Another AA emergency (EGCC-KORD)

[Ben Franklin]

Hope everyone is ok over in Manchester, UK.

According to reports, the Captain reported problems with his "wind brakes" (reporter's words, not mine) after 20 or so minutes into the flight. Came back and landed and had some tires blow out.

Hope everyone is ok.


Sincerely,

B. Franklin

 

[30West]

According to reports, the Captain reported problems with his "wind brakes"

Insert fart joke here!

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

Reported as a hydraulic problem over on PPRuNe.

 

[BLing]

Winds brakes.... Thats funny! Its almost as bad as the reporter on FOX News today when reporting on that MD80 with nose gear issues in Miami. He said The CA is going to "feather the airplane" as much as he can on touchdown." Damn reporters...

 

[pilot772]

Winds brakes.... Thats funny! Its almost as bad as the reporter on FOX News today when reporting on that MD80 with nose gear issues in Miami. He said The CA is going to "feather the airplane" as much as he can on touchdown." Damn reporters...

you know Bling, "feather" it kinda like I did going into GSP when we flew

 

[BLing]

you know Bling, "feather" it kinda like I did going into GSP when we flew

Yes my captain,I remember quite well :beer:
BTW, just looked at the logbook. It was the same plane I was just contracted to go retire the other day.

 

[AA717driver]

I'm sorry but breaking wind on an international flight CAN be an emergency. (Especially if you're down to your last pair of undies... ) TC

"Never trust a fart on international."
Capt. C. Cundiff, TWA, Ret.

 

[Longhorn]

There is only one way to get rid of the smell if you break wind.....fly faster than the SPEED OF SMELL!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M27YdA_JQo

 

[737 Pylt]

There is only one way to get rid of the smell if you break wind.....fly faster than the SPEED OF SMELL!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M27YdA_JQo

So if you fart and nobody hears it, does it still smell?

737

 

[Don Carty]

I charge people to smell my farts.

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

I charge people to smell my farts.

Way to go Don, it's good to see that you haven't forgotten the true AMR spirit of shared sacrifice.:laugh:

 

[ATRCAPT]

Insert fart joke here!

You beat me to it!

 

[On Your Six]

Chalk up another example of bungled customer service. Aren't FA's trained on how to use the medical equipment (including O2)? Difficult situation but still embarrassing in terms of response time.

RIP.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Struggling to breathe, American Airlines passenger Carine Desir asked for oxygen, but a flight attendant twice refused her request, the woman's cousin said. Carine Desir was having trouble breathing and asked for oxygen, her cousin says.

"Don't let me die," the cousin, Antonio Oliver, recalled Desir saying after the attendant allegedly refused at first to administer the oxygen Friday. But Desir did die, Oliver said Sunday in a telephone interview.
He said the flight attendant finally relented but various medical devices on the plane failed, including two oxygen tanks that were found to be empty and what may have been a defibrillator that seemed to malfunction.

American Airlines confirmed the flight death and said medical professionals had tried to save the woman. A spokeswoman for the airline, Sonja Whitemon, wouldn't comment Sunday on Oliver's claims of faulty medical equipment on the plane. Desir, who had heart disease, died of natural causes, medical examiner's office spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said Sunday.

Desir had complained of not feeling well and being very thirsty on the Friday flight home from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after she ate a meal, according to Oliver, who was traveling with her and her brother, Joel Desir. A flight attendant gave her water, he said.
A few minutes later, Desir said she was having "trouble breathing" and asked for oxygen, but a flight attendant twice refused her request, Oliver said.
He said other passengers aboard Flight 896 became agitated over the situation, and the flight attendant, apparently after phone consultation with the cockpit, tried to administer oxygen from a portable tank and mask, but the tank was empty. Oliver said two doctors and two nurses were aboard and tried to administer oxygen from a second tank, which also was empty.

Desir, of New York City, was placed on the floor, and a nurse tried CPR, Oliver said. A "box," possibly a defibrillator, also was applied but didn't function effectively, he said. Oliver said he then asked for the plane to "land right away so I can get her to a hospital," and the pilot agreed to divert to Miami, 45 minutes away. But during that time Desir collapsed and died, Oliver said."Her last words were, 'I cannot breathe,"' he said.

Desir, 44, was pronounced dead by one of the doctors, Joel Shulkin, and the American Airlines flight continued to John F. Kennedy International Airport, without stopping in Miami. The woman's body was moved to the floor of the first-class section and covered with a blanket, Oliver said. Shulkin, through his attorney, Justin Nadeau, declined to comment on the incident.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

Hey,
I was flying with a comic captain(monkeyboy). He said check this out, and reaches up and turns the flows almost all the way down. Leans over, lifts his leg and lets one go. I can hear it over the Garretts. The he says look back, I didn't see him turn the flows back up full. Since the outflow valves are in the back of the J32, I am watching as the fart hits row one and works its way back to the back row. The pax would wrinkle their noses and look from side to side, finally looking at me! I thought he was gonna pass out he was laughing so hard.
AhhhAAA the good ole days at TSA
PBR