Harrowing video captured the moment an Alaska Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Portland after suffering a mid-air emergency.....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
The clip, recorded by Keith Miller, a pilot and self-proclaimed “aviation nerd,” has been view nearly 100,000 times since it was shared to X on Tuesday. It shows the front wheels and axle of the Embraer E175LR teetering dangerously as the plane touches down on Portland International Airport and makes its way to the end of the runway.
“Rough day for @AlaskaAir Horizon AS2020 flight today,” Miller wrote. “Great job by the crew to keep it on centerline!”
The flight — operated by Horizon Air, which is a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines — took off from Seattle on Monday around 1:30 p.m., KGW reported. It had been scheduled to land in Redmond some 90 minutes later, but the aircraft was forced to divert as it neared its destination.
“We’d like to declare an emergency,” a pilot says on recordings obtained by ABC News via LIVEATC.NET.
“We have about 74 souls on board. Looks like we…we have about 3 hours of fuel onboard and we have a loss of a #2 hydraulic system,” the pilot continued. “That’s all we know of right now, however, we might be stopping straight ahead and not have nose wheel steering.”
According to flight-tracking site, flightaware.com, the plane touched down in Portland around 3:30 p.m. Another flight labelled Horizon 2020 departed about two hours later and arrived in Redmond at about 5:40 p.m.
Alaska Airlines in a statement on Tuesday said the aircraft suffered “an issue involving the hydraulic system that controls various systems on the aircraft, including control of the nose wheel steering.”
It continued: “Our flight crew is trained for scenarios like this, declared an emergency for priority landing, and landed without incident. We swapped the aircraft and guests arrived to their destination about two hours later than scheduled. The aircraft is being inspected by our maintenance team. We apologize to our guests for the inconvenience.”
No one was injured in the incident, which came as the National Transportation and Safety Board launched its hearing into the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 incident. On Jan. 5, a piece of fuselage piece blew out mid-flight with 171 passengers and six crew members on board...CONTINUE READING>>
