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September 27th, 2010
09:52 AM ET

Pilot: "Prepare for the worst"

Passengers on Delta flight 4951 experienced a scare when the plane, bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport was forced to make a without its right wheel. The landing gear had failed. The pilot said flight attendants told 64 passengers to “prepare for the worst," but the plane landed – sparks flying – on the runway and no one was hurt. Passengers erupted in applause.

CNN's Kiran Chetry talked exclusively with passengers Chase Benzenberg and Alessandro Albero who shot video of the emergency landing.


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  1. Al in Florida

    There's a saying among pilots that, "any landing you can walk away from is a good landing." THIS was a good landing!

    September 27, 2010 at 11:16 am |