Zurich airport, an appealing sight after too long in the air for US Airways passengers!
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – US Airways flight 710 landed in Zurich shortly before 15:00 Thursday afternoon 23 June, six-and-a-half hours late, but the passengers weren’t sitting in an airport waiting to leave. The 197 passengers circled above Chester country, around the Philadelphia airport, for more than three hours Wednesday night, spending fuel.
Shortly after takeoff the crew noticed that the landing gear was stuck, reports the Phildelphia Inquirer. The flight, which originated in Los Angeles and was stopping over in Philadelphia, would not be able to fly that distance with the gear down because of the drag on the plane and subsequent fuel consumption. It also couldn’t land, until it spent enough of its fuel to reach landing weight.
The plane then landed safely and at 01:32 instead of 18:25 the passengers, on a new plane, flew off to Zurich.
An Easyjet flight over the Saleve, near Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – An easyJet flight from Geneva to Nice 11 December landed safely after the 144 passengers spent 70 extra minutes in the air and were shown the brace position to prepare for a landing with an unsafe right main gear, Aviation Herald reports.
The pilots aborted the initial approach to Nice Airport, then tried two more times to get the gear down properly before “a low approach suggested all gear was down.”
