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Re: Emergency landing at ben gurion
« Reply #40 on: May 23, 2011, 01:35:49 PM »
Quote from: damaxer91 on May 23, 2011, 10:34:33 AM

What an awful job by YWN dramatizing the story and scaring the %$&* out of everyone especially when they were completely unaware of the facts. Until I emailed them, they thought it was a flight from Berlin. El Al has never flown a wide-body 777 to Berlin before. Most importantly, they made it seems that there was a good chance that the passengers "wouldn't make it". That was never the case. Planes land all the time with a malfunctioning wheel.

Decent point, but did you see the amount of ambulances at Ben Gurion?
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Re: Emergency landing at ben gurion
« Reply #41 on: May 23, 2011, 01:51:31 PM »
This 772 might be one of Elal's newest from Boeing. They bought two or three 744s from Singapore that are older.
YWN did a good job of drumming up readership.
One of the warning light went off and it was decided that they should wait for daylight so a visual check can be done to assess the situation of the gear.
The plane touched down with all intact, had there been an issue with one of the gears an adjusted landing would have been necessary.
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Re: Emergency landing at ben gurion
« Reply #42 on: May 23, 2011, 01:53:50 PM »
Quote from: Bp on May 22, 2011, 10:50:23 PM
Got it from a BBM group.
From a Friend on the Plane:
We left tall aviv to NY at 1:30AM (6:30PM NY time) right after takeoff we felt the plane was not ok, it was shaking and make very unusual vibration, after a few min the pilot called all the flight attendance to the cabin then he announced that due to a technical problem with the aircraft (he didn't say what it is) we have to return to the airport, but 1st has to dump the fuel, after 20 min he said that the main landing gear is stuck and he is consulting with the airport what to do next, and after 20 min he announced that the airport decided to wait till sunrise so the engineers on the ground can visually see what is wrong with the aircraft and it will take till 5:30AM to see what the problem is with the landing gear, he also said that we have more then enough fuel to stay in the air for a while, we where circulating
80 miles from isreal above sea for 5 hour
the whole time we heard and felt heavy vibration and noise from the center of the aircraft where the landing gear is locate

Once the sun came up we saw military aircraft coming close to our aircraft they where circulating below of our plane to inspect the condition of the landing gear.
Then they reported back to us that it is BH safe to land.
Bh we landed safely.
There is 100s of fire truck arounds us 
Quote from: plane.love on May 23, 2011, 01:51:31 PM
This 772 might be one of Elal's newest from Boeing. They bought two or three 744s from Singapore that are older.
YWN did a good job of drumming up readership.
One of the warning light went off and it was decided that they should wait for daylight so a visual check can be done to assess the situation of the gear.
The plane touched down with all intact, had there been an issue with one of the gears an adjusted landing would have been necessary.

so why was it making so much noise? Or was it??
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Re: Emergency landing at ben gurion
« Reply #43 on: May 23, 2011, 02:01:08 PM »
I have a hard time believing there was a constant noise. The issue seemed to have been with the MLG retracting which could have made some noise especially if it was attempted multiple times.
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Re: Emergency landing at ben gurion
« Reply #44 on: May 23, 2011, 02:01:53 PM »
apparently  yeshiva world was not the only ones making a big deal...... :o
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Re: Emergency landing at ben gurion
« Reply #45 on: May 23, 2011, 02:27:59 PM »
@Zeee......
Obviously Elal will play it down.
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Re: Emergency landing at ben gurion
« Reply #46 on: May 23, 2011, 02:32:32 PM »
Quote from: Dan on May 23, 2011, 10:24:08 AM
Now that's a different story.
Personally I've never flown El Al, so I can't comment.  I've flown CO, DL, LX, and SN to Israel so far.
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Re: Emergency landing at ben gurion
« Reply #47 on: May 23, 2011, 02:34:34 PM »
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Re: Emergency landing at ben gurion
« Reply #48 on: May 23, 2011, 02:35:28 PM »
Quote from: Bp on May 22, 2011, 10:50:23 PM
Got it from a BBM group.
From a Friend on the Plane:
We left tall aviv to NY at 1:30AM (6:30PM NY time) right after takeoff we felt the plane was not ok, it was shaking and make very unusual vibration, after a few min the pilot called all the flight attendance to the cabin then he announced that due to a technical problem with the aircraft (he didn't say what it is) we have to return to the airport, but 1st has to dump the fuel, after 20 min he said that the main landing gear is stuck and he is consulting with the airport what to do next, and after 20 min he announced that the airport decided to wait till sunrise so the engineers on the ground can visually see what is wrong with the aircraft and it will take till 5:30AM to see what the problem is with the landing gear, he also said that we have more then enough fuel to stay in the air for a while, we where circulating
80 miles from isreal above sea for 5 hour
the whole time we heard and felt heavy vibration and noise from the center of the aircraft where the landing gear is locate

Once the sun came up we saw military aircraft coming close to our aircraft they where circulating below of our plane to inspect the condition of the landing gear.
Then they reported back to us that it is BH safe to land.
Bh we landed safely.
There is 100s of fire truck arounds us
Ok lets say there was problems with the gear, but why was the plane SHAKING and making UNUSUAL NOISE ??
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Re: Emergency landing at ben gurion
« Reply #49 on: May 23, 2011, 02:41:05 PM »
Quote from: Dan on May 23, 2011, 02:34:34 PM
Huh?  No I haven't.
Ohh, thought you wrote SQ
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Re: Emergency landing at ben gurion
« Reply #50 on: May 24, 2011, 09:55:00 AM »
Interviews with passengers from the flight:

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Re: Emergency landing at ben gurion
« Reply #51 on: May 24, 2011, 04:16:35 PM »
Quote from: AsherO on May 24, 2011, 09:55:00 AM
Interviews with passengers from the flight:



Is this supposed to be a joke?
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Re: Emergency landing at ben gurion
« Reply #52 on: May 24, 2011, 04:21:31 PM »
Quote from: damaxer91 on May 24, 2011, 04:16:35 PM
Is this supposed to be a joke?

Because?
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Re: Emergency landing at ben gurion
« Reply #53 on: May 24, 2011, 04:22:42 PM »
Quote from: AsherO on May 24, 2011, 04:21:31 PM
Because?

I found myself laughing most of the time

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