TWA1985 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 636 posts, RR: 0 Posted (11 months 3 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 15187 times:
This is not a good week for American Eagle at O'Hare. ABC News in Chicago just reported that an Eagle jet veered off the runway at O'Hare. No injuries were reported and the suspected cause is landing gear problems.
TWA1985 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 636 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (11 months 3 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 15059 times:
ABC is now reporting that Eagle Flight 4069 to Tulsa reported mechanical issues shortly after take-off. The flight requested an emergency landing and returned to O'Hare, where it slid off the runway after landing. All 31 passengers reported no injuries and were bused to the terminal.
United787 From United States of America, joined May 2005, 2345 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (11 months 3 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 14203 times:
Quoting TWA1985 (Reply 1): ABC is now reporting that Eagle Flight 4069 to Tulsa reported mechanical issues shortly after take-off. The flight requested an emergency landing and returned to O'Hare, where it slid off the runway after landing. All 31 passengers reported no injuries and were bused to the terminal.
Which runway is that? It is way off the runway and perpendicular to it unless it came from another runway...
"...the plane had been taken out of service for a similar mechanical issue on Wednesday, and was “thoroughly inspected by our maintenance team at ORD before being redeployed.”"
Always looking for the longest route with the most transfers.
flyingbronco05 From United States of America, joined May 2002, 3838 posts, RR: 3 Reply 4, posted (11 months 3 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 13988 times:
It landed on runway 10. With the message they had, there was no way to steer once on the ground since the steering with rudder only turns 5-7 degrees.
tp1040 From United States of America, joined Apr 2011, 157 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (11 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 13828 times:
I was on an EMB 145 when the pilot lost the ability to control the nose wheel. Never could find the problem, but had to eventually replace the whole assembly.
This is little event happened at touchdown, just when the nose touched, the plane veered to the right. Out of 150 feet width, we had about 20 feet left before runway departure. Due to some skillful piloting skills, he got it back to the center line, then it veered right again at about 60 kts. He got it back and quickly stopped.
Reviewed the situation and decided to taxi, it happened two more times. Almost seemed like the nose gear turned on its own.
Never got a chance to talk to the pilot. He was too buy filling out paperwork and was very irritated. (I made phone call or two) I know the plane was taken out of service. They spent 3 days trying to duplicate it. They had it happen one more time, but could not pinpoint the issue. Maintenance's solution was to replace the whole thing.
DLX737200 From United States of America, joined May 2001, 1850 posts, RR: 23 Reply 6, posted (11 months 3 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 10143 times:
Quoting tp1040 (Reply 5): I was on an EMB 145 when the pilot lost the ability to control the nose wheel. Never could find the problem, but had to eventually replace the whole assembly.
I too was on a 145 once that had a similar problem. I was working the ramp the night before and maintenance had been taxiing it all over the airfield trying to get it to show problems. The next morning, I boarded that plane for a flight to VPS. We got on the runway, throttled up and the plane lunged left, then right, then we stopped. We sat there a few minutes and managed to taxi back to the gate where the flight cancelled.
The public: They always know better, even though they often know nothing
9lflyguy From United States of America, joined Jan 2010, 107 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (11 months 3 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 10117 times:
THERE ARE NO CHUTES ON THE ERJ-145!!!! God the drove me crazy in the video she said that three times. The news really needs to stop dramatizing these events..... Plus planes report mechanical issues everyday. No reason to scare the public with the major over dramatization of this non-event. Plane skidded of the run way. No one was hurt. Enough said....
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Quoting tp1040 (Reply 5): I was on an EMB 145 when the pilot lost the ability to control the nose wheel. Never could find the problem, but had to eventually replace the whole assembly.
Quoting DLX737200 (Reply 6): I too was on a 145 once that had a similar problem.
I'm usually afraid to fly on an ERJ 135-145 because I hear about these problems too much. It's only a matter of time until it becomes a serious problem.
pilotpip From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3082 posts, RR: 12 Reply 10, posted (11 months 3 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 2788 times:
Quoting PHX787 (Reply 9):
I'm usually afraid to fly on an ERJ 135-145 because I hear about these problems too much. It's only a matter of time until it becomes a serious problem.
Yet you'll probably get on a 737 despite all the rudder issues that KILLED people in the 80s...
Embraer's jets have one of the better safety records in the industry which is no small feat considering how hard these planes are flown.
johnmke From United States of America, joined Jun 2009, 70 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (11 months 3 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 2683 times:
Quoting 9lflyguy (Reply 7): The news really needs to stop dramatizing these events.....
yes the news lady is not an aviation enthusiast like we might be, or have the aviation background or knowledge but they report what they think they know. I wouldn't knock some local news person, national level reporting with "aviation experts" differant story.
Dreadnought From United States of America, joined Feb 2008, 7779 posts, RR: 22 Reply 12, posted (11 months 3 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 2680 times:
Quoting johnmke (Reply 11): I would say any day a plane skids off a runway would be a dramatic event for me, i don't know what airport you fly into where that is a norm.
You know what they say - any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
DBQ From United States of America, joined Apr 2009, 51 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (11 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1710 times:
Question: I was once on a similar Eagle plane and we had an inflight mechanical problem. We were 30 minutes out of OKC for ORD. Pilot turned around but before we landed we did some flying to lighten fuel load. Wonder why they would do that here. Or maybe they did? Maybe gear would not retract?
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