Blame Me: I’m Used To It

Engine fire after take-off, no hydraulics, no electricity, and the nose gear won’t  extend for an emergency landing. Did you read about this? Buried on the bottom of pg. 4 in the 8 April, 2009 Wall Street Journal was a story about an American Airlines MD-82 compound emergency in 2007 that ended well. By ‘ending well’ I mean there were no fatalities and the plane was returned to service. One would think the Captain and First Officer did a pretty nice job of getting the aircraft back on the ground.