round and around. it has been circling now for almost an hour, almost a full hour. there is no information about who is on board this plane at the moment. but it has been circling there for an hour. it made at least three passes, three passes by the airport, to get a look at its landing gear. the pilot reported a problem with the landing gear deploying. they then went down for a visual check. they took a look at it as close as they could from the air traffic control tower. it looked like the landing gear was off to the side. so they decided that it might have to make an emergency landing. go ahead. john, if i can actually interrupt here, we re getting information from the faa saying this is a leer jet 45, reported problems with the landing gear door. at this point, it is possible that they might be troubleshooting. and also trying to come into the airport as normal. that s the latest information from the faa there. reported problems with the landing gear door, which is why we may hav
possibly the pilot is trying to work out the situation here. and airport preparing as well. we know the previous airport they had ambulances on the tarmac there getting ready. it is going to be the same case at this st. louis lambert field. so for right now, we re all sort of in a wait and see mode as the pilots are talking to air traffic controllers and trying to figure out best course of action in dealing with the problem at hand, brooke. we have, thank you, tory. we have dan gourd on the phone now. dan is a commercial airline pilot. full transparency, you have never flown one of these lear jets, but you have been involved in emergency landings. so tell me if you are the pilot on board this plane, what are you doing likely right at this moment? hi, brooke. this has been going on for a short while now. really when something goes wrong, first thing you do is you reference your emergency checklist and start trying to determine whether the problem is actual, whether it is an
a possible emergency landing. that is a leer jet. we do not know who is on board, but we re told as many as eight passengers are there. it looks to be ascending again, rising. that would indicate they re not happy with the landing pattern or with the gear that they have, the equipment they have right there. tory this is now the second time we have seen them go down with some kind of gear deployed and rise up again. any sense of what the procedures might be or why they might be doing this? well, john, i can tell you they are probably obviously talking with airport officials on the ground there, trying to determine the best course of action here. as you mentioned, we do know they have ambulances on the tarmac there, about four ambulances, also some of the safety equipment already out, definitely trying to make sure this landing is as safe as possible. information, though, from the airport is that eight people are on that leer jet. there is some sort of problem with the landing gear. so
my understanding is that it has a crew of two on it, so is it possible that there could be two pilots on board here and six passengers? we know that eight total are on that lear jet supposedly. yes. it s big enough airplane to do eight passengers and two crew. but it is hard to say. i mean, it would it is an aircraft that is required to have two pilots, to be certified to fly legally. it is not likely wouldn t be legal, certainly to have one pilot on board. we re talking about a flight crew of two. and it is a newer version of the lear. dates back to the mid- 90s. so it actually can handle a crew of two and upwards of nine passengers. so this is a fairly full aircraft, which takes me back to that initial thought about how much fuel might have been on board. it is quite possible depending on how they were loaded and so
so you would continue to troubleshoot, see if you can go through any sort of manual backup procedures, fly again until you are in a situation where your fuel is appropriate, and then you just begin the approach and it really, at that point, becomes just like any other approach, except at that final moment when you re flaring, it is just a little bit lower and you want to come in as slowly as you possibly can at that point. miles, let me jump in. we re getting a little bit more information from this st. louis airplane here. they re saying specifically it is this lear jet, this lear jet 45, with a nose gear problem. what does that tell you? nose gear problem? well, of course, you know, you can it puts an interesting scenario. you might in theory you might have both of obviously a tricycle, the main landing gear underneath the wing, the nose,