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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