There were no injuries when a Delta Boeing 717 crew put the aircraft down in Charlotte with the nosegear retracted. Flight 1092 was on final after a flight from Atlanta when the crew got a nosegear light. They flew a couple of inspection flights over the tower and learned the front gear doors were open but the gear was stowed. Nothing would bring the wheels down so the crew set up for landing.
The crew told the 96 passengers and three flight attendants to be ready for a rough landing but it that didn’t turn out to be the case. The rollout ended with the nose right on the centerline. Delta apologized to the passengers for “what they experienced” but noted crews train extensively for this kind of thing, rare though it is.
Nice! Professional job leads to a just slightly less than routine outcome.
… but you just know that nightly news ‘droids across the land will lead with “Breaking News: Airliner Crash in Charlotte!”
But it will help sell ads!
This former Boeing engineer HATES when they label that Mac-Dac hardware as Boeing equipment. But well done by the aircrew!
Leave it to a Boeing engineer to come up with a dorky moniker. Mac-Doug would make sense, not Mac-Dac.
Former McDonnell-Douglas engineers I worked with also called it Mac-Dac.
Understood. But Boeing did claim M’Daity from the orphanage and adopt her into the family.
The good news, it looks like the passengers only had a short hop to the ground when they deplaned.
Everyone walked away from it, so it was a good landing. If they get to use the airplane again, it was a great landing! Nicely done pilots!