ANOTHER MD-90 Horiz-Stab Emergency Landing!

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WhooooooooEEeeeeeee! So many "coincidences"

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Feb 23, 2000 - 04:50 PM

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.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), February 23, 2000

Answers

Oh my...thank you for the post.

-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), February 23, 2000.

Thanks, Ashton & Leska, for the post. The number of these stabilizer problems seems to be growing daily. Don't feel like hopping on any planes anytime soon. Glad we don't have to fly for business purposes anymore. Feel for all those folks who have to; they must, understandably, be somewhat nervous right now.

-- Lurkess (Lurkess@Lurking.XNet), February 23, 2000.

Thanks for the post. Just another reason to hate frying...I mean flying.

-- PA Engineer (PA Engineer@longtimelurker.com), February 23, 2000.

Yep! Us cautious types'd notice this if we had any flights scheduled. Just watched "Planes, Trains, Automobiles" last night ;^)

Our apologies to the 2+ Yourdynamites who posted this event before we did. We had just gotten back online after a wild bike ride, saw it on AP Breaking News, did a search for "airlines" "Dallas," read thread titles for today -- nothing lept out, so we posted -- same time as somebody else.

Can't even imagine the adrenaline spurts for all these passengers ~ ~ !

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), February 23, 2000.


Gee Three in one day! Just keep reposting and will have a record of some sort!

TNX

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-- Squirrel Hunter (nuts@upina.cellrelaytower), February 23, 2000.



ANOTHER
ONE?!!

O-H-M-I-G-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-W-D!!


This was no jackscrew accident!

It was a shark!
A shark called Y2K!

When are they going to wake up
and test the damn computers??


-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), February 23, 2000.

And I'm planning on flying on one next week...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), February 23, 2000.

Well Monk - just be sure to call in when you land safely!!! we don't want to be worried about you. (momma talking)

-- Laurane (familyties@rttinc.com), February 23, 2000.

Monk, you must be mad! Really, happy & safe landings.

-- Lurkess (Lurkess@Lurking.XNet), February 24, 2000.

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