Delta Jet Returns to DFW After Problem

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Delta Jet Returns to DFW After Problem

DFW AIRPORT Feb 23 -- Mechanics for Delta Air Lines were checking an MD-90 aircraft after it made an emergency landing Wednesday morning at DFW International Airport.

Flight 887 left DFW around 10:30 a.m. bound for Ontario, California when pilots discovered mechanical problems and returned safely to DFW.

Delta officials said the crew reported a problem with the aircraft's "trim."

Earlier this month, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered all airlines to inspect the stabilizers of MD-80 and MD-90 aircraft in their fleet

http://www.wfaa.com/wfaa/articledisplay/0,1014,5553,00.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 23, 2000

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(A few more details, same horizontal stabilizer story)

Airliner makes emergency return to Dallas-Fort Worth

GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) -- A Delta Air Lines MD-90 airliner returned to the Dallas-Fort Worth airport for an emergency landing Wednesday with a problem in its horizontal stabilizer, the same device suspected in the Alaska Airlines crash.

Delta Flight 887, carrying 80 passengers, had just taken off for Ontario, Calif., when the pilots discovered apparent mechanical problems, landed and returned to the gate, Delta spokesman Willis Uggen said.

Nobody was hurt, he said.

Maintenance workers were sent to check the plane and passengers were placed on other flights, Uggen said.

The Federal Aviation Administration ordered airlines to inspect horizontal stabilizers on MD-80s and MD-90s after the Jan. 31 crash of an Alaska Airlines MD-83 off the California coast, which killed 88 people.

On Monday, a Continental Airlines MD-82 jet traveling from Las Vegas to Cleveland with 146 people on board made an emergency landing at South Bend, Ind., after the crew reported trouble with wing devices that controlled the aircraft's rolling movement. No one was injured.

Source: The Akron Beacon Journal; Akron, Ohio

http://www.ohi o.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/033363.htm

-- Lee Maloney (leemaloney@hotmail.com), February 24, 2000.


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