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Plane to be light and to be able to slow down to a very good speed before it actually touches down gently on the nose gear. megyn: and jon scott, we re told that that s exactly an lear jet that the landing problem is doing, circling and burning off fuel i imagine in that scenario how donning would it it take? and any danger to those below with the fuel? no danger really on the ground. as long as you re able to dissipate that in the air. and, yeah, they re going to as trace said, you don t want to bring an airplane in heavy. the lighter it is, the easier it is on the systems, you know, on the landing gear and so forth. so, fuel is a major part of the load and so, by burning up or dumping, if they were able to, by burning up that fuel, you lighten the load. when it does come down and perhaps, the gear, stricken though it might be, is going be to be able to do most or all of its job. megyn: what would they normally do at an airport in a situation like this as we take ....
What you don t want is the rear gear collapsing and the wing tips coming down and striking one of the fuel tanks on the tip of that lear jet. megyn: just as we look the at the plane and you can see the bubble on the wing, that s the fuel tank, jon? that s the fuel tanks on this design of the jet. megyn: looks like they re going back up and it s another fly-by. stand by one second because we ve got trace with breaking news on this, trace. reporter: i just wanted to jump in here quickly megyn and say what the helicopter pilot, monitoring him, he s unclear if this is the exact plane. we ve seen this plane go on it seems all indications this is the plane we re looking at and kind of going by the tower and getting a number of fly-byes, retracting the landing gear and bringing it back up again and we wanted to point out and we have no idea, the helicopter pilot for ktvi who is covering this, he s unsure if this is the exact plane having the landing difficulty and going back to when ....
Either left or right, however, they ll be able to, i think, control any. and keep it pretty much on the runway. i don t i m not worried about that at all and if they do lower the nose without the nose gear down, there could be sparks, a slight danger of fire. looks like everything is down and they should be okay. megyn: this doesn t scare you. no. megyn: everybody is concerned watching something like that, but as airplane problems go, you don t view this as potentially very severe one? no, if the plane is able to fly and keep the shiny side up as we like to say, and i see most of the gear is down, i think everything s going to turn out just fine. megyn: so, they ll use this gear and they ll use the tires and not land the plane on its belly? no, we would much rather use tires than go for the belly landing. and way back in the old days they use todd to put the foam o the runway and land in the foam, but with that practice, also ....
Normally, you get three green. they might have gotten a red indication, which brought into their mind and wondering if all the gear were down and locked and in the right position. so doing that fly-by and what i saw on the screen there, everything looked okay, they still might be having a problems with a microswitch, a wire being loose, bulbs out knowing what the gear are doing. the they re probably running the checklist and looking over how much fuel they have after landing weight and real if they need any gear down, especially the main gear, it will be a normal landing and what they ll do then, arrow dynamic breaking and slow down before they put the nose down. megyn: what we saw a moment ago when the aircraft got closer to the runway and closer to the camera was landing gear did come down. it looked like, i mean, to a lay person, it looked like everything came down, but the report was just that the front ....
Hold lear jets as lear jets go. still building them today. megyn: you re talking about the jet blue incident and that happened at this airport? no, that was happening in l.a. trace was reminding me of that. i can t remember which airport it it happened at. megyn: there s video of it. there it is, that s what happens, that s what it looks like your front wheel. it was twisted 90 degrees so the way it was supposed to be when it came in for a landing. so, obviously, that tire is not and there you see the sparks at that trace was referring to. megyn: how dangerous is that when you ve got wing tip fuel tanks as opposed to where they are in this plane? sparks and fire are never a good thing around an aircraft, but better that the gear meld in this particular situation and kept the belly of the plane um. the worst of the situation in this situation that we re talking about is the potential for one of the main gear, left or right rear gear, to fail, because then the plane lurches ....