AN-124 makes emergency landing in Houston

[Elroy13]

I work at Houstons Bush Intercontinental airport and see two AN-124's all the time and every so often the AN-225. When they depart to the south they come right over my office and shake everything!!

Here is the link with video of the landing.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/13759953/detail.html

[Nathan]

[B17news]

I think it needs a few more landing gears.

[Warbird Kid]

A little bit different than Thunderbird huh?

Now that is a very big airplane. I dont even think somthing like that should be in the air!

Ive seen pics on Airliners, of one of those landing at Bradley International, up in Windsor Locks.

[Elroy13]

A little bit different than Thunderbird huh?

Now that is a very big airplane. I dont even think somthing like that should be in the air!

Ive seen pics on Airliners, of one of those landing at Bradley International, up in Windsor Locks.

You should see the AN-225 its even BIGGER!!!

[Elroy13]

Now Im starting to wonder what other problems the 124 had. She just took off and kept the gear down.....Hmmmmm??

Does anyone else see these few aircraft at their airports??

[skybolt2003]

My dad was a flight engineer for Pan Am - flew on recips in the 50's onto the 707 and then retired on the 747. He always talked about one of his 'moments' – he had quite a few – but they took off out of Honolulu in the 747 and lost many tires. I can't remember how many, but it was a chain reaction deal wherein one took out the other, to the point that it was the most amount of blown tires they'd ever had. (At the time, or maybe still) They made a pass or two and confirmed the situation, talked with maintenance, and decided to press on to Tokyo, rather than dump fuel and land there. When they got to Tokyo it was a big deal with all the epquipment, and of course the landing looked just like this – no big deal. I think it was the drama of the long flight and all the thinking you could do enroute that made my dad recall this as one of the big ones. The other really big one, was when they landed in Tokyo in the middle of a huge Typhoon. After landing they couldn't taxi and had to await busses to offload. The plane (again a 747) was sliding sideways on the runway in the storm.

[tom d. friedman]

that pilot must have literally stood on those break pedals!!!!

[Elroy13]

I havent been able to get really close to her. But my Father is a retired firefighter that was stationed here at IAH. He told me that the tires were always in horrible shape!