https://www.smh.com.au/business/consume ... 52t3j.html
A Vietnam Airlines flight was within one minute of landing at Melbourne Airport on Thursday morning when air traffic controllers were shocked to discover the Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s landing gear was still up.
Air safety officials have launched an investigation into the incident, regarded as extremely serious because the plane came so close to the ground without landing gear having been put down.“During approach to land, Melbourne Air Traffic Control advised the crew that the aircraft’s landing gear was observed not to be extended. The crew initiated a missed approach,” the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said in a statement on Thursday.
Flight tracking website FlightRadar24 shows the service approaching Melbourne Airport just after 8am on Thursday morning. The flight dropped as low as 675 feet, the website indicated, and then rapidly ascended to 5000 feet after aborting the landing. The flight then circled the airport and landed safely just before 8.30am.
Oooooooooer !! That could have been expensive.