Frontier Airlines A321 flight deck smoke and emergency landing in Las Vegas Saturday October 5, 2024

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Frontier Airlines A321 flight deck smoke and emergency landing in Las Vegas Saturday October 5, 2024

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/frontier-airl ... =114534255

A Frontier Airlines flight appeared to catch fire during an emergency landing at Harry Reid International Airport on Saturday evening.

The flight from San Diego to Las Vegas was in the process of landing when the pilots detected smoke and declared an emergency, Frontier said.

Frontier Flight 1326 made a rough landing with flames sparking from the wheels Saturday.

After fire and rescue crews extinguished the blaze, all 190 passengers and seven crew members deplaned by the airstairs, according to the airline.

No injuries were reported, and passengers were bussed to the terminal, Frontier said in a statement on X.

"The cause of the incident is currently under investigation," the airline said in a statement to ABC News.

Flight 1326 "experienced a hard landing," Harry Reid International Airport said in a statement.

A ground stop was in effect until 7 p.m. Saturday, and the Federal Aviation Administration is continuing to investigate.

The National Transportation Safety Board announced Sunday morning that it's launching an investigation into the emergency landing.

VASAviation ATC recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPiNC5JpEYs

Juan Brown summary of what happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFv6QG8qJ-w
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Interesting choice of words in that article, leaving it unclear if the hard landing caused the emergency or the emergency caused a hard landing.
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Re: Frontier Airlines A321 flight deck smoke and emergency landing in Las Vegas Saturday October 5, 2024

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digits_ wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 9:11 pm Interesting choice of words in that article, leaving it unclear if the hard landing caused the emergency or the emergency caused a hard landing.
The video imbedded in the article has a passenger claiming that they were unaware of any issues until seeing fire trucks…

Make me doubt that the crew briefed the pax and imho… that is almost criminal. WTF (if that turns out to actually be the case)

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Re: Frontier Airlines A321 flight deck smoke and emergency landing in Las Vegas Saturday October 5, 2024

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TeePeeCreeper wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 12:05 am
digits_ wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 9:11 pm Interesting choice of words in that article, leaving it unclear if the hard landing caused the emergency or the emergency caused a hard landing.
The video imbedded in the article has a passenger claiming that they were unaware of any issues until seeing fire trucks…

Make me doubt that the crew briefed the pax and imho… that is almost criminal. WTF (if that turns out to actually be the case)

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I'd give the crew the benefit of the doubt. It's not uncommon to see pax with wireless headphones on with music blasting or asleep, not hearing any PA
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Re: Frontier Airlines A321 flight deck smoke and emergency landing in Las Vegas Saturday October 5, 2024

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It became known later that the crew donned their oxygen masks during the descent towards Las Vegas due to the smell of smoke in the cockpit, subsequently the radar contact (Mode-S) was briefly lost and recovered, the crew was not able to transmit on radio but were hearing ATC instructions, the crew acknowledged ATC instructions or replied yes/no with ident.

https://avherald.com/h?article=51e940ef&opt=0
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Re: Frontier Airlines A321 flight deck smoke and emergency landing in Las Vegas Saturday October 5, 2024

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if you go watch the resident youtube aviation ambulance chaser(s) there is a lot more info.

The aircraft apparently had smoke in the cockpit, rat was deployed on landing, and they were not responding on the radio, but apparently acknowledging ATC by pushing the ident button. Juan points out a lot of interesting details.

Gonna be a very interesting read when the initial report comes out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFv6QG8qJ-w
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