United Flight 909 Bakes the Pax

[JimNtexas]

For more than three hours late Monday afternoon, before boarding up more than 200 passengers on Chicago-to-Denver flight 909, United Airlines officials had tried to cool down an extremely hot widebody jet at O'Hare International Airport.
The auxiliary power unit, or APU, on the Boeing 777, which generates electricity for planes when engines are shut down at the gate, was broken. Chicago's 100-degree heat and blazing sun had baked the plane's dark blue and gray skin, sending temperatures in the empty cabin soaring to at least 115 degrees....

When the jet returned to the gate to board passengers, an external air source was hooked to the plane to prevent further overheating, Glawe [the Captain] said. Because the APU was not operating, that external air had be pulled and another air source supplied to start one engine, he added. The process needed swift execution, but it did not happen....

"I couldn't breathe; I thought I was going to faint," said passenger Sandy Ball, sitting in seat 37C. She later recalled that if the crew's request for two minutes more had expired without action, "I was going to stand up and scream. They endangered our lives putting us on that plane."

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4122187

 

[Mr Wu]

Typical day in the 1900.

 

[gnx99]

Saab too.

 

[jobear]

and I paid 125 bucks for this!!!

 

[Mr Wu]

BE1900 ground cooling

http://www.amazon.com/Sharper-Image-Mini/dp/B000F5HAMG/sr=8-8/qid=1154643857/ref=pd_bbs_8/103-3945055-8824637?ie=UTF8

$4 at WallyWorld.

 

[ils2minimums]

Who wants to give the over/under on how long it takes for one of these passengers to file a lawsuit?