What. No video?

WTFDYW: What. No video?

They captured the video with the very best microphones they had.

bulldg4life: Since when can these things land without the landing gear and not turn in to rolling tumbling fireballs?

They dumped the fuel. Good move.

I want to tell the pilots, "Good luck. We're all counting on you."

Amazing! Really great news, especially for Polish underwear merchants in the area.

I bet it looked like a big Tylenol.

garulee: bulldg4life: Since when can these things land without the landing gear and not turn in to rolling tumbling fireballs?

They dumped the fuel. Good move.

Always wondered, who picks the place to dump the fuel?

Chicken of Fish?

boobsrgood: Amazing! Really great news, especially for Polish underwear merchants in the area.

That would be at Pennys. There's a big sale at Pennys.

*OR...OR....christ i need to learn to prufe-reed..

bulldg4life: Since when can these things land without the landing gear and not turn in to rolling tumbling fireballs?

You go as slow as you can and touch everything down aft of the center of gravity as much as possible. Then you keep giving it back pressure to take as much weight off the fore parts of the aircraft (as well as adding aerodynamic drag) until it's impossible to de-rotate. Hopefully you're going slowly enough at that point that nothing digs in.

Unless the fuselage is cracked or there's any damage to the pressure bulkhead, they'll replace the engines, maybe the flaps, and put the aircraft back in service.

Charlie Freak: bulldg4life: Since when can these things land without the landing gear and not turn in to rolling tumbling fireballs?

You go as slow as you can and touch everything down aft of the center of gravity as much as possible. Then you keep giving it back pressure to take as much weight off the fore parts of the aircraft (as well as adding aerodynamic drag) until it's impossible to de-rotate. Hopefully you're going slowly enough at that point that nothing digs in.

Unless the fuselage is cracked or there's any damage to the pressure bulkhead, they'll replace the engines, maybe the flaps, and put the aircraft back in service.

And some landing gear. Lets not forget what started all of this.

Videos and stills here, on a Polish news site (new window).

In all seriousness, the pilot put it down more smoothly than most transatlantic flights I've been on where the wheels did come down. Good jorb!

WTFDYW: Charlie Freak: bulldg4life: Since when can these things land without the landing gear and not turn in to rolling tumbling fireballs?

You go as slow as you can and touch everything down aft of the center of gravity as much as possible. Then you keep giving it back pressure to take as much weight off the fore parts of the aircraft (as well as adding aerodynamic drag) until it's impossible to de-rotate. Hopefully you're going slowly enough at that point that nothing digs in.

Unless the fuselage is cracked or there's any damage to the pressure bulkhead, they'll replace the engines, maybe the flaps, and put the aircraft back in service.

And some landing gear. Lets not forget what started all of this.

They'll likely jack the aircraft up and simply lower the gear once they figure out what the problem was (assuming there wasn't a catastrophic failure) and tow it out of there.

Chances are one main gear wouldn't show "down and locked," it may have been partially extended, fully extended and not locked, or completely retracted, who knows, but in the case you you can't verify, you can elect to belly land instead of landing on one main. It's kind of a crap shoot - it can go bad doing it either way, but on an aircraft that size, I'd probably belly land it too, to avoid doing a ground loop.