Ser ut til å gå fint dette. Men, Gatwick har kun en runway, så det jobbes vel hysterisk for å flyet av banen.
Sjekk video her: http://tinyurl.com/ot83kjv
U.S.-bound jet makes safe emergency landing in U.K.
Virgin Atlantic emergency
landing
A U.S.-bound Virgin Atlantic jet that developed a
stuck landing gear made a safe, "non-standard" landing Monday on the three
remaining gears after returning to London's Gatwick Airport.
Television
images showed the Boeing 747 on the runway as fire trucks waited
nearby.
Flight 43, which left Gatwick at 11:45 a.m. with 447 passengers
and a crew of 15, was en route to Las Vegas.
The problem affected part of
the jet's right main landing gear, forcing the pilot to land on only three of
its four main landing gears, the BBC reports.
The pilot initially tried
to "shake" the stuck gear free by thrusting the plane forward rapidly while
flying at low altitude, but then chose to return to abort the flight and return
to Gatwick.
The pilot dumped some of the jet's fuel offshore then circled
off the coast of southwest England and over the London area for almost four
hours before landing.
A U.S.-bound Virgin Atlantic flight that developed
landing gear problems made a safe, "non-standard" landing Monday after returning
to London's Gatwick Airport. VPC
Passenger Mike Kaufman said the crew
remained calm and professional throughout the crisis. There were no injuries
during the evacuation.
"Everybody gave the crew a big round of applause
when we landed," he told Sky News from the plane. "I can't wait to get into the
terminal and have a gin and tonic now."
Gatwick airport confirmed the
emergency on Twitter, saying that emergency procedures were activated "purely as
a precaution."
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