Monday, February 08, 2010
Second Close Call At Yeager Airport
WEST VIRGINIA...
For the second time this year, a commercial airplane averted a crash at Yeager Airport in Charleston around 7:20 A.M. Monday morning. This time two blown tires was the cause. After skidding about 300 to 400 feet down the runway, the plane stopped short of the end of the runway...with only 500 feet to spare. The Delta flight 6121 was headed to Cincinnati with 46 passengers and three crew members onboard. In January, a U. S. Airways regional jet also aborted takeoff...that incident is still under investigation. In that mishap the airport's EMAS emergency system slowed the plane before it ran off the end of the runway.
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For the second time this year, a commercial airplane averted a crash at Yeager Airport in Charleston around 7:20 A.M. Monday morning. This time two blown tires was the cause. After skidding about 300 to 400 feet down the runway, the plane stopped short of the end of the runway...with only 500 feet to spare. The Delta flight 6121 was headed to Cincinnati with 46 passengers and three crew members onboard. In January, a U. S. Airways regional jet also aborted takeoff...that incident is still under investigation. In that mishap the airport's EMAS emergency system slowed the plane before it ran off the end of the runway.
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# posted by Homer Owens @ 10:07 AM 
