AWA emergency landing in Sedona?

[flyboydk]

My friend said he heard on the news that an AWA 737 or something like that had to make an emergency landing in Sedona and I can't find anything about it. Did this really happen?

 

[flyboydk]

found it....

Ok he just told me the wrong place, turns out it was an A320 with smoke in the cockpit landing in Farmington.

 

[ClassG]

I'm having a hard time believing an A320 can make it into Farmington, NM. We used to call it Farmpit when I flew there. Anywho, It seems too short a runway for a plane that size.

I'm sure if it's true, someone will correct me with performance figures, design limits and stories of having to remove seats from the aircraft to get it back out. But, hey, that's probably why I'm saying I don't think it can be right.

Go.

 

[350DRIVER]

Pilot smelled smoke in the cockpit. 110 pax & crew onboard. Flight originated from PHX and was suppose to land DTW . It did make the landing in Farmington. I guess AWA flew another plane into Farmington to bring all the pax back to PHX.


AIRPORT MANAGER.RICK STEIN supposebly bought em all pizza while they were waiting... ( kinda like the Mesa pizza days) !


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[hydroflyer]

I don't know anything about Farmington, but I have witnessed lightly loaded 737 and 757's liftoff from a 5,000' runway at midfield. Of course they were brand new and departing at sea level.

 

[jbDC9]

Just FYI, the original Frontier used to run 737-200s thru FMN every day, scheduled airline service. Don't imagine they had too much trouble with it.