And yes, I questioned it....his reply: autopilot flying.

Guess if this is true it may not be an isolated case :hmm:

Funny, all that leaving my cell on in-flight does is to make the battery run down really fast as it tries unsuccessfully to "shake hands" with the myriad cells I'm overflying at any one time.

When I'm on approach, I will sometimes get a bunch of voicemails which have accumulated, but I have never once had my phone ring above 10,000 ft.