Uae380 Problem
 

Uae380 still at fl90 approaching London from Manchester

Just landed 27L and vacated at the very end.

Nose wheel gear problem I believe wouldn`t retract

FL90 approaching BNN from the north would not be unusual. Anything from FL70-120 depending on traffic are used.

It would be if your destination is Dubai!

True, but maintaining FL90 all the way from MAN isn't quite so usual.

Thanks Air Clues but who said anything about Dubai?

Thanks Dave.. but who said it was maintaining FL90 all the the way from Manchester?

The higher fuel consumption reduces the dumping time. (I have no idea about the A380 dumping rates and fuel consumption. Had it been a 744 I could have quoted you the figures)

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It orbited for half-an-hour before setting course for LHR, but I'd be surprised if it spent that time raining Jet A-1 down on the good citizens of Wakefield ...

Pin left in?

Never happens. :O

Joking aside, I'd be surprised if EK use gear pins on a turnround at MAN.

Some companies insisted that lock pins were left in during pushback.Always thought that was unnecessary- may lead to the problem we have just seen.

From my distant memory, the removal of the down-lock pins must be entered in the AML. How do the engineers do this if they are in for push-back (or have the rules changed?)? I don't know about the 380 but the 744 down-lock pins are quite high up in the nose-wheel bay.
This pin should not be confused with the Hydraulic Shutoff Pin which is inserted during push-back to disable the nose-wheel steering and is shown to the pilots by the push-back crew.

More here from a couple of usual sources:

Incident: Emirates A388 at Manchester on Mar 12th 2017, could not retract landing gear

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/f.../ek18/#cb719a6

747 Downlock pins can be removed with a long tool while standing on the ground.

AIrclues

FWIW (probably not a lot) it still is with us (744/777) - downlock pins must be removed, seen by the flight crew and signed as removed in the AML prior to a pushback prior to flight. Obviously (?) the gear steering lock out pin gets removed prior to taxi.....

Now...are we any closer to finding out what happened with the 380?