Milwaukee-Bound Flight Prepares For Emergency Landing

Apparently the pilot seen sparks from the tail end during takeoff.
I pray for the souls on board, may they land safely.

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BOSTON -- Midwest Airlines Flight 210, scheduled to fly from Boston to Milwaukee, declared an emergency shortly after taking off from Boston's Logan Airport on Tuesday evening.

The pilot reported a potential right main landing gear problem on the Boeing 717 and has been dumping fuel for about the past hour in preparation for landing.

The plane just landed safely, thank goodness. Good job pilots.

Have they discovered what the actual problem was? Well spotted MR Pilot!

That's a good job done by the pilot. Wonder what the problem was though, hopefully just something minor was overlooked during repair and it wasn't caused on purpose.

This one, and a 747 on the west coast on the same day were both caused by blown tires on take off. Both planes returned and landed safely with no injuries on either plane. It's not common, but there are several reasons for tires to blow on take off.