Author Topic: Piedmont E145 at Richlands on Dec 13th 2023 gear problem on departure  (Read 841 times)

Offline KB4TEZ

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https://avherald.com/h?article=51264993&opt=0
(article courtesy of AVH)

Here's the audio, I did follow him over to Wilmington, but pretty noisy and in the weeds,
but here's the take off / landing / emerg vehicle prep

A Piedmont Airlines Embraer ERJ-145 on behalf of American Airlines, registration N637AE performing flight AA-5977 from Richlands,NC to Charlotte,NC (USA) with 53 people on board, was climbing out of Richlands' runway 05 when tower instead of handing the aircraft off to departure advised the crew, that it appeared the right hand main gear had not retracted. The crew confirmed they had a gear problem, levelled off at about 2500 feet and was vectored around the airport while the crew worked the checklists. The crew managed to received three greens again, tower advised that it appeared all gear was down, and the aircraft returned to Richlands for a safe landing on runway 05 about 35 minutes after departure.

A replacement Embraer ERJ-145 registration N653AE reached Charlotte with a delay of about 5 hours.

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground in Richlands for about 5 hours, then positioned to Richmond,VA (USA) and is currently still on the ground in Richmond about 10.5 hours after landing there.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL5977/history/20231213/1950Z/KOAJ/KCLT