Word: gearing
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...that day—Dec. 20, 2005—Midwest Airlines flight 210 from Boston en route to Milwaukee was beset by a dangerous mechanical problem, which caused the landing gear to emit a shower of sparks as it rose into the air. For those of us aboard, who had no idea anything had gone awry, the malfunction was a bothersome inconvenience, a mere “problem with the indicator,” as the captain so vaguely and reassuringly cooed over the intercom. The plane circled Logan for two hours, burning off fuel so as to minimize...
...reeled at the severity of the incident. The similar JetBlue incident on Sept. 21 came to mind, in which an airplane had to make an emergency landing with its front landing gear stuck sideways. And who could forget the tragic Southwest Airlines catastrophe—which came barely two weeks before the Midwest incident—in which a jet trying to land in heavy snow and ice slid off a runway at Midway International Airport in Chicago, crashing through a fence, injuring 10 people, and killing a 6-year...
It’s the same approach he uses to gear the team up for competition...
Twenty minutes after takeoff, the pilot informed passengers over the intercom that the indicator light for the plane’s landing gear was malfunctioning, recalled Sopen B. Shah ’08, who was on the flight. The pilot said he would circle the plane around Logan for an hour and a half to burn fuel before landing...
Despite the issues with the landing gear, the plane’s landing was uneventful, passengers said. "I actually thought the so-called emergency landing was more smooth than a regular landing," said Moore. "If you had told me it was compromised landing gear, I wouldn’t have guessed it. They came in very slowly...