[MilCom] PACK 62 gear problem

[Ed Langworthy]

Update:

1446z  321.000
They seemed to have worked out the problem.  They had maintenance on the
phone with Boeing as they had the same problem once before.  After trying
some suggestions from HAMMER, they visually confirmed all gear are down
and locked.  They told PACK CONTROL they will head in soon.  They have 
19 souls on board and would like to know if they could get a bus and air
stairs out to get the passengers off ASAP after landing.  They will declare and
Emergency when 10 miles out so roll the fire trucks.

1456z  128.200
Working Boston Center letting them know they are getting ready for the descent
after their on plane briefing.

1500z
ZBW told him to descend to 11,000 ft.

1503z  125.525
Working Pease approach.  Inbound for the ILS, full stop.  Checked visually that
all gear are down and locked.

1515z  128.400
Working Pease tower inbound land, full stop.

That's it.  Hopefully they landed safely and everyone was ok.  Maybe Dave O' Brian
might have some visual confirmation of this??

Ed Langworthy
Scarborough, ME




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Langworthy" <jetcrafter at verizon.net>
To: "MilRadioComms" <MilRadioComms at yahoogroups.com>; "Milcom" <MilCom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:30 AM
Subject: [MilCom] PACK 62 gear problem


> 1420z
> PACK 62 took off with PACK 61 about an hour ago.  They noticed they had
> one of their main gear only half way up.  They turned back towards Pease while
> PACK 61 remained on coarse to AR-204 to meet up with OPEC 43.
> 
> 1423z
> Currently they are holding over SHOLS working with HAMMER on 321.000
> It seems the gear will go down but will not show level or locked.  When they
> retract, it won't fully retract and they get no indicators that it is retracted fully.
> They are discussing whether to stay over SHOLS or to go find a very long
> runway. (with a slight joke, preferably in Florida!)  He said, of coarse we
> could just stay here, Pease is long enough.  Fuel will become an issue soon
> if we need to go elsewhere, we'll need to get refueled if we keep burning at this rate.
> 
> 1427z
> They are coming inbound to fly by the tower and see if anyone can spot the problem
> with the gear supposedly in the up position.  Tower said it looked like it was hitting
> part of the fuselage hindering it to fully retract.
> 
> That's it for the moment.
> Ed Langworthy
> Scarborough, ME
> 
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