Posted on 08/18/2006 9:39:23 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
Friday, August 18, 2006
Alaska Airlines flight diverted to Seattle
An Alaska Airlines flight had to make an unscheduled stop in Seattle Friday morning after the plane lost cabin pressure, according to Sea-Tac Airport spokesman Bob Parker.
Parker says Flight 690 left Vancouver, B.C. just after 7 a.m. and was heading to San Francisco when the Boeing 737 lost cabin pressure. The plane was diverted to Seattle and landed safely around 8:20 a.m.
Fourteen people, including at least three crew members, were being treated by Sea-Tac medics for very minor injuries, Parker said.
daily diversion bump
Does anybody get to their destination anymore?
Cabin pressure sucked out by lunatic lefty moonbat?
A palne or the whole alrline?
Eventually.
Might help find my Samsonite.
Same difference.
LOL!
Anyplace I need to go, I'm walking.
Alaskans have no choices in airlines. Its Alaskan Airlines or swim. Every time competition comes to Alaska, they slash their prices and run at a loss to crush the competitors. Then they go running to the Feds for a bail out because they have the "mail" contract and the Feds have to guarantee that mail can be moved. Its criminal; they've been sued before and lost and yet they still do it. With no competition, they don't have to provide the services that other airlines do. Plus they have a LOT of maintenance problems. I would LOVE to see something done about this monopoly.
We lost cabin pressure at 33k flying from Denver to Atlanta. Little pop, and kind of "wtf" look on everyones face. We then descended to 11k in 60 secs. One of the scariest moments in my life -- partly because of a big "WTF" but more eerily, because there wasn't a word said by a person in the whole cabin -- just people looking at each other bug-eyed.
When we leveled off, the Captain came on the intercom and said (in that always Captain Chet Chester-way), "You may have noticed that we descended rather rapidly back there." Four Bubbas in unison replied aloud, "No Shit, Sherlock."
Captain Chet went on to explain that we needed to descend that fast so as not to alarm us passengers with O2 masks popping out... Yeah, thanks a pantload, Chet.
Just move to Kodiak Island and be done with the rest of the world. Fishing is like a dream there.
Their luggage doesn't. Luggage, people...What's the diff?
I think they should bring back the Pony Express.
No, but I read from another link that most all the passengers were pulling their pants down while chanting "ESKIMOS!! ESKIMOS!! SEAL!! SEAL!! ula ULLLAAA!! ESKIMOS!! PIE PIE!!
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