Uhm, any information/link as to what happened, waht was wrong with the wheel, how they landed it etc please?
Edit: found it on CNN.com.
I just watched the video: amazing work!!
The total control during that landing, it was just perfect. Easy on the main gear while keeping the nose up, soaring only the nosegear over the runway (Holiday passengers seem to like the "i can't even feel it" complete soaring landings, though these aren't the safest ones as there is little pressure on the tires to keep it firmly on the runway and give it a good brake. Here they put the main gear firmly though VERY controlled on the runway, making sure the contact (and hence braking force) stays throughout the landing, while forcing the nosewheel to soar over the runway nonetheless.). Really going for a long way on the main gear (F-16 like landing, though without the high aoa to airbrake
). Then putting the nosewheel down in such a soft and controlled way (at the right time, when there was still enough speed to avoid falling on the nose wheel), having a perfectly straight course. And the nosewheel itself: tires exploded (which is OK and normal in this situation), wheels got dented and ended up breaking more or less away, the nose gear itself got scraped off quite a bit, but it held on and let go very little (sharp) pieces as it seems! Even the runway seems to have suffered very little. Amazing piloting work, very good design (the wheel problem could have been due to design mistakes though, but also things like maintenance faults can be the cause) and a bit of luck. Perfect emergency landing!
The bit of luck was needed for things like the main gear getting stuck in the runway (between patches) and braking off anyway, or sudden sideskidding during the runout at a time where the speed was too low for the rudder to compensate. As the main landing forces and speed were properly dealt with by the main gear, I think that woul have resulted only in (a lot more) damage but no wounded. This one seems like "new nosegear on it, checking the surrounding construction where it is hung up to and up you go"
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It must have been the smelliest landing ever however
. "Let's burn some rubber!"