Midwest 717 Makes Emergency Landing in IRK

[FlyFastLiveSlow]

Anyone hear anything about the Midwest 717 that made an emergency landing in Kirksville, MO last night? Local St. Louis news said that they were enroute from MCI-DCA and hit turbulence bad enough that they thought there was damage to the aircraft. Anyone?

 

[FlyFastLiveSlow]

bump...

 

[b82rez]

Doesn't sound too exciting. The company says they experienced turb. and a "loss of altitude" and chose to land at the closest airport. One flight attendant has a bump. But they may have damaged the airplane because thay say the NTSB is investigating.

 

[FlyFastLiveSlow]

Sounds like a non-event pretty much. IRK seems like a strange choice though. 6000 x 75 and VERY narrow taxiways.

 

[Guitar Guy]

Perhaps the crew was familiar with the airport and if they suspected structural damage, it may not have been such a strange choice.

 

[ebaybob]

http://www.ktvotv3.com/Global/story.asp?S=3339896&nav=1LFrZouB

 

[FlyFastLiveSlow]

http://www.ktvotv3.com/Global/story.asp?S=3339896&nav=1LFrZouB

That has to be one of the worst "news" articles I have read in a long time. DId an intern write it?

 

[FlyFastLiveSlow]

Perhaps the crew was familiar with the airport and if they suspected structural damage, it may not have been such a strange choice.

I'm actually quite familiar with IRK, and qual'd on the 717. Unless the aircraft were about to crash, STL would have been only 20 minutes away.

 

[bafanguy]

That has to be one of the worst "news" articles I have read in a long time. DId an intern write it?

I agree that was the most useless load of horse droppings I've seen in a long time.

Any story you read about an aviation situation will read as if an "intern" had written it. These writers don't like the facts to get in the way of their reporting.

 

[FlyFastLiveSlow]

I agree that was the most useless load of horse droppings I've seen in a long time.

Any story you read about an aviation situation will read as if an "intern" had written it. These writers don't like the facts to get in the way of their reporting.

I just sent the editor a nasty gram. That is sooooo fun.

 

[Mmmmmm Burritos]

Intern? Don't knock interns, they usually are in the top of their class. This article looks like a third grader wrote it.

(MILLARD, Mo.) An airline disaster was averted late last night when a passenger jet was forced to make an emergency landing at Kirksville Regional Airport, less than half an hour after taking off from Kansas City International.

Midwest Airlines flight 490 was making what was supposed to be a direct flight to Washington D.C. when something went wrong with the aircraft.

About 80 people took a flight from hell Thursday night and lived to tell about it. Their plane managed to make a safe emergency landing Kirksville Regional Airport after the pilot reported he was having control problems with the aircraft.

Passengers say everyone onboard remained calm during the whole experience. Everyone had been told to get into the crash position to prepare for the landing.

No one was injured during last night's incident.

The airline put the passengers up in local hotels for the night and is going to make arrangements to bus them back to Kansas City sometime Friday morning to continue their trip.

 

[LXJ31]

Its weird because Columbia School of Journalism is a very tough school to get into and very expensive. Somewhere along the line "journalists" began to regard themselves in the same class as doctors, lawyers etc. smart people with advanced degrees. I read the newspaper and can not figure out why; It really is just who, what, where, why and how....its not that difficult.

That article would have been sent back to me for a rewrite in high school, let alone at a real paper.

 

[ultrarunner]

I'm actually quite familiar with IRK, and qual'd on the 717. Unless the aircraft were about to crash, STL would have been only 20 minutes away.

I was thinking the same thing. It must have been a massive crisis to go into an uncontrolled field with a "relatively" short, single runway, etc....

Heck, the long runway has a double wheel weight limit of 48,000 lbs. They could have easily been twice that weight depending upon how much fuel they tanked out of MCI.

Now, if the plane is coming apart or you can't control it, putting holes in runways is the least of your worries...

But you do have to consider "sutible".

 

[rchcfi]

That writer needs to stop smokin' the ganja. It almost sounds like he would be the one to tell his wife about a flat tire on the freeway.


"Honey, you wouldn't believe it! There I was with 18 wheelers all around me and my tire shredded into a million pieces causing me to lose control. Luckily I turned the steering wheel 23 degrees to the right and was able to do four 360s through the traffic without a scratch. As I was coming through my third 360, I saw one of the truckers giving me the thumbs up sign. You should've been there! Another disaster averted!"

Dumb Arse

 

[ultrarunner]

I just sent the editor a nasty gram. That is sooooo fun.

hehe...here is what I just sent Tim McGonigal, News Director. And I feel MUCH better


".....Tim, please read some of the excerpts below and tell me this is not some of the most ridiculous sensationalized reporting you have read:



Tragedy in the sky averted

(MILLARD, Mo.) An airline disaster was averted...

Midwest Airlines flight 490 was making what was supposed to be a direct flight to Washington D.C. when something went wrong with the aircraft.....

About 80 people took a flight from hell Thursday night and lived to tell about it...



You give journalism and accurate reporting a bad name.

First of all, there was no "Tragedy averted".

Secondly, NOTHING went wrong with the airplane....it hit some clear air turbulence for christ sake, and the crew MAY have reported some control problems.

Thirdly, what the heck is the writer reporting on when they say "FLIGHT FROM HELL". Real classy there Tim.

Oh, by the way, this was a story in YOUR newspaper.

This reporter is a GOD**CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** LOOSER! AND SO IS YOUR GOD**CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** RAG!

Give folks some accurate information and leave the drama for the tabloids....


oops...maybe I didn't realized your paper is the latter...."

 

[XTW]

I'm actually quite familiar with IRK, and qual'd on the 717. Unless the aircraft were about to crash, STL would have been only 20 minutes away.

From this, it sounds like YOU should have been on board and told the captain where to go.

For not having any facts of the situation, all of this is Monday morning speculation. Try waiting for something official first.


XTW

PS. 20 minutes can be a very long time.

 

[FlyFastLiveSlow]

From this, it sounds like YOU should have been on board and told the captain where to go.

For not having any facts of the situation, all of this is Monday morning speculation. Try waiting for something official first.


XTW

PS. 20 minutes can be a very long time.

I agree...still IRK seems like an odd choice. I was responding to a post asking if anything else was close. Virtually ANYWHERE has better CFR than IRK. Perhaps the tabloids above should wait for some facts also.

 

[AA717driver]

If they could make Kirksville, they certainly could have made Burlington or Quincy. Geez, what were they thinking? TC

 

[ultrarunner]

As we all know, there is nothing worse than being in the air and wanting to be on the ground...

and if IRK is it, well, it's it. Especially if the flight crew is experiencing flight control problems....who gives a flying fuc about rwy weight limits, avail. of CFR, etc...

..since we are all familiar with the last flight crew that experienced flight control problems and took the advice of MX, as opposed to landing ASAP...

which was the Alaskan MD-80 tragedy.

 

[FN FAL]

But you do have to consider "sutible".

OK, let's consider "sutible".

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And there were two emergencies declared by Midwest in a 24 hour period, one included a un-scheduled landing because one of it's engines was making a sputtering sound like a car, whatever that means.