Virgin Australia 777 Jet Makes Emergency Landing at LAX, Gear Issue [VIDEO]
Virgin Australia Boeing 777
A Virgin Australia Boeing 777 jet made an emergency landing yesterday morning at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) when the pilots reported a problem with its landing gear.
Virgin Flight 7, inbound from Brisbane, Australia with 416 passengers aboard, made a safe landing with no reported injuries.
The airline has not released the details of the gear issue or any damage to the aircraft.
We will update this story if we find out more.
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The incident aircraft, a 777-300ER (VH-VOZ) was delivered new to an airline called V Australia in 2009. V Australia later merged with Virgin Australia in 2011. It’s a fairly new aircraft, but ready for it’s first major overhaul (every 4 years).
And the flight path doesn’t indicate that the plane held or did a fly-by before landing, so it couldn’t have been that serious.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHVOZ/history/20120826/0140Z/YBBN/KLAX
Sounds like it was fairly minor. Good thing.
Thank God, Lee! With a plane as large as the 777, having sound landing gear is a must!
As a B727 AMT (currently) the 777 of course is a brand spanking new airplane and I was employed by Boeing on the Everett flightline when this acft. was being delivered. Trip seven’s have about the best gear in the business with no known issues and very reliable.
Ahh! The 727, my favorite aircraft of all time! It’s amazing to think that a plane that first flew on February 9, 1963 is still flying today (well, the design at least). If Boeing engineers only knew what they know today when designing the 727, we might still see 72′s coming out of the factory like we do the 737!
Yes after working passenger 27′s for years commercially, it is an interesting…..dare I say…pleasure working them again as freighters without all the fluff. As for the continuation of the airframe, during my time with Boeing I inquired about the possibility of reviving not only the 727 design but the 757 as well. Another fabulous Boeing product.
That’s what i hear from a lot of freighter pilots- they seem to enjoy the flying without having to worry about passengers. Do you think Boeing could ever resurrect the 727 “design”? That would be awesome! Before Boeing revealed their plans to make the 737MAX, i remember seeing evidence of a possible T-Tail design, which would have been interesting. I really like T-tail aircraft, but i know they’re more difficult to built (and heavy) in relation to the standard tail design.