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Leah: a fox news report, if you ve been watching, we have been talking about a virgin atlantic plane that was circling gatwick airport with some landing gear problems. this was on a flight where it was taking off and going to las vegas loaded up with fuel. there are reports from telegraph saying that it was a right landing gear problem of some sort. we ve been talking about the fact that this plane would have had some time based on the fuel, to go through that emergency situation really work through the problem and figure out the best way to come in and land, and you re seeing a picture of it on the ground now. emergency crews have arrived on the scene. no word on exactly what that problem was no word confirming if it was indeed, a right landing gear problem. at this point it looks as though things are pretty settled on the ground though, trace. trace trace they landed safely and the people are clearly going to be delayed from going to vegas, but i m sure they re ....
Might be wrong with the landing gear. and then they may go around for a while and see if they can drop as much fuel as possible because if it is a landing gear problem what you want to do is you want to land as light as possible on the longest runway possible. if it s a nose gear problem we saw this a few years ago in los angeles with that jetblue plane where the nose gear was actually turned. we re not speculating because we simply do not know what s wrong with the landing gear, but that plane dropped all its fuel, flewing if hours and touched flew for fours for hours and touched down very gently. very tricky to land those things. we re still waiting to find out exactly what s wrong with this plane, but it is a virgin atlantic flight 43 from gatwick and when we get live picture, we ll bring these to you. leah: we are also seeing reports from the telegraph that it may have been its right wing landing gear that failed to come down, and that presents a different ....
That will be made by specially maintenance personnel and determine what the best course of action to deal with the passengers. let me ask you this, john. in the last few seconds we have i think the passengers on the plane knowing the unfortunate things that happened in flights and other planes do they know what is happening. the pilot telling them we have a landing gear problem and we re making a nonstandard landing? i can imagine virgin atlantic might have monitors people can watch the news. what is pilot telling the passengers before they land it? the times i ve had to make an abnormal landing, the thing you tell the passengers is the truth. ladies and gentlemen, we ve had a problem. one of the landing gear. we re going to return back and make a landing in london. you may see a lot of equipment and trucks around the airport. this is being done as a precaution. we don t anticipate there s going to be any problem. and you always level with the passengers. you tell them the truth so ....
Jet that run into laguardia last night. now come the questions of what went wrong and that is where trace gallinger picks up. the experts say it is unlikely that the pilot knew he had a landing gear problem before setting the nose down. witnesses saw the thing coming over in the end, said that when it came in, everything appeared to be fine. here s one, listen. it looked normal, yeah. it looked normal, all three wheels were down. if the pilot knew he had a nose problem he could have held it up and sat it down. it is coming in at 125 miles per hour and theinose gear collapses and kids 2500 feet to the position off of the runway and ....