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American Airlines Flight 862 makes an emergency landing in Miami

Update 3:33pm CT: Video of the great landing posted.Update 2:44pm CT: The pilot has made a superb landing via aerodynamic breaking by holding the plane’s nose up, video of this coming soon.Update 2:36pm CT: An air traffic control source has told news agencies that it is now on a 30 mile final approach to the Runway 26L. Most of the news agencies helicopters are hovering over runway 26R.Update 2:31pm CT: AA has also opened Runway 26R (26 right) if need be. The pilots have seen three green lights giving them thumbs up to make a landing.Update 2:16pm CT: AA plans on landing the flight by 2:30pm CT on Runway 26L (26 left) which is 10620 feet long.American Airlines flight 862 is making an emergency landing in Miami due to nose gear door trouble. There are 138 passengers including the crew (there are 5 crew members). The flight was scheduled to fly from Palm Beach to Chicago. The current plan is to burn some fuel off and land at Miami International Airport.It originally made a fly by near the airport tower at which point the air traffic control notified the pilot that the front landing wheel was 70 percent retracted.News agencies have aired footage of the aircraft flying around the airport, they have made note that the aircraft has sufficient fuel.It is expected that there may be a few sparks from the front landing wheel. The airport fire department will be there expecting its arrival. It is speculated that they may spray some foam on the front landing wheel or any area should anything occur.Updated 2:20pm CT: The airport fire department has just been dispatched to await the landing of the aircraft.AA 862 taking off from Miami in a 2005 photo (note: the news reports coming in say that it is an MD80, the photo below of flight AA862 is a 727.):MSNBC made note at 2:09pm CT that the MIA airport had actually conducted a drill of the very same situation yesterday that is occurring today.They also noted that a Quantas flight had a similar problem last week.More coming soon.
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