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The Fingertip Switch That Turned a Routine Flight into a Belly Landing
The Fingertip Switch That Turned a Routine Flight into a Belly Landing
A fingertip-sized circuit breaker hidden low on the cockpit floor tripped during approach and kept the landing gear from extending, forcing a Boeing 767 to belly-land on foam at Warsaw Chopin Airport - 231 people evacuated with no serious injuries. How did a single unnoticed switch set off one of the most closely watched emergency landings in European aviation history, and who missed it?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Newark departure to the belly landing in Warsaw, describing the mechanical failure…
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