United Airbus A321neo Has Wild Landing In Orlando, Loses Nose Wheel

I think United had a screw loose.

You sure it's a pilot filming? Ops people film alot.

I saw the ground stop and knew Ben would come through w/ the reason.

That was just a bad landing. Any landing that puts that much pressure on the nose wheel is all wrong.

After AA's bad landing on the XLR at LAX, maybe a little refresher training is in order for the 321.

I congratulate you on a level-headed and seemingly accurate post

Wow two landing incidents just days apart with new A321 aircraft. What is going on with the Airbus A321?

I live in Orlando and there was a nasty storm that blew through at this exact same time with some very intense wind gusts. Would not be surprised to see a report that wind gust impacted this landing attempt.

In the 1990s I was on a Continental Lite DC9 taking off from Columbia, SC. I was reading as we made our took off run, but looked up when there was loud murmuring from other passengers. I looked out the window just in time to see a wheel rolling and then bouncing into the infield. Kinda' surreal. The pilot spoke over the intercom to tell us, "Yes, that was one of our right side main gear wheels you saw departing the aircraft, but there are two wheels per side and we think the other one is in place." We made a low pass over the tower and confirmed that the second wheel appeared ok, so we flew on to New Orleans. We made the gentlest landing I've ever experienced.

Definitely filmed from a vehicle, not a plane cockpit. No plane has a continuous pane of glass like that all the way across.

It wasn't just windy it was near tropical storm force. My wife and I had just landed at around 1130 and watched the wind whipping up sand like a sandstorm. On our way home down Heintzelman Rd just east of runway 35L I saw a in incoming flight suddenly TOGA right around that same time 1232 had a hard landing and a whole traffic jam of planes lines up for that runway. Wind was blowing our suv around and I thought it was crazy they hadn't done a groundstop right before I noticed the TOGA.

It's not the airplane, it's the driver.

Simply a foul weather flying incident folks. Coincidentally the pilot dropped the nose as a gust of wind blew the aircraft from port to starboard. The sudden lateral thrust upon the front gear was sufficient to cause the detachment of one nose wheel.

Absolutely nothing Greg, luckily they were not Boeing Max thingamajigs, yes?

Absolutely Tim, simulator time is always a refreshing experience …. 🙂

United are angling for investment from Elon Musk by showing that anything Ryanair does, they can do better!

Yes clearly every airline with A321s better get their pilots in the sim. /s

Horrible storms. Flew into Orlando a few hours after this and after a several hour delay getting there. The airport was insane. Had to walk over people just to get to the train. This was 6pm and I saw gates where flights scheduled at 1pm were still delayed.

Looks like it was filmed by a SY plane waiting for takeoff https://www.flightradar24.com/2026-01-18/17:33/2x/28.40,-81.32/14

I live in Orlando, and there were some really strong wind gusts around the time of this incident. Over 30+ mph winds. There was a steep temperature drop as well, from 72°F to 45°F within 90 minutes, starting around noon (just to show you how strong the winds were). That likely contributed to this incident.

Yes VF, UA are just above Ryanair in the world rankings, however, both lost ground last year, will they improve this year or what? …. 🙂

I wonder if the person filming knew something wasn’t right, which is why they started filming.

Looks to me like a blown crab correction. The plane was noticeably crabbed left for crosswind. Pilot kicked the rudder to straighten probably a bit too late. That increased the lift on left wing and slammed the right main gear and the right tire of the front gear to the runway. Right tire separated. Happens.

As someone who pilots the NEO. My initial reaction is simply a lack of additional flare to arrest the descent. The NEO will punish you with those huge PWs. Just an opinion. Only after full investigation will anyone know. But it does look like the aircraft hit at a higher rate of descent than normal.

Yes RF, I get it now after further reading. Thank you for pointing me towards another interesting school day.

Or maybe it's because the XLR, like all Airpuses, is a flaming bag of dog crap.

And I'm sure, as Tim would say, Delta has the best pilots and training program, unlike its competitors. Delta's safety record and quality of pilots is simply premium in comparison.

Actually ORD, as much as you would like to berate Airbus, pilot miscalculation and foul weather are the more likely culprits. As Tim, suggested …. more simulator time might be needed.

Anyway, I’m sure that Ben, will appreciate your click contribution.

part of the reason for the delays was because of this incident. The runway obviously had to be closed which meant that departures and arrivals backed up pretty quickly. There was a ground stop and ATC metering of flights for several years.

Airpuses are what comes out of a dog's ass, only on fire. It's Eurotrash like you.

lol ….. ORD, we all appreciate how you came up with that foul comment, as you only have dog’s excrement holding your ears apart. Foul minds produce disappointingly foul responses, yes?
However, thank you for the clicks ORD, Ben, is sure to appreciate them darlink …. Xxxx

CORRECTION...

for several HOURS.

Capt Steeeve has his take on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGCXM0hgWWU
He said with the wind reports, he would have landed elsewhere and also the pilot botched the landing.

MCO has two runways on the west side of the airport (one for takeoffs, one for landings) and two on the east side of the airport (one for takeoffs, one for landings). So for those of you who understand these kinds of things, why would a ground stop be needed on the opposite side of the airport from where this incident took place?

because 3 minus 1 is less than 3

really?

Trump will sort this out quickly.

Saying it louder for those in the back:

WE
DO
NOT
CARE
ABOUT
WHAT
HAPPENS
IN
SEPPOLAND.