United SkyWest Jet Makes Emergency Landing At LAX

What a beautiful job of piloting. This crew is worthy of a step up to the main line.

Everyone who suggests a computer could fly the plane from take off to landing should watch this landing and they will realize good piloting requires a heartbeat.

The CBS website has a video of the landing, the crew did a fantastic job keeping the plane on the centerline.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=11482350

I'm sure some of the passengers were shaken up by the experience, but you couldn't ask for a better outcome under the circumstances.

The pilots did a great job on this flight and should be commended.... However, knowing the CRJ200 as well as I do, and even writing a training course for the company that I worked for at the time and was required course with test for all mechanics in the company... This is a complicated gear system, but by the same token it is a very reliable gear. There are no gear doors on that plane (CRJ 200). Only thing that I can think of is something failed in the Manual Extension (maybe a cable broke). When the gear is up, the Hydraulics to the actuator is pressurized and the gear is basically just hanging onto the hook.. you pull the cable, and the hook releases the gear and it falls down... Very simple system.

Great job by the pilots! Of course it helped that they were flying the very ROBUST and forgiving BOMBARDIER CRJ! Had this occurred with another air-frame I am not so sure that the outcome would have been so positive.

Proper training followed by use of proper proper procedures = Essentially, a non-issue.

Well, except for the cost of repairs to that belly and wing. It might have been a little more "fun" were it a 737 or similar.

It was a belly landing, a very good one. The term was used on CBS twice to describe the event. BTW, I wrote the headline on the article I submitted to FA.

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Belly landing for plane in LA in after landing gear fails

The landing gear on the commuter jet failed to fully drop and the pilot was forced to land the plane on its belly

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3077047/Plane-43-aboard-makes-emergency-landing-Los-Angeles.html

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Skywest plane gear collapse at LAZ

A United Express plane made a hard landing Monday morning at Los Angeles International Airport after a landing gear collapsed.
SkyFOX captured the jetliner landing on LAX Runway 24 without the back left landing gear deployed.

http://www.fox10phoenix.com/story/29031542/plane-makes-hard-landing-at-lax-video