Plane returns for landing at ATL

[PHL]

According to a passenger on this flight:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE506/...1216Z/KATL/KATL

The Captain returned for landing after burning off some fuel. On the ground they were allegedly told that a pin was not removed from the nose gear, thus preventing a retraction.

How would something like this get missed?

 

[sharktooth]

According to a passenger on this flight:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE506/...1216Z/KATL/KATL

The Captain returned for landing after burning off some fuel. On the ground they were allegedly told that a pin was not removed from the nose gear, thus preventing a retraction.

How would something like this get missed?

Why would one pin gear in a non-maintenance base? Was it written up? Only part of the story, here.

 

[PHL]

Only part of the story, here.

Hence the reason I used the word "allegedly". It was hearsay from a story related by a passenger on flyertalk. The only facts are that the airplane took off, circled for about 90 minutes and then returned to land. The cited reason was because the nose gear would not retract. But why?

 

[700UW]

I believe ATL is a mtc station, unless it has been closed.

 

[sharktooth]

I believe ATL is a mtc station, unless it has been closed.

Would not a requirement to pin the nose gear be from something that might have to be in the log book?

Also, you may be correct but there really isn't that much in the way of US traffic to ATL, is there?

 

[wings396]

I don't think that ATL has Mtc. anymore. I know that Fleet Svc. is gone, and the number of Mainline flights in ATL is close to nothing. At one time, ATL was primarily all RJ's but that may have changed a bit recently. I recall when ATL was a big station for PI proir the the start of the CLT hub. I know at one time we put the gear pin in the nose wheel for pushback, but that was long ago.