American Airlines B767 Emergency at Manchester, UK

In February 2008 an American airlines B767 made an emergency landing at Manchester Airport, UK.

The plane was just over an hour into its daily flight to Chicago when a crew member detected a hydraulics fault.
The captain declared an emergency and turned back. A few tires burst when the plane touched down on runway 23R. Fire engines chased the plane down the runway.
The brakes nearly set on fire because they were applied so hard.
The plane was going to have to be towed off the runway, but the brakes were jammed on, so the plane was to be stuck there for a long time. The passengers ended up disembarking the plane while it was still on the runway and they were taken back to the terminal by the buses which were sent out.
The airport was declared closed and stayed closed for well over 2 hours.
Over those 2 hours, all inbound flights were diverted, most to Liverpool Liverpool and some to Birmingham. When the airport finally re-opened and resumed normal operations there were over 30 planes stuck on the ground waiting to take off.

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• emergency
• landing
• Manchester
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• Boeing
• 767
• chicago
• hydraulics
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• aircraft
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[lyricaltesting]

There is an advert for flights with American Airline (in the sale).

Advert fail.

[adriaansmit81]

first i thought it was fsx, but thank you, it was a real video unlike the fake- emergency fsx stuff. Nice video!

[misterkevincarrizo]

gta

[edyrta]

good landing:DD

[Judjefferys]

@adriaansmit81 its not fake its just a game

[hoplite46]

the wind spoiled the radio chatter

[gip150983]

@henryinsure i bet you were shitting it, thats my worst nightmare

[trev711]

Lmao at the little Vauxhall Zafira tagging along behind at 2:07!

[adriaansmit81]

1:18 haha it is like that guy with that antenna controls the plane xd

[Marymary73]

The best part of the video is at 3:00 with those two idiots fighting.

[jonny96]

You can do a normal landing with the gear doors open. A hydraulic failure would have caused this problem, they would have dropped the gear by means of unlocking it and letting gravity do the rest, the gear doors are hydraulically operated so are unable to retract closed. The reason the tyres deflated is probably the fuse plugs melted which is to stop them exploding due to hot brakes. great job.