Posted on 03/12/2019 9:38:08 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- Federal authorities say a Newark-to-Houston United Airlines flight declared an emergency when an engine shut down as the plane was descending into their destination Sunday night.
Flight 1168, a Boeing 737-900, was carrying 174 passengers and six crew members when engine trouble began as the plane neared George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
One passenger told Houston media outlets that he heard a loud bang, felt a strong vibration and saw a flash of light.
"I noticed as we were coming into Houston airport, I heard sounds that I don't normally hear when I fly," passenger Leonard Weiner said.
Weiner said the captain came onto the plane and told everyone to evacuate.
Chris Morrison said he was dozing off when he suddenly heard a loud bang that woke him up. He said he saw a flash of light out of the window.
"People were starting to panic," he said. "Everyone kept hitting the flight attendant call button."
Another passenger said he saw flames coming from the engine, but a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman says emergency responders found no evidence of fire or smoke.
United spokeswoman Rachael Rivas said some people suffered minor injuries while evacuating the plane.
The emergency came the same day an Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed, killing 157 people. Another plane of the same model crashed last October in Indonesia, killing 189. The 737 Max 8 is a newer model that's part of a fleet meant to replace the 737-900 and other Boeing aircraft.
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If you fail to fly commercial bc it’s not safe: it’s the safest it’s ever been, by far.
The Houston event sounds like a bird strike.
Hah! You’re right, I’ll behave myself...back to Buzz Lightyear and the Blasterator as working theories!
Not a -MAX, not related to the earlier crashes.
"I noticed as we were coming into Houston airport, I heard sounds that I don't normally hear when I fly," passenger Leonard Weiner said.
Weiner said the captain came onto the plane and told everyone to evacuate.
You know it’s bad when, mid-air, the pilot comes inside from outdoors and tells everyone to evacuate.
I wouldn't hesitate to fly on any of Southwest's aircraft.
My son and I are pilots (me private him commercial). We were discussing this last night. He thought the NG 737’s were crashing due to inexperience (200 hrs flight time). I thought it was the new engine design....Carbon fiber and lighter-—not good in my opinion for longevity.
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Engine trouble is the concern of the engine’s manufacturer and those who maintain them.Boeing can’t be blamed for such things.
“Is someone intentionally sabotaging them or are they getting crappy Chinese parts?”
No...
Just a normal day. Things break, crews are trained for it.
The difference now is that 737’s are in the media eye, so every issue is going to get headlines for a while.
>ping<
737NG has been out about 20 years. Must be the MAX with the backlog.
On a 737?
Turkish Airlines was a matter, it seems of a bad sensor combined with autonomous controls deciding to ignore the pilot and nosing down the plane against the pilots commands, because its sensor data was telling it it was in a stall... Apparently the 737-Max8 Pilots were not ever properly informed the new plane would do this... so the pilot had no idea what was happening or how to shut it off.
Because the Ethiopian Airlines crash seems to share similar details, crash shortly after take off, but unlike the Turkish flight, no known issues prior to the takeoff... there is a concern they may have a related underlying issue... Possibly with the semi autonomous systems.
This one sounds like an engine failure, which is a completely different beast. This is a completely different plane model as well.
Understand the 737 is the most flown commercial jet on the planet, at any given moment it is estimated there are something like 1200 or 1300 of them in the air at any given time around the world.
The two crashes of the 737-Max8s may be little more than coincidental.. but certainly are disconcerting and it should be investigated, but reality is planes have issues and get diverted.. most never make much of a note... but of course now any 737 that has any problem will get more attention than it should...
Gotta keep the masses riled up to get clicks.
The “third” was an older generation of 737, and based on what the passengers have said, it sounds like a bird strike.
Haha!
Love Gary Larson’s The Far Side.
For some time to come, each time someone aboard a 737 so much as flushes the john and knocks a farmer off his tractor in Iowa, it's going to be "news".
I thought the same thing, along the perennial smarta** reply: "Too late, I already did."
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