Problems with Thomas Cook's leased B757 today?

[SN1203]

A Privilege Style B752 was noted above Ghent this afternoon at 4.500ft with its landing gear & gear doors out (registration EC-HDS).

After taking off from BRU, the plane flew at low altitude towards Ghent, turned back to Brussels, made a little circuit and performed an overshoot above runway 02 (presumably for visual inspection of the gear) before making a safe landing.

Does anybody know what was going on? Presumably linked to hydraulics and/or a gear issue?

[Outsync]

Landing gear issue, I was actually just on the tarmac when it aborted the first landing climbing very steep with alot of noise! hln.be posted an article about it too.

[sean1982]

It's called a go around. It's always steep and always noisy. As for that article ......

[Outsync]

It's called a go around. It's always steep and always noisy. As for that article ......

Yeah, just saying always an impressive sight!

[sean1982]

Especially on an always overpowered B757

[airazurxtror]

In french :

http://www.lavenir.net/article/detail.a ... 8_00333833

[Zorba]

And Dutch:
http://www.standaard.be/cnt/DMF20130708_00650768

Gotta love how people like to overreact

[HQ_BRU_Lover]

Had to laugh when reading the article this morning:
- fueldump on a 757
- above the Zoniënwoud (in the approach path of BRU's RWY 02)
- "schepen van x van gemeente x" was on board, if you're "schepen", you're aviation expert?

[-KoeKe-]

Aircraft is now standing at Lufthansa Hangar