Jet makes emergency landing

WFSB-TV ^ | April 15, 2004 | WFSB

[LurkedLongEnough]

CHICAGO -- An American Airlines flight has made an emergency landing at O'Hare Airport.

The jet was requesting ambulances with those injured believed to be flight attendants.

The Chicago Fire Department confirms that they have sent four ambulances to an incident at O'Hare.

The flight is American Airlines 117 originating from JFK Airport in New York.

[Peach]

Keep us posted.

[EternalHope]

Whoa!

[Samwise]

uh oh.

[glock rocks]

The jet was requesting ambulances with those injured believed to be flight attendants.

That's ominous.

[traumer]

What's cookin' ?

[sinkspur]

I thought this happened yesterday. Same flight.

[Mr. Bird]

Sounds like severe turbulence.

[Alberta's Child]

Ominous, maybe. But why only flight attendants? This makes sense if there was something that only affected people who were not belted down. Turbulence?

[The Brush]

It did happen yesterday, is today Groundhog Day?

[TBall]

That makes sense.

[glock rocks]

yes, turbulence... 5 hrs ago in USA Today

[Buck72]

Looks like turbulence.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2004-04-15-aa-landing_x.htm

CHICAGO (AP) — An American Airlines flight from New York hit air turbulence Wednesday, injuring four flight attendants. The plane made an emergency landing in Chicago. Flight 117 from JFK Airport was headed to Los Angeles when the 767 experienced turbulence as it was climbing at 30,000 feet, said American Airlines spokesman Tim Wagner.

[glock rocks]

the article was 5 hrs ago... the article says Wednesday.

[avg_freeper]

You are right. I believe this is yesterday's news:

American Airlines flight makes emergency landing at O'Hare CHICAGO (AP)

— An American Airlines flight from New York hit air turbulence Wednesday, injuring four flight attendants. The plane made an emergency landing in Chicago. Flight 117 from JFK Airport was headed to Los Angeles when the 767 experienced turbulence as it was climbing at 30,000 feet, said American Airlines spokesman Tim Wagner.

None of the flight's 137 passengers were injured because the sign to fasten their seat belts was on, Wagner said.

The plane landed at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport as a precaution so the injured flight attendants, suffering bruises or strained necks, could receive medical care.

The passengers transferred to a new aircraft — a Boeing 757 — so the 767 they were on could be examined for possible damage, Wagner said.

Passengers described several seconds of scary shaking after the plane landed Wednesday night at Los Angeles International Airport about 3 1/2hours late.

"It just hit us all at once, and it just, you know, shocked me," passenger Nancy Roncone told KABC-TV. "I thought maybe the plane cracked in half."

Passenger John Kiloran described the turbulence as "5 or 10 seconds of just like crash, bang, boom, up and down. And immediately they knew something was wrong with the stewardesses. They called anyone who was a physician, they asked for a doctor to come help."

[Wright is right!]

"The passengers transferred to a new aircraft — a Boeing 757 — so the 767 they were on could be examined for possible damage, Wagner said."

I doubt that the 757 was new. This should have read, "The passengers transferred to a different aircraft - a 757 - yada yada....

I know it's nit-picky, but where do you draw the line vis a vis factual accuracy?

Michael

[steve8714]

nothing on Fox yet...

[You Dirty Rats]

In a recent flight we were experiencing turbulence and I saw a man several rows ahead of me playing "toss the baby" where he held the baby in the palms of his hands, baby facing him, and tossing the baby up just under the low ceiling of the plane (where the lights and oxygen masks are). One downdraft at the wrong second could have killed that poor kid. I was sorely tempted to yell at the jackass, but that might have brought the wrath of the FAA on my head.

People can be so stupid on filghts!

[onedoug]

From watching video of Air Force One, and also many of Bush's campaign plane shots from Alexandra Pelosi's Journeys With George (sic), it seems like no one ever sits on those flights.