Ground off the tires & wheels, all safe. No problems.

[karlrschneider]

:D

[MindPilot]

1. standing and cheering here!!!!

that was fucking BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!

[fudge stripe cookays]

2. That pilot needs a freaking medal!

You could hear collective gasps across the nation as the flames erupted off the tires!

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[Kenroy]

4. it was amazing

That pilot is going to become famous.

[TahitiNut]

7. I'd fly with that pilot any day! Awesome! Picture perfect. Textbook!

He couldn't have done it any better, imho.

[MindPilot]

5. Yep!! Booze & hookers all around!

Now the major concern is to make sure the nose gear doesn't collape while the people get out.

[RoyGBiv]

3. Since they seem safe ...

I have to say, watching that grind away like that -- something straight out of a cartoon -- was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

I cannot believe it even stayed completely straight, directly on the center line. Those pilots need a serious raise.

OnEdit: I had no idea how much stress this had built up in me until just now. I'm worried about family in the way of Rita, worried about people in New Orleans, worried about all the rest of us and what's happening with everything right now. I just don't know if I could have handled one more horrid tragedy.

This weekend is going to suck. I am so thankful they are down okay.

[karlrschneider]

6. Well, I'd just say they were doing their job. I had a similar thing happe

to my plane (well, my company's plane) years ago. I'm glad they didn't get crazy and send everyone down the slides...that would probably have hurt some people.

[RoyGBiv]

8. That's why they need a raise ...

If you prove your competence, that should be recognized. :-)

:toast:

[TahitiNut]

10. Naw... the CEO gets all the money for worrying.

Yeah. Right. :eyes: I wish we'd nationalize the damned airlines! Fire the freaking executives.

[MindPilot]

9. Spoken like a true aviator

But considering how the airlines treat their people, the pilots will probably have their pay docked for being late.

[karlrschneider]

12. Or get charged for the tires...

:D

I think JB is a pretty good employer from what I hear. I never flew for an airline, only corps. It's a very different world.

[caligirl]

14. Wait, in the corps they have these landings with bombs on board.

Different for sure.

[newswolf56]

11. To pilot and co-pilot: Well Done! (Pucker-factor in the cockpit...

most have been off the scale.) Thanks be to the Higher Power(s), too -- whatever benevolent Name(s) one invokes: few atheists at a time like this.

[OhioChick]

13. Nice job by the pilot

:toast:

[cmd]

15. Question for you, karl

As the gear hit the white line flames shot out. In between the lines the flames lessened. Was the runway paint accelerating the flames? My husband, the retired firechief, observed this. Just wondering what you thought. cmd

[karlrschneider]

16. It looked like the aft tire blew out & caught fire, probably from the heat

of the rim scraping on the runway. You can see from the video the other (left?/front) one didn't burn, it ended up lying in front of what was left of the nose strut. I seriously doubt any paint was involved.

[cmd]

18. I did observe all that

but also noticed the intensity increased every time the wheels hit one of the white lines. Mr. cmd is trained to notice burn patterns and pointed this out. Just wondered what you thought. Thanks.

[karlrschneider]

19. I was trying to see if the c/l paint was gouged up behind the strut but

couldn't really tell...but I suppose that some of it got heated up & oxidized by the scraping steel. He may very well be right.

[blondeatlast]

17. That was a thing of beauty indeed. Kudos to the pilots, the controllers,

and perhaps the Airbus people as well.

Brilliant work--bravo!