Posted on 07/10/2019 12:38:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In a statement, Delta Air Lines said Flight 1425 was diverted “after receiving an indication of an issue with one of the aircraft’s engines.”
An earlier statement from Delta called the failure a “possible incident” — an instant classic in corporate understatements. The company declined to say whether passengers were in danger or describe what went wrong. Media reports indicated Delta offered passengers $30 food vouchers as they waited for a flight out of Raleigh, and CNN reported the plane was back in service Wednesday after the engine was replaced.
The aircraft involved is an MD-88, the oldest in service by any airline, which is slated to retire next year, according to Bloomberg News. Coined by pilots as “Mad Dog,” the notoriously loud, cramped and antiquated planes are so reviled by pilots that Delta has offered to fast-track young pilots to the captain’s chair if they agree to fly them, Bloomberg News reported.
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Piece of garbage article intended to scare people.
I got a chuckle out of that.
(If the plane landed safely, then why the vouchers?) Surprised they didn’t charge extra for the excitement.
IIRC, the first CAPCOM comment from NASA after Challenger exploded was something like "obviously a major system malfunction."
I guess an "issue" is better than a "major system malfunction," even if the issue is that one of the engines is radiating in the visible spectrum.
Yeah, that’s the engine’s way of telling you to reduce RPMs.
I was on an MD88 a couple of years ago from Atlanta to Raleigh (coincidentally) that had a compressor stall at cruising altitude. I thought we had hit something - they turned back to Atlanta and put us on a different plane.
Sounds like the retirement of the MD88’s can’t come fast enough.
To be clear, it was the engine that had the problem, not the MD-88 airframe.
The maintenance logs should reveal if the mechanics cut any corners on servicing the engine.
The stupid passengers making videos instead of moving forward and away.
If that engine let go, there would have been multiple fatalities.
You do not stand near an erratic turbofan.
First thing I thought of. Nasty stuff. Very nasty.
MD 88.
That’s the one that had the elevator jack screw stick on an Air Alaska flight over CA. Talk about horror in the cabin. Think they flew for half an hour doing loops and such before it crashed, killing everyone onboard.
If Disney built a thrill ride like that, the passengers would have to pay $150 admission to ride it.
That my have been an MD83.
My recollection is that MD80 has engines at vertical tail section. How did passengers see the engine malfunction?
It’s the MD 80 series. Same basic airframe, same design on elevator.
We lost an engine almost exactly half-way between Honolulu and Anchorage. It was either a DC-10 or 747. Terrifying at first, but we limped back to Hawaii, spent the night, and went home the next day.
“Pete’s Dragon” was the in-flight movie, and just starting when we heard the “boom!” and the plane shook. Forty years later if I hear the theme music, I’m in that plane again.
I was on an MD-88 Delta plane 2 months ago that had to return to the airport we just took off from (ATL). Smoke in the cabin...alarms going off and everything. No big deal, right? Those planes are an accident waiting to happen.
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