Beautiful Landing at LaGuardia

My brother shot this beautiful video landing at LaGuardia on a US Airways Dash 8-100 last week:

JetBlue A320 Hard Landing in Sacramento

Passengers of a JetBlue A320 experienced a pretty hard landing yesterday when the plane blew four tires while landing at Sacramento airport. Four people suffered minor injuries during landing and about a dozen were injured while leaving the plane. JetBlue flight 262 was en route from Long Beach in south California to the state's capital with 86 passengers and five crew members on board when the cockpit crew reported problems with the plane's brakes.

What happened? Apparently, the brakes of the A320 were locked and wouldn't release. This means that the tires did not move/roll when the plane touched down on the runway. In turn, that caused the tires, and the air within, to heat up very quickly (because of friction) and, eventually, lead to the bursting of the tires (since air expands when it gets hot). The friction also caused minor flames on the tires and the brakes, so all passengers left the plane through emergency slides before the fire could spread to other parts of the plane (which would have been unlikely though).

The Aviation Insider will keep you posted on what the mechanical problem here was.

To read the CNN story, please click here. The followings is a video from a local FOX station:

And Another Bumpy Landing

Another very nice bumpy landing on an Airbus:

Bumpy Landing of the Week

I was really impressed when I saw this video on YouTube. This is one windy landing. Great job, pilot and A319!

Blizzard Landing Denver 757

Just watched this awesome blizzard landing in Denver. Check it out: