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Offline cessna157

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DAL MD-88 lands with gear doors open in BOS
« on: May 31, 2008, 10:11:50 AM »
Did anyone happen to catch this in the feed?

Appears a DL MD-88 had some gear troubles on 5/23 and had to land with the gear doors open.  Here's what I saw from the FAA:

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**   Report created 5/30/2008   Record 36                                     **
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IDENTIFICATION
  Regis#: 915DL        Make/Model: MD88      Description: MD88
  Date: 05/23/2008     Time: 1750

  Event Type: Incident   Highest Injury: None     Mid Air: N    Missing: N
  Damage: Unknown

LOCATION
  City: BOSTON   State: MA   Country: US

DESCRIPTION
  N915DL, DELTA AIRLINES FLIGHT 1920, A BOEING MD 88 AIRCRAFT, LANDED WITH
  THE GEAR DOORS DOWN, A PIECE OF THE GEAR DOOR PLATE WAS FOUND ON THE
  RUNWAY, NO INJURIES REPORTED, BOSTON, MA

INJURY DATA      Total Fatal:   0
                 # Crew:   0     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
                 # Pass:   0     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
                 # Grnd:         Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   

WEATHER: VFR

OTHER DATA
  Activity: Business      Phase: Landing      Operation: OTHER


  FAA FSDO: BOSTON, MA  (EA61)                    Entry date: 05/27/2008



Offline Hollis

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Re: DAL MD-88 lands with gear doors open in BOS
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2008, 09:51:29 PM »
As requested, here is the KBOS Twr audio, edited for brevity.
I guess you could call this one 'The case of the dangling doors'. lol