Posted on 05/03/2006 6:11:51 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
For the second time in as many days, a Continental Airlines plane made an emergency landing at Bush Intercontinental Airport with a possible tire problem, KPRC Local 2 reported.
Flight 882 from Bogota landed shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday without incident.
"There was an unusual noise heard from the nose landing gear on departure," said Continental Airlines spokesman Dave Messing.
Emergency response crews were at the airport when the plane reached Houston.
Richard Fernandez, spokesman for the Houston Airport System, said initial reports indicated the plane might have had a problem with a tire in the landing gear. But mechanics who checked out the plane apparently didn't find anything wrong, he said.
"My understanding is that everything is OK," Fernandez said.
The flight carried 102 passengers.
Wednesday's incident came a day after a Continental Express plane made a safe emergency landing after blowing its left tires upon takeoff from the airport.
As long as they all end this way, it's not much of a problem.
A good landing is one you can walk away from...
That was the stowaway exclaiming "Aye, carumba!" when he realized that there wasn't room for both him and the gear in the wheelwell.
Was the stowaway legal or illegal?
I can't find anything about the name of the pilot on the first Continental Express plane that had trouble. One of my class mates from high school flies one of those. Does any one have the name??
I hate to say it... Bush's fault?
Runway debris?
Are they using Firestone tires?
'Course Not....it's the "As-phalt" !
From CNN Money 12/20/05 excerpt (Yeah, I know its CNN)
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Airlines are using uncertified workers for critical maintenance work, which operate without enough oversight of either the carriers or the Federal Aviation Administration, according to an agency investigation.
Northwest was not one of the airlines included in the Inspector General's study, which reported its investigators visited with American Airlines and its American Eagle feeder airline, Continental Airlines and its Continental Express feeder airline, AirTran Airways and Frontier Airlines.
David Castelveter, spokesman for the Air Transport Association, the industry's trade group said that it had seen the report but would have no comment until it had an opportunity to study it.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/20/news/fortune500/airline_maintenance/
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