Air India hard landing in LAX

[VenaCavaLAX]

It's 10pm Los Angeles time...Ch9 KCAL News is reporting a hard landing of an Air India 747-400 there were sparks as it landed and was shadowed by the airport fire deptarment and hosed down. They aren't evacuating the plane via the slides. Not sure if it's an incoming or departing, but they are saying that it had possible left LAX and had to come back. All the details are schetchy right now.

 

[Paul]

Here's a new brief. Nice catch VenaCavaLAX.

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[Paul]

Here is just a little add-on for this not-so little plight. What started as a gear problem ended up being a 45-hour fiasco for these passengers.

It started Monday when their first plane blew a tire on takeoff, dumped fuel over the ocean and circled back to Los Angeles International Airport to land in a spray of sparks, shedding 200 pounds of rubber and metal on the runway.

On Tuesday, hundreds of Air India passengers tried again, settling into a different jumbo jet with "Your Palace in the Sky" scrolled in red script near the tail. This time, one of the engines wouldn't start. For about five hours, travelers sat in the sweltering plane. Flight attendants locked up the drinks. Some passengers staged a mini revolt.

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