Every so often it doesn’t seem like the airline gods are cooperating with even the airlines. British Airways (BA) just had two back-to-back emergency landings and Virgin was faced with a passenger who slashed his throat. Not a stellar day.
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We take a look at the news. In Washington, DC, an annual Easter tradition, the Peeps Diorama sponsored by the Washington Post comes up with a fascinating TSA scene. BA and its flight attendant union agree not to strike, for the time being. And AA claims noting was wrong that made passengers and crew members faint and sparked an emergency landing. It must have been aliens.
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About half an hour into the redeye flight from Maui to Los Angeles last Wednesday, the cabin lights abruptly flashed on. But that didn’t wake me up. It was the captain’s announcement that jarred me to alertness. “We have a fire in the forward galley.”
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Delta emergency landing in Florida, is your hotel on the beach? Canada eases security restrictions on tools and weapons smaller than 2.4 inches in length
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Flight # QF32 was far more serious than the initial press reports. The engine explosion was monitored by the cockpit, but an alert off-duty pilot spotted additional problems being broadcast from a tail-mounted camera. That was the beginning of a string of failures, however the pilot and crew managed to land the plane safely.
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Sometimes you learn things the darnedest ways. Until a USAirways LaGuardia to Louisville commuter flight was diverted to Philadelphia for an emergency, possible terrorism landing I had never heard of this word — tefillin. Evidently the flight attendant on US 3079 had never seen one either.
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For those of you who missed this played out on TV, here is some remarkable video of the evacuation of American Airlines flight 31, which returned to LAX yesterday because of smoke in the cabin, shortly after takeoff.
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United Airlines Flight 637 from Philadelphia to Chicago made an emergency landing at Pittsburgh International Airport after encountering a pressurization problem.
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