This Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 landed safely in Sussex after a landing gear malfunction. Flight VS43 out of London Gatwick on December 29 was headed for Las Vegas and landed in Sussex after a minor mechanical issue with the hydraulic system made a return necessary.
The plane spent a few hours circling to burn and dump enough fuel to meet the aircraft’s maximum landing weight requirement. The 747 landed with only four of it’s available five sets of landing gears deployed. Credit goes to the talented pilots who made a textbook soft landing in this incident.
The Virgin Atlantic is 13 years old.
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