Aircraft just observed in flight with nosegear down

shamwari

In the last 20 minutes, I noticed what I think was a B737 at around ~2000ft with nosegear still down. Other undercarriage could have been down but did not see it as it may have been up. Aircraft was black / grey / silver in appearance but could not distinguish the airline.

The aircraft was heading east out across Irish Sea just south of me here in Rush and there was a brief plume observed behind it - possibly a fuel dump.

Aircraft appear to make a turn and head back for return to Dublin but I lost visual with it. My airband scanner can't resolve any chatter as I am too far from Dublin airport.

Has anyone else witnessed this? Hopefull it was nothing serious.

Jim236

Just listening to the liveatc archive, it was the Onur Air A321 arriving from Bodrum doing a go around, as you can hear him being vectored in for final approach around 1840Zulu, and then about 25mins later you can he them being cleared for the VOR approach on 28 again. And if you look on the DAA flight information, OHY745 was delayed 26 minutes.

Unfortunately you can't hear any transmissions on the feed to suggest why they did a go around.

Ilyushin76

Looks like they came in to high, were above 3000ft fairly close to the airport while previous arrivals were below 2000 in the same position

peter1892

So that's what it was...

I saw it from Portmarnock, it looked very high on the approach to 28 - I watched it turning out towards the sea.

Saw it again a little later as I drove past the airport and all seemed normal, a/c was on finals at this stage.

shamwari

Thanks everyone for that - looks like it was nothing more than a go-around so. Is it normal for "gear down" in such situations?

ian_m

Here it is on final approach. Looks a little high.



Turning north towards Rush at 1954hrs.



http://casper.frontier.nl/eidw/

Jammyc

Does anyone know why ILS is inactive on 28?

Ilyushin76

ian_m wrote: »

Here it is on final approach. Looks a little high.

Turning north towards Rush at 1954hrs.

http://casper.frontier.nl/eidw/

That was said a few post up;)

Jim236

Jammyc wrote: »

Does anyone know why ILS is inactive on 28?

They're re-calibrating it AFAIK.

Blade Slapper

ian_m wrote: »

Here it is on final approach. Looks a little high.



Turning north towards Rush at 1954hrs.



http://casper.frontier.nl/eidw/

Possible to get all the flights real time over/in Irish Airspace?

Thanks in advance.

Ilyushin76

You can get it on http://casper.frontier.nl/eidw/ but you have to pay(5euro a month I think) otherwise there is a 15 min delay

Blade Slapper

John85 wrote: »

You can get it on http://casper.frontier.nl/eidw/ but you have to pay(5euro a month I think) otherwise there is a 15 min delay

Thanks John.

Bearcat

5500 ft abeam howth on final for rwy 28 in a 321 cant be done to min stabilized by the latest 500' agl. They spend 4 hrs coming from turkey with thumb up bum and end up going around??