PAN PAN PAN, landing gear malfunction. American A321 EMERGENCY Landing at Los Angeles REAL ATC

10 JUN 2022
An American Airlines Airbus A321 performed flight AAL1 from New York to Los Angeles. Is on approach to the airport when the pilots report a problem: they’ve selected their landing gear lever to down, but the gear hasn’t moved.
The crew declare PAN-PAN-PAN and discontinue their approach.

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[zeushighlights]

As a nervous flyer you you get scared when you hear the noise of landing gear coming down. Experienced flyer you get scared when you don’t hear it😂

[NVFlyer]

"assuming we won't get it down, we'll need to stop on the runway for an inspection". Ummm... yeah... you'll need to stop on the runway alright.

[hotlavatube]

I recently watched a video on LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 which couldn't get their landing gear to extend due to a hydraulic leak, but then the alternate extension method also failed. Thus, after further attempts to fix it in the air, they were forced to land without a landing gear. It turns out that the reason the alternate method didn't work was a circuit breaker near the floor had been snagged or popped.

[danhildebrandt]

Would landing "belly up" not mean upside down?

[erika]

Turn left heading 236, that is what I call precision 😜

[K]

I kinda like how approach challenged their plan for 05 a little bit just to make sure american knew what it was doing lol.
There's so much cool little stuff they do in the background that all serves a purpose.

[Xanthopteryx]

"There is no problem with my brakes, i just can't get the landing gear down, so the shortest runway will work fine." =)

[Zapruderfilm]

Also just last week a Little Caesars corporate Gulfstream declared “ pan pan “ 😏🙃

[hughroney]

Belly up means the plane will be upside down!! No worries about brakes then! Passengers may not like being upside down though!! Always better to have the Belly next to the ground

[Windrider]

4:53 "No issues with braking, just the gear." Ha ha, that's funny! The landing gear won't go down, so the brakes are irrelevant!

[GollyGeeWilikers]

this channel always leaves out the best parts of the audio

[adogonasidecar]

We may be missing the audio but at no point did I hear pilot inform tower of progress/success of manual procedure to lower gear

[UncleFeedle]

American 1 is a pretty cool callsign. 😄

[Jon.......]

Where's the ending? Any problems with gears or brakes? What caused the problem?

[youngeshmoney]

I don't think the pilot understood the ATCs concern of landing on the shortest runway😂

[joeskis]

I don't get what happened. So it landed just fine with its gear down? Otherwise there would not have been any taxing.

[dashford]

As with ATC, I am also curious to know why they would prefer the shortest runway. Seems counter intuitive.

[elpusegato]

As someone who wants to get my pilot license....my main source of anxiety is that I've never been able to understand a single word of these communications. It just sounds like static. Is it clearer in practice, and the method of recording is what garbles the sound? Because I've never understood how a pilot or atc can understand a single word of what's being spoken.

[erauprcwa]

I have questions. Why use the shortest runway? When asked if this was gonna be a "belly up" landing, the pilot said "yes"... implying the gear will not be down and the airplane will be skidding on the runway, why did they reply in the affirm?

[Halli]

Odd comment by the AAL1 crew: No issues with the braking, just the gear. In one sense they are correct, the brakes are totally irrelevant while the wheels are tucked solidly in the belly of the aircraft, but with the gear up they have NOT braking at all - except perhaps for the ground spoilers.
The rest of this sequence is weird: They landed, stopped (naturally, assuming the gear was UP), inspected the gear and then proceeded to taxi to the terminal! There is something seriously weird here...