Hey,
Some of you might have been at MAN today and would have seen it, but if you haven’t read on!
Around 3.30 G-FCLH (I could be travelling on this very aircraft to Jerez!) made an emergency landing on 24L. It was operating TCX 75K (GLA-YYZ). It had quite a bad hydraulic leak and one of the 2 main gear doors were sticking out. Anyway it actually made a very smooth landing (one of the better ones I have seen from Tommy Cook! ;))
Quite a lot of smoke was coming from the main gear (the B757 only has brakes on the main gear) and the pilot reported that he had hot brakes but he didn’t even use maximum brakes to assist stopping the aircraft. It was leaking quite a bit of fluid down the runway and all departures were stopped for around 15 mins while it safely taxied down the runway and the fluid was cleaned.
Anyway it stayed at MAN for a good few hours and later departed back to GLA as TCX 75K. The strange thing I noticed that the main gears took a hell of a time to retract. The gears were retracted normally on departure, and they only cleaned up by Altrincham (1500 feet or so!) :eek:.
Something you don’t see everyday for sure. Anyone else saw it?
Cheers
Flex 35
By: wysiwyg - 4th July 2005 at 09:41
No like the Airbus it’s all or nothing. On the A343 however the alternate extension will not drop the center gear as this could puncture the fuselage if landing with one main gear leg not extended (as in the G-VSKY scenario at LHR). The A346 does drop the center gear as it can cope with the partial main gear scenario.
By: wysiwyg - 3rd July 2005 at 22:03
Not really that surprising if it’s had a hydrualic leak, is it? 🙂
The B7572 has three hydrualic systems? What system is normally used to retract/extend the gear? Is there an alternate source?
I assume that each gear can be manually gravity dropped independantly, as can be seen by only one gear door remaining open? 🙂
IIRC the left system does most of the work on the 757. There is no alternate system for retraction but the alternate extension uses fluid trapped in a standpipe of the left system to release the gear uplocks, then allowing gravity to do its thing. Alternate extension would leave the gear doors open.
By: Flex 35 - 3rd July 2005 at 10:35
Not really that surprising if it’s had a hydrualic leak, is it? 🙂
The B7572 has three hydrualic systems? What system is normally used to retract/extend the gear? Is there an alternate source?
I assume that each gear can be manually gravity dropped independantly, as can be seen by only one gear door remaining open? 🙂
I assume they had sorted the problem out on the ground @ MAN, it was at the gate for 3 hours. Yes it wasn’t really that suprising that the gears took a long time to retract, but for someone who hasn’t seen this before it was interesting.
Flex 35
By: bmi-star - 3rd July 2005 at 08:43
Was nice to see 24L getting a bit of rubber that end :p
By: LBARULES - 2nd July 2005 at 22:16
Thanks for the account Flex, backed up Matts photos well :).
By: Future Pilot - 2nd July 2005 at 22:11
I know Matt (MANAIRPORTMAD!!) saw it and got pics.
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