VS43 Virgin’s Gatwick to Las Vegas flight, experienced a problem on take off yesterday with its undercarriage. After dumping fuel it returned to Gatwick to land. Apart from a spectacular landing yesterday from the pilot – after a little bounce on the runway – what is also interesting is that there is social media from inside the plane, and a ton of videos from outside showing approach and landing.
I have sifted through YouTube for you and offer the following:
Clearly showing the landing on only three sets of wheels this video has radio data overlaid:
You can see how close the engines came to the ground and how fast the emergency services go to the runway.
From inside the cabin there is about a minute and half of the crew preparing passengers for the landing:
I hope never have to go through myself!
The runway is now open but there are delays and cancellations resulting from the problems yesterday.
we were on this and it was horrific, we thought we were going to die
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