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Plane Crash In Poland: Boeing 767 From New Jersey Makes Emergency Landing In Warsaw (VIDEO)

Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 01/11/11 16:50 GMT Updated: 01/11/11 18:18 GMT

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A plane carrying 230 people from New Jersey has been forced to make an emergency landing in Warsaw airport, Poland, due to problems with its landing gear.

The Boeing 767 operated by Polish aircraft company LOT, circled around the airport for an hour and dropped excess fuel. Nearby buildings were evacuated and an emergency landing strip was prepared in case the plane crashed.

Emergency services rushed towards the plane as it belly landed on the runway. Smoke billowed up from beneath the plane and a small fire broke out. No one was hurt but Warsaw airport will reportedly be closed until Wednesday.

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A plane carrying 230 people from New Jersey has been forced to make an emergency landing in Warsaw airport, Poland, due to problems with its landing gear. The Boeing 767 operated by Polish aircraf...
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TXFF5000
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10:45 PM on 11/19/2011
This is a nice story about a hero Polish pilot who saved hundreds of lives.

Unfortunately a certain anti-Polish element of the media (at NBC-TV) got angry at this story that portrayed Polish people in a positive way, so they had their resident anti-Polish Bigot Seth Meyers make anti-Polish joke-slurs about the Polish pilot.

Seth Meyers insinuated that the "Polish Sully" has inferior intelligence and so do Polish people.

Its disgusting the FCC allows NBC-TV and Seth Meyers to keep bashing Polish people with a Nazi stereotype of Polish people.
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11:48 AM on 11/02/2011
It was a beautiful smooth landing. Kudos to the pilots.
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waldopepper
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10:09 PM on 11/01/2011
It is my understanding that in the case of a gear failure that gravity is the backup system. So that must have been quite the malfunction, for them to decide to leave the gear up like that. Nicely done by the flight crew.
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09:55 AM on 11/03/2011
I agree with you on the nice landing by the pilots, but they didn't "decide to leave the gear up". The landing gear was malfunctioning and could not be put down.
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waldopepper
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05:01 PM on 11/04/2011
Sorry, I do not think so. In the event of a malfunction, the gear can always be lowered, by the decision of the crew.

Even with a failure of some system the crew can always lower the gear by pressing a release and using GRAVITY ONLY. That use of gravity is the backup.

The fact that they did not rely on gravity suggests that a larger failure influenced their decision to not rely on mere gravity to lower the gear. Even with no power the gear will drop.

Goodness. I though I had written my original comment clearly enough to avoid such confusion.
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Marian27T
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09:22 PM on 11/01/2011
"Circled around"? You either circle an airport or you fly around it. Shame on you, Felicity Morse. You are supposed to be a writer.
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sillyfrog
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11:42 PM on 11/01/2011
Are you OK?
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Marian27T
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05:35 PM on 11/03/2011
Bad writing by "professional" writers, but that is not uncommon, it seems.
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09:21 PM on 11/01/2011
Well done by the pilots!
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09:05 PM on 11/01/2011
Kudos to the bravery of the pilot and crew for avoiding a tragic disaster!
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Beth OBrien
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04:52 PM on 11/01/2011
That pilot FTW
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