NTSB to investigate Midwest MD81 with Obama on it....

[General Lee]

NTSB ADVISORY
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National Transportation Safety Board
Washington, DC 20594

July 7, 2008

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NTSB TO INVESTIGATE INCIDENT INVOLVING MIDWEST AIRLINES
PLANE CARRYING SENATOR OBAMA

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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an
incident at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in which
a chartered Midwest Airlines airplane carrying Senator
Barack Obama made an uneventful precautionary landing due to
a suspected flight control anomaly.

At about 9:30 a.m. CDT this morning, a McDonnell Douglas MD-
81 airplane (N804ME), operated by Midwest Airlines as Flight
8663, diverted to St. Louis, Missouri, during a flight from
Chicago, Illinois to Charlotte, North Carolina. There were
no injuries to the 48 passengers and crew.

NTSB Chairman Mark V. Rosenker has designated Todd Fox as
the Investigator-in-Charge for this incident. Fox is
expected to arrive on scene this afternoon.

Post-flight inspection of the airplane revealed an in-flight
deployment of the aft emergency exit slide within the tail
cone.

Preliminary information indicate that the crew disconnected
the autopilot during climbout from Chicago, while being
vectored around thunderstorms, when they reportedly felt
elevator control forces that were heavier than normal. They
therefore elected to make a precautionary landing at St.
Louis. After landing, it was learned that the aft emergency
exit slide had deployed within the tail cone. The tail cone
did not separate from the airplane.


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[scoreboardII]

bet the pilots are republican.

 

[180ToTheMarker]

Didn't Clinton deploy his slide in a tailcone a few years ago? Crazy dems.

 

[GuppyPuppy]

Didn't Clinton deploy his slide in a tailcone a few years ago? Crazy dems.

You've got to send that one to Jay Leno!!!

Too funny.

Cheers!

GP

 

[Champ42272]

I may be wrong, but in a DC-9 (I flew a -10 series in another life), can't the slide and cone be deployed by raising a handle behind the aft Flight Attendant seat?

I would be willing to bet some "reporter" "accidently" lifted that handle in flight, either on that day or a previous flight. That door is hardly ever opened by any crew during normal operations.

Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

Champ 42272

 

[b82rez]

I may be wrong, but in a DC-9 (I flew a -10 series in another life), can't the slide and cone be deployed by raising a handle behind the aft Flight Attendant seat?

I would be willing to bet some "reporter" "accidently" lifted that handle in flight, either on that day or a previous flight. That door is hardly ever opened by any crew during normal operations.

Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

Champ 42272

Media use those stairs during every boarding and deplaning.

If you were to open the aft stairs door while it was armed, the slide would inflate and the cone would jettison. In this case the cone stayed on.

 

[Whataburger]

Just a shame that the pilots didn't tell him that the only way to possibly survive was to jump out of the plane at altitude and that the slide would break the fall.

 

[MountainFreak]

Just a shame that the pilots didn't tell him that the only way to possibly survive was to jump out of the plane at altitude and that the slide would break the fall.

Funny, but I've found that fat-cat Republicans make the best chocks

 

[Donsa320]

I may be wrong, but in a DC-9 (I flew a -10 series in another life), can't the slide and cone be deployed by raising a handle behind the aft Flight Attendant seat?

I would be willing to bet some "reporter" "accidently" lifted that handle in flight, either on that day or a previous flight. That door is hardly ever opened by any crew during normal operations.

Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

Champ 42272

I think you may be confused. The "handle" is on the unpressurized side of the aft cabin door. The aft door cannot be opened "inward" if pressurized.

DC

 

[TZtoSWA]

Just a shame that the pilots didn't tell him that the only way to possibly survive was to jump out of the plane at altitude and that the slide would break the fall.

The real shame is I work at the same company that someone who makes a comment like this does. This is yet another example of why our 10% give us a bad name.

 

[Whataburger]

That's what's great about this website. One person says a comment is funny and one gets his panties in a jam. I did not put in on my original post, but it's a joke, douschbag.

 

[McNugget]

That's what's great about this website. One person says a comment is funny and one gets his panties in a jam. I did not put in on my original post, but it's a joke, douschbag.

Seriously, don't get so bent out of shape. I guess Reagan was an a$$hole when he got shot he looked at the surgeons at the hospital and said, "I hope you are Republicans." before they operated on him

Grow a sense of humor.

 

[Whataburger]

Seriously, don't get so bent out of shape. I guess Reagan was an a$$hole when he got shot he looked at the surgeons at the hospital and said, "I hope you are Republicans." before they operated on him

Grow a sense of humor.

I'd be an a$$hole if I got shot too!!! You wouldn't? I'd probably be more of one when the perp. got let out of jail.