[kellyhound]

A Frontier AL Airbus A321 (N701FR, built 2015) was landing on runway 26L at Las Vegas-Intl AP(KLAS), NV when a fire broke out on its right maingear after a hard landing as it arrived at Las Vegas Airport. The aircraft was operating as Frontier Flight 1326 and was inbound from San Diego, California. There are currently no reports of injuries.

[Hogmann]

Digging a little deeper into some Aviation websites sounds like the crew had previously reported smoke in the cockpit and we're wearing oxygen masks had declared an emergency and we're making an emergency landing.
Sounds like they were having trouble communicating as well. Either they touched down too hard or too fast and blew the right main gear. The gear fire was probably not related to the smoke in the cockpit previously reported. In the video you can see the fire truck responding almost immediately and other fire trucks staged in the foreground ready to go so it was a known emergency landing that the ARFF vehicles were ready for.

[Hogmann]

From Aviation Herald
Frontier Airlines Airbus A321-200, registration N701FR performing flight F9-1326 from San Diego,CA to Las Vegas,NV (USA), landed on Las Vegas' runway 26L when large flames were seen from its right main gear. The aircraft stopped on the runway while emergency services responded and sprayed the right main gear with foam and water. There were no injuries.

The airline reported the crew smelled the smoke and declared Mayday immediately but it is unclear whether they were aware of the severity of the fire.

The FAA subsequently reported: "Frontier Airlines Flight 1326 made an emergency landing at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, after reporting smoke in the cockpit. Fire & Rescue extinguished a fire on one of the engines and passengers were deplaned by the stairs. The Airbus 321 departed from San Diego International Airport. The incident occurred around 4:20 p.m. local time on Saturday Oct. 5. The FAA will investigate."

On Oct 6th 2024 the NTSB announced they have opened an investigation into the occurrence.

It became known later that the crew donned their oxygen masks during the descent towards Las Vegas due to the smell of smoke in the cockpit, subsequently the radar contact (Mode-S) was briefly lost and recovered, the crew was not able to transmit on radio but were hearing ATC instructions, the crew acknowledged ATC instructions or replied yes/no with ident.

The aircraft is still on the ground in Las Vegas about 3.5 hours after landing.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...037Z/KSAN/KLAS

[Hogmann]

Landing gear.

[Roosta]

Hmmm, interesting sequence of events.

Good to hear that everyone was ok to spend all their money in vegas, that is after some clean underwear.

[William May]

Looks to me like they landed with the brakes locked, at least on that side gear.

[HIGHTECHDUDE]

I bet the execs at Boing are breathing a sigh of relief:
   "OH, thank God it wasn't one of ours again..."

[akham]

Not a hard landing or a fast landing. The brakes overheated due to hard braking while the aircraft was in an emergency mode where most systems were disabled. That was a response to a suspected electrical fire.

Here's some good analysis from Tom Browne: