LIVE: AA Jet Making Emergency Landing @ MIA

[Matt Molnar]

Nose gear problem, took off from PBI. CNN, FoxNews broadcasting live online.

[Matt Molnar]

It's an MD-82, was enroute to ORD, but faulty nose gear indicator spurred diversion to MIA.

Here's the FlightAware track:
http://map8.flightaware.com/flight_track_map.rvt?ident=AAL862;airports=KPBI+KP BI;key=cbed84af73612433fd09480cda2d16538a8423f4;ke ytime=1203712455;height=340;width=400;departuretim e=1203707160;arrivaltime=

[Matt Molnar]

Landed without incident.

[h2opunk1822]

i can just sit there and listen to the anchors all day.. its a matter of how stupid can we possibly sound!

[Alex T]

Yep looked all good to me here!

N461AA was the registeration for us aviation enthusiast.

Alex

[hiss srq]

[airlinersww.airliners.net/photo/American-Airlines/American-Airlines/0487601[/airlinersof the culprit landing on 4 at LGA by Art Brett,

[lijk604]

The best line from the CNN news coverage:

"It's much better that the gear was stuck in the down position, rather that stuck in the up position."

Well, DUH!!!

[moose135]

The best line from the CNN news coverage:

"It's much better that the gear was stuck in the down position, rather that stuck in the up position."

Well, DUH!!!

OK, I'll admit it - when I heard the gear was stuck down, the first thing I thought was "better than stuck up" :oops:
Of course, the ticker on one of the news channels announced "AA jet lands safely at Miami", which is truly big news :wink:

[stuart schechter]

After the plane landed i heard one of the news reporters go, "wow, he really looked like he stressed out the 'rear gear' by having those on the ground first. I almost punched the t.v.

[nwafan20]

Haha yeah, I was laughing so hard when the Fox reporter thought that the spray deflector on the nose wheel was something wrong with the wheel, he said "It seems as if it is a popped tire"

HAHA!

There were too many mistakes to mention, I was laughing during the entire broadcast.

[Eddie.]

Matt- +1 I was laughing through the whole broadcast.