it is great isn't it. i wish they had made the congressmen stay on the plane all day as some have done.  


--- On Wed, 7/23/08, Cleveland, Kyle E. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Cleveland, Kyle E. <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: I just love this kind of irony!
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 3:29 PM
> Emergency landing forces congressmen to miss aviation vote
> 
>  
> 
> A Houston-Washington Continental Airlines B737 carrying
> seven Texas
> congressmen among its 128 passengers made an emergency
> landing Tuesday
> (7/22) in New Orleans after the jet lost cabin pressure.
> The congressmen
> were trying to make it back to Washington in time to vote
> on an aviation
> safety bill. The vote was scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Oxygen
> masks deployed
> and the plane did a steep dive to compensate for lost
> pressurization.
> The plane landed safely at Louis Armstrong New Orleans
> International
> Airport, and the congressmen missed the vote.
> 
>  
> 
> The emergency landing was the third time in two days a
> plane was
> diverted over cabin pressure issues. A US Airways flight
> and a Northwest
> Airlines flight were diverted to airports in Kentucky and
> Wisconsin on
> Monday over cabin pressure issues. AP
> <http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2008-07-22-new-orleans-emergency
> -landing_N.htm> 
> 
>  
> 
> BTW, we also had a Northwest Airlines 757 make an emergency
> landing in
> the middle of the Dayton (OH) Airshow this past Sunday.  It
> was a
> Tampa-to-Detroit flight and one of the engines shut down at
> cruising
> altitude.  Lot's of folks in the crowd thought it was
> part of the show
> because a bunch of fire/rescue equipment met the plane as
> it landed.
> Funny for us on the ground; probably not so funny for those
> folks on the
> plane.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Kyle
> 
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