Orlando Sanford Airport (SFB) was shut down this afternoon after an Allegiant Air jet made an emergency landing. Allegiant Air Flight 758 experienced "a hydraulic problem related to the nose gear," according to an FAA spokeswoman quoted by news media. The aircraft landed on its main gear only, after the nose gear failed to deploy.
News photos of the accident scene, on Florida's WFTV, show what appears to be an MD80 series aircraft with its nose planted directly on the runway. An emergency slide is clearly visible, deployed from the 1R door.
Soon after the accident, Local6.com reported that the 147 passengers and crew were evacuated via emergency slides. One woman suffered a sprained ankle in the evacuation, but there were no other injuries.
Later news reports said that there were 157 people on the flight, which originated in Portsmouth, NH.
At one point Local6.com referred to the event as a "hard landing." Maybe "hard" as in "difficult" -- but judging from the photos, it probably was not a hard landing in the usual sense!
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
Allegiant Air jet lands at SFB with nose gear up
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This doesn't surprise me.
Allegiant Air "acccidenly" crossed the fresh water and "blue juice" toilet water lines on their aircraft and pots of coffee were made with poisened water.
A flight attendant was the only one to drink the poisened coffee served by Allegiant...in time to save the rest of the passengers, saving their lives.
Allegiant fired the employee for drinking the poisen, and she has been diagnosed with permanent liver damage which looks like may shorten her life.
Allegiant Air is not safe.
Kinda funny seeing as how Allegiant doesn't serve coffee on ANY of it's flights.
Poisened is spelled poisoned.
Allegiant Air is one of the safest air carriers out there. If they weren't safe, would they still be flying after the investigation?
I think not.
That incident happened in Bullhead City and I was there. Time frame was approx 2002-2003. It was ground services that screwed that up, they put the wrong nozzles on the H2O and waste water carts. I can gaurantee you coffee was brewed with blue water and given to the flight crew that day.
I was a mechanic for this disaster of an airline.
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