might be sparks. again, not speculating here because we don t know the cause. we don t know if it s a landing gear problem or an engine problem but they are there for safety reasons. that helps them in a couple of different ways and that has a very long runway and gives the pilot a chance to be able to set that thing down at a relatively low speed. and we don t know if crews are headed to the airport to see if they were capsular the flight arrival lives, but we will bring that to you on the other side of the break. you can refinance at newday usa with no income verification, no appraisal, and no points and save over 1,000 dollars a year.
the bombers to the targets on the night of the attack. and scary that a plane made a belly landing when they encountered landing gear problem, and you will see the sparks are the there, but nobody was injured and they foam ed th runway effectively. a man was pulled over initially for not having the lights on, and then the dash cam recorded to the amazement that the driver tried to snort cocaine right then and there. are you kidding? you are about to snort coke on the side of the road? no! what would possess you to do that on a traffic stop with a police officer behind you? i don t understand. i don t understand either. and then the driver tried to say it was vitamin, and then later said it was cocaine. and now, will the increased
were they ready? was the cabin prepared, fully prepared? he was very, very concerned about protecting the passengers and what he was not hearing was the fact that the two other pilots, the first officer and the flight engineer, were getting increasingly concerned about fuel. the crew members are concerned, but they are not clearly expressing it to the captain. they continue to focus on landing gear problem. one of the flight crew came back with a flashlight because it was dark outside to check landing gear to see if he could see out the window which i don t know if he saw or not, but that was our first clue that something was really wrong. on the dc8, there are mechanical indicators of the landing gear position. it s a pin that actually came up on the top of the wing that you could see. if a pin is up, the gear is locked. if not, the gear is retracted. so if you had a mechanical indication to either validate or invalidate what the light in the cockpit is telling you about the
recent crashes. the giant try star left a half-mile long path of debris in the swamp. we looked the at the eastern airlines everglades crash and there we lost over 100 people started out as the landing gear light and the crew became distracted and flue into the swamp. another united d.c. 8 one year prior to the portland crash same thing, they had a landing gear problem and troubleshooting and flew into a mountain. the common link, none efficient or communication in the cockpit. this failure to communicate is literally crashing planes. deal knows something has to be done to stem the tide. he begins building a case for airlines to adopt a training procedure developed by nasa called crew resource management, crm. crm is basically promoted that if you re going to walk together as a team, you re going
united flight 173 has been flying in a holding pattern near the portland oregon airport for more than an hour. the captain wants time to troubleshoot a possible landing gear problem but now, something far more urgent is on the horizon. portland tower, united 173, mayday, mayday, the engines are flaming out, we re going down. we re not going to be able to make the airport. the passengers are aware of the increasingly dire situation. the only lights on were reading lights and some people realized that something was wrong and yelled for us to get our heads down. the plane has run out of fuel and it s coming in fast over a wooded residential area. captain mcbroom heads towards