breaking news. back to san antonio international airport where four people onboard a beechcraft bonanza are sweating it out. the left main landing gear will not apparently come down. the pilot has made several low passes across the runway, trying to get the gear to drop. normally there are redundant systems that will get your gear down in cases like this, put so far no joy. the pilot has not been able to get his left main landing gear down, and so far, no solutions to the problem. they have been burning off fuel, trying to reduce the possible of a fire. lea gabrielle is with us, a former pilot and something of an expert. what s next.
order offender with no gang ties and no rap sheets. they have to be serving a longer sentence than they would get for the same crime today, all of that. officials say it is aimed mainly at drug offenders especially those serving sentences under the old mandatory guidelines. the teenager who spent hours in a jet wheel well spent hours inside without anybody spotting him. that s what the officials are telling the associated press. this happened at the airport. this 15-year-old boy scaled a fence and climbed up into the plane s landing gear. and airlines flight took off for maui, 5 1/2 hours the trip took. keep in mind the wheel well is a pretty cramped hiding spot. here s what it s like with the landing gear down, unlike a plane s cabin, this area is not protected from the freezing high altitude temperatures and not
said to be spotted. we are on auto pilot. let me show you what happens. what we believe is you run out of fuel which means then that auto pilot goes off. there would be an alarm. that s just the way it is. you can shut it down and mitch can take us down. the plane would do a gradual descent. it doesn t mean it was on auto pilot. it was built to just slowly and evenly descend? absolutely. we will keep going down. these are the alarms you start to get. the plane would be sensing it thinks it s landing which it wouldn t be. it s putting alarms out, saying you are too low. pull up. it will put out other alarms saying you want the landing gear down, don t you? we are assuming here that the
it is in the water. tail section appears to be on the front end of the runway. this is a fox news coverage of a plane crash in san francisco at san francisco international airport. i m gregg jarrett in new york. there you see part of the debris field from an asiana, a boeing 777 that begin in seoul, south korea and destination, san francisco international airport. it happened at about 11:20 this morning when this jetliner crash landed. it was in the process of landing. according to a witness that spoke with ktvu in san francisco the witness said the tail of the plane came off before the plane had its landing gear down,
originated because when they put the landing gear down, one of the indications didn t appear correctly, which led them to doubt whether that nose gear was actually down and locked. i see. it is entirely possible. so is it possible, dan, the light could be wrong and that the landing gear on the nose is down? absolutely. it could be anything from the lightbulb in the actual light has burnt out, it could be the microswitch that triggers that light to come on in the cockpit is broken, it could be worst case scenario, unlikely, but it could be the actual nose gear isn t down and locked. there is probably four or five things it really could be. but more than likely, the simplest answer is probably the right one. i can t help but think about the people on the plane. we know it was a private jet. if you re the pilot on board this plane and you make that decision, when you re heading into lambert field, to lamb dert st. louis international airport,