I would recommend United Airlines Flight 173. A DC-8 ran out of fuel in a holding pattern while the crew troubleshot a gear indication problem. It’s an excellent example of CRM gone bad.

http://www.airdisaster.com/investigations/ua173.shtml

Originally posted by Gaurav
For some bizzare reason, my favourite US city is Detroit.

That is bizzarre! 😀

Lexington, Kentucky for it’s rolling hills and nice people.

New York, New York. The city so nice they named it twice. There’s a lot to do and it has really cleaned up in the last 10-15 years.

Originally posted by tenthije
All I know is that it is not necessary for both the main and the nose gear to be on the ground for the trust reversers to be deployed. I have seen this on many planes including the A340 (pic), B767, B737 and more.

Most aircraft will allow you to “pop the buckets” and even spool them up when you have weight on the main wheels. I know the earlier models of the EMB145 aircraft won’t let you spool the engines up unless the nose is on the ground.

That Russian aircraft has no weight on any of the wheels. Perhaps it run through the Radio Altimeter? At 100 feet you can deploy the buckets. 🙂 As wysiwyg said, it’s a sure way to have a rapid decent.

That aircraft is landing with the thrust reversers deployed. Isn’t that called an emergency on other aircraft?

I have safety cards from the Continental DC-9, MD-80, 737-200, 737-300, 737-500 and Continental Express B-1900D, ATR-42, EMB-120 and EMB-145 as well as tons of other company trinkets from over the last 5 years. There are also aircraft manuals for COEX B1900D, ATR42/72, EMB-120 and EMB-145 on my shelf. The girlfriend has a Continental 737NG manual and Northwest A320 manual too. I also have some posters for the 100th ERJ delivery as well as the poster they used when they were the launch customer.

It was all aquired through legit means. 🙂 A lot of it was being thrown out as the different fleet types were being retired and the other stuff is from knowing the right people.

One of the AF Concordes has been donated to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington DC. It’s been delivered and is sitting on the ramp waiting to be moved inside.

I just got off the phone with a friend of mine based in Dulles and all flights were cancelled after 1:00 PM. The winds/rain aren’t too bad yet but I guess the big stuff is suppose to hit by 4:00 PM.