Posted on 12/01/2024 7:49:59 PM PST by george76
An American Airlines Boeing plane that was headed from Chicago to Las Vegas was forced to divert back following a mid-air emergency.
On Sunday, a Boeing 737-800 jet has to return to O’Hare airport after receiving multiple door warning light indications.
The airline stated that the return was the result of a “possible maintenance issue.”
“Flight 1047 returned to ORD for a possible maintenance issue,” an American spokesperson told Fox Business. “The flight landed safely and taxied to the gate.”
According to Flightaware, the flight took off a second time for Harry Reid International Airport just after noon, and was expected to land around 2 p.m. local time on a replacement aircraft.
Make sure you’re buckled up. That suction is fierce.
It’s going to take a while to get rid of all those DEI hires...
And do not sit near emergency exit door with cell phone in shirt pocket. On a previous Boeing aircraft flight, one man’s cell phone in shirt pocket was sucked out when the door broke off from the plane during flight.
Pretty scary headline for a fairly common occurrence.
Boeing’s problem was accountants running the company instead of engineers. Boeing sub-contracted too many parts of the aircraft out to cheaper sources.
How do you expect to get clicks without a scary headline?
Sounds like another plane that didn’t get the phantom doors fixed.
I still can’t believe Boeing has such problems. It’s crazy, and dangerous.
Is Boeing using recycled Yugo parts or what?
Only Alaska and United fly 737 max 9's which had the "phantom doors" issue. This was an American Airlines 737-800.
I don’t doubt it. He was lucky.
I agree, terrible headline. It was not ‘forced’ to return—it was simply a precautionary return for a maintenance issue, not an emergency.
Yugo parts might work better.
I was on board a 737-300 in 1994
We were delayed at least 45 minutes from T/O because they couldn’t get the door sealed light to illuminate
Boy was it a good sound to hear those engines start though once they got it fixed
This is a maintenance issue. It’s an airline problem, not Boeing.
I was on an American flight a few weeks ago that got diverted because one of our engines quit during flight. I didn’t get a scary headline!
My German made car...for which I paid a fair amount and which only has 40,000 miles on it...occasionally shows the “check engine” light. After a few days it goes out. The car is running fine.
So when is the last time you checked your engine? Maybe it is just lonely.
Boeing has a lot of problems to answer for but this was described as a maintenance issue so first we need to know how long the plane has been in service and who conducted the maintenance. There have been more than a few issues with Boeing aircraft that were the fault of airline maintenance crews. Just sayin......I still won’t be flyin anywhere on anything.
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