Allegiant Fire..again?

[Green Banana]

10/8/2010, For the second time in two months, an Allegiant Air jet has had an engine catch fire while it was still on the ground. A fire broke out on an Allegiant Air plane at the Sanford Airport this morning. The fire is now out and everyone got off safely

10/7/2010, An Allegiant flight G4-485 from Grand Forks,ND to las Vegas,NV (USA) with 152 people on board, was climbing out of Grand Forks cleared to climb 10,000 feet when the crew requested to level off at 5000 feet indicating they might need to return to the airport. A short time later the crew declared emergency reporting a number of smoke detectors had gone off

9/14/2010, An Allegiant Air Boeing MD-82 carrying a college football team to a game in Missouri struck runway end lights and appears to have overran the runway before taking off

8/13/2010, A Florida-bound Allegiant Air jet with more than 100 passengers aborted takeoff from Roanoke Regional Airport this afternoon when an engine caught fire, an airport spokeswoman said.

No Flame or Pun intended, but is this a normal amount of problems?

 

[StopNTSing]

Funny, all I ever hear from the "smart-guy" airline analysts is how great Allegiant's business model is for operating all these really-cheap-to-acquire MD80s.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Ah, nothing burns like a DC-9. (...and derivatives)

http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetGOjg/VJET.gif

 

[Mr.B]

Funny, all I ever hear from the "smart-guy" airline analysts is how great Allegiant's business model is for operating all these really-cheap-to-acquire MD80s.

No kidding. Youll never see my family on that airline.

 

[Mookie]

The FAA hopefully will take this into account when granting etops...

 

[Ameriagle]

The FAA hopefully will take this into account when granting etops...

Pretty sure the FAA doesn't just give out ETOPS approval!

 

[Dornier 335]

8/13/2010, A Florida-bound Allegiant Air jet with more than 100 passengers aborted takeoff from Roanoke Regional Airport this afternoon when an engine caught fire, an airport spokeswoman said.

That's one airport I'd hate to abort the t/o run.

 

[crxpilot]

No kidding. Youll never see my family on that airline.

So I guess that means you won't be flying delta or american anytime soon either?

 

[crxpilot]

Funny, all I ever hear from the "smart-guy" airline analysts is how great Allegiant's business model is for operating all these really-cheap-to-acquire MD80s.

Funny all I keep reading about southwest is how they missed a bazillion inspections and required maintenance on their planes.

 

[Green Banana]

So I guess that means you won't be flying delta or american anytime soon either?

I don't think this is a MD thing, it is a company thing. Do DAL's and AMR's catch fire this much?

 

[Green Banana]

Funny all I keep reading about southwest is how they missed a bazillion inspections and required maintenance on their planes.

..and how many caught fire?

 

[tpaYankee]

10/8/2010, For the second time in two months, an Allegiant Air jet has had an engine catch fire while it was still on the ground. A fire broke out on an Allegiant Air plane at the Sanford Airport this morning. The fire is now out and everyone got off safely

10/7/2010, An Allegiant flight G4-485 from Grand Forks,ND to las Vegas,NV (USA) with 152 people on board, was climbing out of Grand Forks cleared to climb 10,000 feet when the crew requested to level off at 5000 feet indicating they might need to return to the airport. A short time later the crew declared emergency reporting a number of smoke detectors had gone off

9/14/2010, An Allegiant Air Boeing MD-82 carrying a college football team to a game in Missouri struck runway end lights and appears to have overran the runway before taking off

8/13/2010, A Florida-bound Allegiant Air jet with more than 100 passengers aborted takeoff from Roanoke Regional Airport this afternoon when an engine caught fire, an airport spokeswoman said.

No Flame or Pun intended, but is this a normal amount of problems?

7/25/2010 ... Allegiant Air flight 645, en route to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway airport from Billings Montana diverts to Flagstaff Pulliam Airport due to an engine fire.:angryfire

 

[Dan Roman]

The FAA hopefully will take this into account when granting etops...

You do have to question if they are ready for ETOPS flying.

 

[grog_sit_reserv]

.and how many caught fire?

None, but there were a lot of cracks from them missing inspections.

And it sounds to me like the crews involved did good work and should be congratulated. As I recall Allegiant has a pretty stellar safety record.

 

[temcgrew]

No kidding. Youll never see my family on that airline.

Would you have put your family on TWA, Midwest, ATA? Do you interview the pilots or check the MX history of the airlines you put your family on?

Stupid statement I'm assuming your looking for a reaction.
Sorry to break the news to you but apparently this had nothing to do with MX issues but was pilot error. It was an unfortunate event that happened to a good, safe guy.