Posted on 12/23/2004 12:02:53 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
Plane Plows Into Snow Bank At Metro Airport
Passengers Deplaned, Brought To Terminal
POSTED: 12:14 pm EST December 23, 2004
UPDATED: 12:40 pm EST December 23, 2004
Passengers were deplaned after a Northwest Airlines flight hit a snow bank at Detroit Metropolitan Airport Thursday morning.
The flight hit the snow bank sometime after 11 a.m. NWA representative Thomas Becker said 124 passengers were on the plane at the time.
"We had a flight from Detroit taxiing to the runway bound for Houston, when one of the engines struck a snow bank that was off to the side of a taxiway," said Becker.
No injuries were reported. The passengers were brought by bus to another terminal. They were expected to be back en route to their destination by 12:45 p.m.
(Excerpt) Read more at clickondetroit.com ...
Musta snuck up on 'em!
Do they have runways bound to Las Vegas, Orlando, or New Jersey as well?
It would be nice if these postings had the city name in the heading.
By the way, our Northwest hub in Memphis, had most NW flights canceled due to lack of deicing equipment for the vast number of planes they have here.
I'd want a different plane, pilot, airline.
What a strange word deplaned is. We don't de-car, de-boat. Plus I can't read the word without a cartoon bubble popping up in my head of a midget yelling DEPLANE, DEPLANE!!!
It ain't the lack of equipment, but the expense of Glycol IV.
A plane also got stuck in the mud in Virginia.
They say it is a pilot error.
http://www.wftv.com/news/4020872/detail.html
RICHMOND, Va. -- An American Airlines plane preparing for takeoff went off the runway and became stuck in mud Thursday at Richmond International Airport, shutting the two main runways and delaying nearly all incoming flights, an airport spokesman said.
American Airlines flight 1239, bound for Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, was mired at the grassy juncture of the two main runways around 8:20 a.m., airport spokesman Troy Bell said. The runways handle 98 percent of all air traffic, he said. A third runway used for regional jets was still operational.
None of the 129 passengers or five crew members on the MD-80 was injured, Bell said. Passengers were being evacuated and Bell said he expected it to take a couple of hours before the plane could be freed from the mud.
It appears the pilot "underestimated his turning radius" and drove off the runway, Bell said. He said weather was not a factor.
Reminds me of the time I flew into a small airport at a ski resort. I was so busy concetrating on getting my wing-tip past a snowbank that I forgot the other side and caught a Coke machine with the other wing-tip. Stupid baseturd!
Archangelsk.....I've saved that pdf report. I just read the radio transcript of the Pilot and F/O who were sitting on the active runway and found it incredibly interesting. Tonight I'll read the rest of the report. Thanks!
Aeronaut....Would you please add my name to your Aviation Ping List? Thanks you.
You're in.
If I was scheduled to fly today in that weather... I'd be staying home instead.
Yuck!
Good grief.
I've been trying for two days to get out of central PA. I was supposed to fly to Cincinnati yesterday at 12:30, but the flight was cancelled. They rebooked me on a 6am flight this morning, but that one was also cancelled. Now I'm shooting for another 12:30 flight tomorrow. That's two less days to spend with my family. :(
You know why Northwest has those bright red tails on their planes, don't you?
Geez....
Underestimated his turning radius, indeed...
Sorry that's funny....
"It ain't the lack of equipment, but the expense of Glycol IV."
Well, I dunno.
Other airlines that had only a few flights to service and seemed to keep operating.
Northwest has maybe 50 flights at that time of the evening.
5 to 7 PM is a very busy time at MEM.
Memphis has icing like this, maybe once every several years.
Well, I was on a flight out of Toronto where it took 25 minutes to taxi from the gate to the runway. At one point the captain got on the PA and announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you are enjoying our drive to Montreal."
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