TAM 8078 Emergency Landing at JFK - 26Sep2012

[Zee71]

Not everyday does one get lucky to catch a shot like this!

TAM flight number 8078 from Rio de Janeiro was making its final approach for runway 22L around 10:15am. This is the first photo of the aborted landing due to a landing indicator light in the cockpit. The aircraft performed a standard go-around and was then cleared to land on runway 22R. As the aircraft made its second final approach again the JFK tower informed the TAM pilots that the nose gear was twisted, at which point the TAM pilots aborted their second attempted landing. TAM flight 8078 with its nose gear twisted made a successful emergency landing on runway 31L at approximately 11am. Glad no one was injured and kudos to the TAM crew, and outstanding job to say the least!!!!

The photos were taken from North Woodmere park in Five Towns.

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Odd-Stuff/i-BST6fZt/0/L/TAM02JFK26Sep201222LPTMVQ-L.jpg
http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Odd-Stuff/i-vd5z8jb/0/L/TAM01JFK26Sep201222LPTMVQ-L.jpg

[NIKV69]

NICEEEEE! Good job! No live vid like Canyon Blue? Did any news carry it?

[Zee71]

Eyewitness News had a copter and there is some video on their website.

[MarkLawrence]

Wow - great timing - and - great shots!! You could sell those to the media!! :)

[Zee71]

Here is another shot as the TAM gets ready to touch down on runway 31L. Unfortunately, there are not many locations to get a clean shot of 31L (maybe one of these days they'll have an observation deck like Pan Am did many moons ago.....wishful thinking on my part). As you see in the image the nose gear is still rotated.

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Odd-Stuff/i-ZJDvpK2/0/L/TAM03JFK26Sep201222LPTMVQ-L.jpg

[megatop412]

Wow that was like a carbon copy of that jetBlue flight in LAX a few years ago

[Cary]

Go around on Runway 22R:

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[Zee71]

I still can't figure out how the heck the nose gear straightened itself out after being in that position.

[gonzalu]

The nose gear is designed to allow the plane to rotate on it's own center making a smallest possible tight raidus cisrcle.. .So it does allow for a 90 degree lock in most cases. I just can;t imagine why it got this way because when it takes off, it is still in a 0 degree forward position... or else :-)

[rkfast]

Another Airbus with this? Do they have a design issue?

[Zee71]

I am convinced that luck was on their side yesterday, because if there wasn't a warning indicator, they would have attempted a normal landing which could have possibly snapped off or collapsed the nose gear. Glad it worked out for the better.

[FlyingColors]

Wow - great timing - and - great shots!! You could sell those to the media!! :)

He did!!!!
Way to go Mark!!!
I just saw this on the news and then came here!!!

[yankees368]

Oh my goodness. The TAM pilots didn't know they had a twisted gear situation until they nearly landed the *2nd* time on 22R. The tower had to tell them a few times that the gear was twisted before they went around.
Give it a listen.
http://www.liveatc.net/forums/atcaviation-audio-clips/tam8078-gear-problem-at-kjfk/

[yankees368]

If anyone reads this in the next few minutes, turn on Fox News channel between 7-8!

[Avibrasent]

Another Airbus with this? Do they have a design issue?

Indeed rkfast,

It seems that is not news for Airbus...


"(...)The drama began when the crew realised the aircraft's front wheels had not retracted properly on take-off and ended after the Airbus A320(...)"

"(...)A similar incident involving another Airbus A320 occurred in February 1999. The safety board found then that there had been three previous such incidents(...)"

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/airbus-in-fiery-but-safe-landing/2005/09/22/1126982179016.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjNWzPfGWrU

[AJ]

I just saw the Airbus story on the 6 p.m. WABC news. Great picture they put on there with full credit from Cary.

Great shot, congratulations.

AJ

[Cary]

I just saw the Airbus story on the 6 p.m. WABC news. Great picture they put on there with full credit from Cary.

Great shot, congratulations.

AJ

Thanks, AJ! :smile: