Saudi Arabian 777 Gear Emergency 11-28-09

[heeshung]

As I sat down at the Wendy's near Firestone for a bite, I noticed a plane making rounds and dumping fuel in the distance. I took a couple pictures and it turned out to be a Saudi Arabian 777. It ended up landing on 31L and seems to have had an uneventful landing based on the planes that followed on the approach.

Note the left gear in both pictures.

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r89/UnitedVirtualResources/IMG_8611-1.jpg

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r89/UnitedVirtualResources/IMG_8654.jpg

[Matt Molnar]

Awesome catch, Mark.

[Delta777LR]

Im gonna add some shots to this too, I saw this happening at the time.. Me and Mark got the shots

Heres mine

The plane circled twice dumping fuel before landing back at JFK
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[mmedford]

See the 777 nose is way sexier than the A330/40 nose...and those pics show it...

[monst0r]

Hey everyone I'm Mark's friend Justin...

I was with him so I have a few shots of that too.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7523/img5247x.th.jpg (http://img502.imageshack.us/i/img5247x.jpg/)

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/1592/img5229v.th.jpg (http://img36.imageshack.us/i/img5229v.jpg/)

[ch2tdriver]

Well, I got to see my first fuel dump! I was on Fire Island driving west on the causeway after visiting the lighthouse with the wife and kids. All of a sudden I see 2 thick contrails in formation over Captree Bridge making a turn NE'erly. Then I saw the 777 and said to my wife looks like someone is having trouble and heading back to JFK.

Pete

[ABDUL2009]

Hello evryone,

I was there :(

see this please:

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/9615/dsc04893999.jpg

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1577/dsc048969999.jpg

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9094/dsc04895999999.jpg

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/126/dsc0489499.jpg

:(

Best regards,

[Matt Molnar]

Great photos, Abdul. Thank you for sharing!

[nycpilot]

I'm surprised they dumped over Long Island......I hope it vaporized quickly!

[cancidas]

I'm surprised they dumped over Long Island......I hope it vaporized quickly!
been a while since any of my ground school classes covered fuel dumping but maybe our two resident gas men can confirm it takes about 5000ft to vaporize. i'm pretty sure that's the number we were taught in ATC, will try to find and confirm the figure.

[Matt Molnar]

I'm surprised they dumped over Long Island......I hope it vaporized quickly!
No worries, it's only Long Island. :mrgreen:

[moose135]

No worries, it's only Long Island. :mrgreen:
Don't forget - Queens is on Long Island...

[USAF Pilot 07]

I'm surprised they dumped over Long Island......I hope it vaporized quickly!


Don't eat the seafood! :mrgreen:

[ch2tdriver]

No it was CHEMTRAILS!!! The USAF is spraying swine flu over LI to carry out the Govt plan on getting everyone vaccinated for H1N1 and keep the Pharma companies in $$$$. :P :lol:

[moose135]

No it was CHEMTRAILS!!! The USAF is spraying swine flu over LI to carry out the Govt plan on getting everyone vaccinated for H1N1 and keep the Pharma companies in $$$$. :P :lol:
I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of chemtrails... :wink:

[Matt Molnar]

No it was CHEMTRAILS!!! The USAF is spraying swine flu over LI to carry out the Govt plan on getting everyone vaccinated for H1N1 and keep the Pharma companies in $$$$. :P :lol:
I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of chemtrails... :wink:

Clearly the government is doing something to the air to produce rainbow effects NEAR THE GROUND. I suspect chemtrails are involved.

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