757 plane on approach emergency landing at BOS live now on MSNBC

[karlschneider]

maybe landing gear trouble...

edit:

okay now they say in holding pattern, going thru checklist...

[HereSince1628]

1. lil' prayer for souls on board....

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[karlschneider]

2. Looks to me like the left main gear is dangling at an angle...

Maybe on final now...can't really tell. Video is live.
(An ATA airlines 757)

[MnFats]

3. this happens more often than you would think...

....but it's still unnerving....and you just never know...so i agree, with the prayer bit...can't find it on radio or online...will you update?

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. The rear left

gear looks funny? Supposedly, this plane should be able to manually lower the landing gear if they need to. Let's hope that's true.

[Best_man23]

5. On the ground

Thank goodness.

[karlschneider]

8. Yep made it fine. Great.

I've made 2 landings with gear problems, one was just a burned out "down indicator" light, one was a broken nose gear linkage. Scuffed up the nose a bit on that one. ;-)

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Safe landing

Whew!

[rocktivity]

10. Originally posted by DoYouEverWonder

Safe landing--Whew!

Great news--but not for MSNBC's ratings!


rocknation

[RobertSeattle]

7. Had a thought

This would be an alternate use of those "on call" fighter planes - they could launch in a hurry and check on planes having problems that require a "looksee" from the outside.

[karlschneider]

9. It's pretty hard to tell any more from another plane than you can by

looking at it from the ground if they make a low & slow pass over an airport...I believe I heard someone say that had already done that.
But it doesn't really much matter either way - if the gear's broke it ain't gonna be fixed and ya gotta land eventually. Just assume the worst and hope for the best. ;-)

[soleft]

11. hmmmmmmmmm

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