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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I am under the impression that they can put this thick foamy stuff all over the runway in the event landing gear will not lower (this impression is from a flight in which we were told mid-trip that there was some chance the landing gear might not come back down because we hit a bird or something with it on the way up). Shouldn't that work for this scenario, as well? Or were they lying to me at the time?
We landed to a runway full of emergency vehicles at Dulles. The landing gear came out so we didn't have to do a fly-by in order to allow the foam to be deposited.
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I think that they can, but that it's not a guarantee that everything will be just fine. Um, except on plains you are flying on. If those land on foam, you can be absolutely sure everything will be just fine.
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