Spirit Airlines Landing Gear Catches Fire In Atlanta With Passengers On Board

On July 10th, a Spirit Airlines flight from Tampa to Atlanta suffered a scare after its landing gear caught fire upon landing. As the Airbus A320-200 touched down in Atlanta, one of its brakes overheated, creating flashes of fire and smoke. There were fortunately no reported injuries, and passengers deplaned safely at the gate. But let’s take a closer look at this incident in today’s video…

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[frozengale]

Thankfully, the situation was handled well by the ATL staff.

[FatHeadDave]

I hope they can still keep their spirits up

[randyarock]

You asked - 9 years back on a flight into DFW on a nearly new AA 737 (I don't know the version).

Flaps wouldn't deploy, and we were flying about over the area for an extended period. We weren't told what was going on at first. For me, having flown a lot and used to the usual sounds and "thumps" a plane makes during a flight, I sensed that something was up. No sounds of the flaps deploying and a long trip circling the area.

Finally, the captain told us that the flaps weren't deploying, and that we were to make an emergency landing. He reassured us that we were being lined up on the longest runway, that they would rely on the brakes and that we were to expect to be met by emergency services.

We landed safely (excellent job by the flight crew), and we were escorted to the gate by an entourage of flashing light emergency vehicles. I guess the brakes had melted, but unlike this plane in the video, they didn't flame out.

That's it. Not really exciting, but then, I'm OK with boring but safe air travel. ;-)

[thelettuceconsumer]

Spirit takes the meaning “That landing was fire” to a whole new meaning.

[MSRTA_Productions]

Wow! Thanks to the Southwest pilots for notifying about the situation to ATC

[forza-e-honore]

Lightning strike in an ATR-42 from Bahamas to Miami. That was fun. Also experienced severe turbulence due to thunderstorms in an A320 from DCA to DTW in the early 2000s which rocked everyone's world. In 1987, our flight into DTW was in a holding pattern for 40 minutes until we were redirected to MSP because of the unfortunate crash of Northwest Flight 255.

[gfrede]

I've been on a flight where one of the windshields cracked in the flight deck. Another flight an engine cowling on a turboprop nearly departed the aircraft during the flight. Uneventful, but scary looking.

[sundragon]

In the 80s, the United 737 landed in Spokane (GEG) from San Francisco (SFO) on a freezing January night. The aircraft fishtailed twice upon landing. It was one of the coolest (excuse the pun) experiences of my life. I squealed with glee as the plane slid and rotated then snapped to the other direction before the pilots regained control. Gotta admit that Boeing builds great landing gear! Sliding sideways on a 737 is still the best theme park ride ever! 😄

[PavlosPapageorgiou]

Near miss, BA 747 from Tokyo landing at Heathrow, apparently there was a British Midlands aircraft still on the runway. As passengers, we just noticed a go-around. Sometime around 2000.

[WhiskeyGulf]

Has to have been a fluid leak for that much fire.

[doggostudios]

I was on a JetBlue e190 flying from South Carolina To New York and the pilot had to make an emergency descent and emergency landing in North Carolina, This was because the cabin pressurization systems failed, the oxygen masks didn't come down, because the pilot basically nosedived the plane to get us to a safe altitude, but I remember when we were at a safe altitude to breathe it was freezing. (we landed safely and everyone was okay)

[ronaldcuieii]

So I was on a frontier airliner A320-200, was on a final approach. While still about 500feet in the air we ascended back up and began circling around and around only to learn that there was a mechanical. Prior to landing, the pilot was on the phone with Airbus. Once we finally touched down we were met with fire and ambulance responders. That was interesting. Very very nice. Please keep coming out with more vlogs!!

[TheFlyingBusman]

The most dramatic aircraft incident I have ever witnessed was a light aircraft coming down in fields between Doncaster and Gainsborough. Police were everywhere and it turned out this aircraft had struck an RAF aircraft that was out on exercises due to it being used to smuggle a sizeable quantity of cocaine and flying at extreme low level to avoid radar detection.

[thelastbaronweeren]

1975, CMH. Flying Allegheny. DC9-50 landed very hard and wing emergency exit fell out of the plane and slid down the wing onto the tarmac. Counted myself lucky that it only happened after touch down and not at cruising altitude.
The Spirit problems as of late make me wonder if they're getting a little lax with maintenance with all the Frontier merger hubbub going on?

[JayJayAviation]

The first video is from the Spirit engine fire in Atlantic City many months ago

[RaulRodriguez-wrlq]

Scary, hope this never happens again to no airline, thankfully I haven't experienced anything yet, thanks.

[ILoveQazaqstan]

Just a normal day at Spirit Airlines...

[Demosthenas]

I don't see the reversers being deployed in this. Or perhaps cannot see in the photo but it doesn't look like they are.

[melrose]

Those Spirit boys need to ease up on the brakes and go to the next taxiway to exit.

[scpatlnow]

A three year old aircraft having this issue sounds like it is either a weird defect or Spirit pushing the aircraft to hard with faulty maintenance. At least if it is the latter, that is verifiable.