Piedmont Diverts to MCAS Beufort

[blzr]

Plane makes emergency landing at MCAS

BEAUFORT: Pilot shut down one engine after noticing a problem shortly after taking off from Hilton Head Island.

By Stephanie Ingersoll
Carolina Morning News

Passengers flying from Hilton Head Island to Charlotte, N.C., got an expected peek at a Marine Corps base Thursday after an engine problem forced a US Airways flight to make an emergency landing in Beaufort.

US Airways Express Flight 4363 left Hilton Head Island Airport at 12:30 p.m. en route to Charlotte Douglas International Airport. But minutes later, the pilot contacted the control tower and declared an emergency.

"The captain noticed a problem with an engine and elected to shut it down as a precaution," said US Airways spokeswoman Amy Kudwa.

The DeHavilland Dash 8 turboprop airplane has two engines. It seats up to 37 passengers and was carrying 28 passengers Thursday.

It made a successful emergency landing at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort at 12:49 p.m. No one was injured.

The passengers and crew were taken to an officers' club, said air station spokesman Capt. Donald Caetano.

A bus was sent to pick them up and take them to Savannah, where flights were being arranged for them, Kudwa said.

The airplane will be flown without passengers to a maintenance facility to find out what went wrong, she said.

The Hilton Head Island Airport has only one airline, US Airways Express and flights are operated by Piedmont Airlines.

Kudwa said all airlines have backup airplanes and future flights between Hilton Head and Charlotte should not be affected.

For more information about flight schedules, visit www.usair.com


Glad no one was hurt

 

[DrinkSweetTea]

Good Work, Beuafort has alot more room for error then Hilton Head.

 

[WSurf]

Yea, but he would have been better flying to SAV which is also next door, atleast for the pax. But anyway, job well done.. (Wonder if it was that dang Beta Lock Crap we had to install)

 

[blzr]

Yeah, leave it to the faa to find the most expensive and most rediculous way to prevent us from pulling the power levers into beta or reverse.

 

[NuGuy]

Yea, but he would have been better flying to SAV which is also next door, atleast for the pax. But anyway, job well done.. (Wonder if it was that dang Beta Lock Crap we had to install)

If memory serves, the normal flight plan from HHH to CLT runs north over the MCAS. If they were more than 5 minutes into the flight, the MCAS would have been "nearest suitable".

JMHO,
Nu

 

[phishn@daves]

Yea, but he would have been better flying to SAV which is also next door, atleast for the pax. But anyway, job well done.. (Wonder if it was that dang Beta Lock Crap we had to install)Yesterday 16:44

I was thinking the same thing when I read the first post........however, I wonder what I would actually do in that circumstance. You know the whole drill of checking if the airport is in the ops specs, having performance, etc., closest airport in point of time BS, but when it comes down to it, what wouls you really do!

I mean you lost an engine, may or not know why, may lose the other, but hey, it hasn't happened to me yet so I really don't have much of an opinion.

Good job to the crew!!

 

[phishn@daves]

PS how do you guy's quote so it looks like a quote?

I just copied and pasted and it looks like I wrote it.............and that I have a split personality the way I replied to my apparent self.

 

[FN FAL]

PS how do you guy's quote so it looks like a quote?

I just copied and pasted and it looks like I wrote it.............and that I have a split personality the way I replied to my apparent self.

Well, what i did was just clicked the "quote" button in your right hand side of your post.

So if there was guy that had something you wanted to quote six posts above the end of all the posts in the thread...you just click on that quote button in his post's window. That will open up your post screen so you can reply..when you submit your post, it will be at the end of the thread as the most recent post. Just like this one.

 

[phishn@daves]

Well, what i did was just clicked the "quote" button in your right hand side of your post.

So if there was guy that had something you wanted to quote six posts above the end of all the posts in the thread...you just click on that quote button in his post's window. That will open up your post screen so you can reply..when you submit your post, it will be at the end of the thread as the most recent post. Just like this one.

<hitting head on table>

oh!

I tried hitting the quote button under my post thinking it would let me find a post to quote, only...........it came up with more of my **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**!

Thanks

 

[j41driver]

PS how do you guy's quote so it looks like a quote?

I just copied and pasted and it looks like I wrote it.............and that I have a split personality the way I replied to my apparent self.

Just click the "Quote" button in the lower left of the individual post you wish to quote.

 

[SRMairlines]

Military Bases typically have better CFR. When I flew for PDT we usally briefed Beaufort as the emergency return for this reason. SAV would have been a better choice for the pax comfort, but for their safety I would have said Beaufort.

 

[NuGuy]

Military Bases typically have better CFR. When I flew for PDT we usally briefed Beaufort as the emergency return for this reason. SAV would have been a better choice for the pax comfort, but for their safety I would have said Beaufort.

SM,

You are correct. Plus the regs simply say "nearest sutiable" not "nearest convienent" . If you were next to Beaufort when you had your problem, and turned around and flew all the way back to SAV just so you could put the folks on a another flight, the Feds would probably have a real problem with that, especially when the MCAS has better CFR.

Nope, kudos to the PDT crew for doing the right thing.

Nu

 

[mckpickle]

I'm pretty sure the Dash uses the same series Pratts that the ATR used. I have as well have had heard of others with engine failures. They don't fail often but when they start coming apart they can send a lot of smoke into the cabin through the bleeds. There is nothing quite like the smell of something burning in an airplane, and for what ever the reason they landed where they did.


It was the captains airplane and the captains call. No one was hurt so the turnout could not have been better.
Course they still get sued by some c0cksucker

 

[Bandit60]

Yea, but he would have been better flying to SAV which is also next door, atleast for the pax. But anyway, job well done.. (Wonder if it was that dang Beta Lock Crap we had to install)Yesterday 16:44

I was thinking the same thing when I read the first post........however, I wonder what I would actually do in that circumstance. You know the whole drill of checking if the airport is in the ops specs, having performance, etc., closest airport in point of time BS, but when it comes down to it, what wouls you really do!

I mean you lost an engine, may or not know why, may lose the other, but hey, it hasn't happened to me yet so I really don't have much of an opinion.

Good job to the crew!!

When you loose an engine your supposed to land soon as possible not soon as practable. I give this crew a thumbs up. They landed the aircraft and had no one hurt. Saftey comes first than concience of passengers.

 

[embdrvr]

It's actually nearest suitable airport in point of time.

Military bases are great for emergency diverts. Firefighting and rescue equipment is usually readily available.

Best of all from the airline perspective is no media access. They can't film you or interview the "shaken up" passengers.