Posts Tagged ‘ 757 ’

Scary Flight for Passengers, Officials Look For Answers in Americans Hole

October 29, 2010
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American Airlines, Google photo.

Jet Suffered Two-Foot Hole, Decompression By ANDY PASZTOR, Wall Street Journal Boeing Co. and federal air-safety officials are stepping up scrutiny of certain Boeing 757 aircraft after a two-foot hole opened earlier this week in the fuselage of an American Airlines jet cruising at 31,000 feet, resulting in rapid cabin decompression. The emergency, which occurred on an AMR Corp. American Airlines jet en route from Miami to Boston on Tuesday, prompted the crew and 154 passengers to don oxygen masks about...

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Night Flight Pictorial….

June 12, 2010
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Regular or De-Caf?

MarthArt…. On the all-nighter from Maui to San Francisco~ not so ordinary pics of my ordinary work space. The lights, the darks, the ice, and the nuts.  Here you go……..

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NTSB: United 757 Pilots Doused Windshield Fire Twice

May 23, 2010
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By John Croft, Air Transport Intelligence News The captain of a United Airlines Boeing 757-200 that was cruising at 36,000ft (10,973m) en route from New York JFK airport to Los Angeles the night of 16 May had to use a second halon fire extinguisher, brought forward by cabin crew, to douse a fire in the aircraft’s lower front windshield. Earlier the captain put out the fire with a halon extinguisher located in the cockpit but the fire then reignited,...

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Windshield Heater Triggers United 757 Cockpit Fire and Diversion

May 17, 2010
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Source: Air Transport Intelligence news –  John Croft A Los Angeles bound Boeing 757 that took off from New York JFK airport diverted to Dulles International airport on the evening of 16 May after experiencing a cockpit fire in cruise at 36,000ft (10,973m) early in the flight. A source familiar with the incident tells ATI and Flightglobal that pilots of United Flight 27, with 118 passengers and crew, noted the faint smell of smoke before hearing a “sizzle” and...

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