Queens, NY – Emergency crews on the scene have confirmed that a plane with a blown rear tire has made a safe emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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The Delta Air Lines plane dumped excess fuel and circled the Queens airport before the only plane landing at runway 22-R.
All passengers will be exiting the plane on the tarmac and will be shuttled to the terminal.
The plane had taken off at Kennedy and was headed for Utah before it turned around.
why does the plane need to make a u turn. can’t it fly to its destination and make an emergency landing there?
it would only make sense to save the excess fuel & save the delay.
JFK is a major air port they dont have emergency landing equipment and response in all airports if there would have been a crash
plus who wants to sit on a plane for five hours, not knowing if there going to make it or not, get it over asap.
Passaic Rav,
A good dosage of common sense would not hurt you too much.
actually passaic rov asks a good question which can only come from someone who knows a thing or two about airline travel.
to the anon who made the comment about what emergency equipment they may have at the destination, THAT was an unintelligent thing to say as the flight was headed to SLC which is a VERY MAJOR airport.
why does the plane need to make a u turn. can’t it fly to its destination and make an emergency landing there? >>>>>>>>>>
So if you blew a tire on Rt 17 and you have 25 miles left to go would you please continue on and not block traffic? We would not like to sit in 5 hours of traffic because of your blown out tire.
Now you know what you sound like! (an idiot?)
siriusly! Can someone explane. The air plane doese not use its weels in the air why is it safer to land sooner than later. what are you risking by wating???
Actually, there was a jetblue that flew crosscountry in a somewhat similar situation.
Pilots respect JFK because at least one of its runways is much longer than required, it lets the pilot be prepared for almost anything. The jetblue was headed to JFK.
Can anybody tell us where they “dump” the excess fuel? Many people living near JFK in the Five Towns wonder about this.
Excess fuel is dumped over the ocean whenever possible. It can be dumped over land when necessary, as long as it is done at a high enough altitude that the fuel will evaporate before it reaches the ground.
BTW it does not get “dumped” all at once, rather it is sprayed out of a small pipe (usually on the wingtip) and the procedure takes some time.
Fuel is typically dumped in a designated area, if the situation permits. For coastal airports, it is over the sea. It is not a common procedure and is only done before an emergency landing, so there should be no impact on local life.
Fuel is dumped as the maximum landing weight of an aircraft is lower then its maximum take off weight. They have to burn or dump the fuel so they can land without blowing out the landing gear. This is of course doubly true when you already have a problem with a blown tire.
Mind you the pilots train for this kind of thing in a simulator twice a year. The airlines train their pilots very well.
imagine getting hit by 10,000 gallons of fuel. good to know it’s not dumped like retardants on a firest fire!
And people, people, people, learn to spell!
fuel is usually dumped over Woodmere
ex fuel is usually dumped over Woodmere
Another reason for fuel dump is in the event of fire, there is a lesser risk.
Anyways, thanks for the kind comments above. Why don’t you use some common sense. I asked a logical question and some of you don’t have the brains to think before responding.
Passaic Rav
It is actually a very good question. Since the wheels are not used until landing, why waste very very expensive fuel, when you can worry about landing at a later time. Besides, the landing dilemma is not minimized if the plane lands immediately. And, as one writer mentioned, the pilots train for this exact situation twice yearly. So, please respond.
Honestly, Passaic Rabbi makes sense. The fact is the airlines have policies in certain situations, in the event of a catasrophic failure to a blown tire, the aircraft is to land at the closest airport. Another issue is that when the tire blows out it is a real possibility that a piece of the tire might catapult and slam into the aircraft causing more unknown damage.