Whoa!! 😱 Oh my goodness! I'm so glad they landed safely and it was uneventful! I miss watching your live show, Peter! Hope you have been staying dry!! Be well my friend! 💛
It appeared though that they retracted the gear right after departing SFO. Also, a replay of the ATC indicated the pilots had no indication in the cockpit that there was a problem. They found out from ATC.
Peter you were the first person I thought of when I saw this breaking news. I was working and couldn't tune in but look forward to seeing the video. I'm sure this is the best footage out there so I hope you get some recognition for your hard work. *Thank you L.A. Flights!*
I swear, every stream there is something just unbelievable! Not that I want to see something like THIS, but I'm glad Peter is here to give us the info as it happens!
Landing in LA makes sense due to facilities. However, looks like the wheel or something from inside the wheel well led to wheel falling off. Could have been midair tire explosion or similar.
Was the reason for landing at LAX and not SFO to burn off fuel and even more fuel with reels down ? And is there a protocol or threshold for the necessity of fuel dumping ?
When the maximum landing weight of the aircraft is greater than the max take off weight, then you have to either dump or burn off fuel to get down to max landing weight.
Thank you for the coverage that was cool to watch. Unless you’re a pilot or former pilot of a triple 7 loaded with people and fuel might I suggest if you can’t say something positive don’t say anything at all. I also appreciated the footage of the emergency response teams, who still proudly fly the American flag
No, the crew did retract the landing gears after the plane took off at SFO. Oh BTW, the wheel that fell of was one of the steering wheels at the left main landing gear
Wow! So cool you guys caught this. I presume they don’t retract the landing gear because they can’t know the extent of the damage to the gear and don’t want to potentially damage the wheel wells/ body of the aircraft? Someone will correct me, I’m sure!
If you look closely there is a red streamer hanging from the same landing gear. This streamer is attached to LANDING GEAR PINS which are used when maintenance is being done. If the those landing gear pins are left installed the gear will not be able to retract. This sounds like a maintenance error.
@@julioguerreroalvarado9810 Pushback crew would've seen that main landing gear flag on their final walkaround before pushing. I would say the tow crew getting that plane out of the runway placed the gear pins for safety while towing. But yeah you are probably right about maintenance error on the wheel install.
United had 4 incidents this week already. 757 engine failure, 737 engine catching fire, 777 gear tire loss, and now MAX gear collapse. This is such a terrible week for United.😰
This trouble was covered in the news of Japanese TV broadcasts because the plane to KIX(Osaka) from SFO. The news picked a scene when this plane took off SFO and a tire fall in down the car parking area of SFO. It's unbelievable I felt. After that, the plane arrived at KIX in the midnight (Japan time) by alternative plane from LAX.
This was not expected to land in Japan in 'just a few hours', the trip takes 14 hours. Which is why it had 5 tanker trucks full of fuel. Glad everyone was safe. Go Boeing!
Do we know who decided to divert to LAX and why? (Guessing United made the call?) I know both LAX and SFO are United hubs and have maintenance. Both have long runways, with LAX slightly longest. Was it to burn off fuel? I know they had to close the runway at SFO for a short time to inspect the runway. Any thought to replacement aircraft and/or flight crews for passengers to continue to Japan. Just curious.
OH GOD - love your channel and thank you- it is a great channel to tune into with no stress. I am so happy you got this footage because AIRLINES are very careful of what they let out. THE bottom line is the bottom line- I think airlines are taking shortcuts- NOW I could be wrong- but doesn't it make sense with a HORRIBLE economy, everything costing a bloody fortune, and who knows??? I have never heard of this happening before. BUT why NOW A lot of safety issues with planes. I also heard that United American and Delta have OLD planes- does anyone know how old this one was. Thank you so much for everything you do. And as always I will be giving the thumbs up.. PS cant wait when you go to NEW york, you always have the best seat.!!!
What's going on? A United flight in Houston crashed on the runway in Houston, AND United going to Fort Myers, FL had engine in flames today. How does one airlines have 3 major issues in a single day that could have caused great damage and cost lives??
Clustering of random outcomes is a normal feature of statistics. If at the other extreme everything was equally spread out (e.g. a coin toss which unswervingly alternated between heads and tails) that would be the opposite of random: Deterministic.
@@marcmcreynolds2827 That's meaningless without the data set to determine frequency of outlier events accounting for stochasticity. What can't be ignored is it potentially led to the lost of hundreds of lives. These are companies that supposedly practice 6sigma quality standards which means there should be near zero defects in manufacturing and maintenance. Will it take people dying to wake people up to the egregious practices in the airline industry raising prices, cutting costs? My last flight stewardess on United looked like she was clearly over 220 lbs.
@@danmacarthur8944 Perhaps a more intuitive way for me to present the idea is to ask why it matters that three events happened in the space of one day? If it was instead one of them this week and two last week (or month), would that really alter whatever the safety situation is? A random cluster gets lay peoples' attention, but it's a change in the overall rate averaged over some period of time which matters in determining whether incidents are unconnected and within an expected frequency, or suggestive of non-random factors which merit attention. What we have in this case are 1) Pilots in Texas who were asked to expedite vacating of the runway and went a bit too fast for wet conditions in trying to please ATC (not a crash); 2) What appears to be a garden-variety compressor stall (not an engine fire as was widely reported); 3) A fairly rare but not not very serious wheel rim failure (not a big deal after wheel rim strength requirements were increased in the early 1980s). If I had been on that flight, knowing what I know as a landing gear engineer, I wouldn't have been the least bit worried for my safety. As long as there was no indication of hydraulic leakage, I would have even been fine with continuing on to Japan, at which point we would land with about twice as many tires as needed to do so safely. Despite the drama which most people may have felt was present, there is nothing at all nail-biting about a 777 landing on eleven tires.
I'm more interested in where the wheel is. Took off from SFO, not exactly a rural area lol hopefully the wheel landed in the bay and not on a building or into traffic.
