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Liberal In Texas

(13,453 posts)
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 11:20 PM Oct 2016

20 minor injuries after American liner catches fire on O'Hare runway: 'Everybody started panicking'

Last edited Sat Oct 29, 2016, 12:02 AM - Edit history (2)

The right-side engine of an American Airlines Boeing 767 failed Friday during an attempted takeoff, sending debris as far as a half mile and passengers hurriedly down emergency slides onto a runway at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
Three sources familiar with the unfolding investigation told CNN the General Electric engine suffered an apparent "uncontained" failure.

The 161 terrified passengers and nine crew members scrambled to safety Friday afternoon after huge flames erupted on the right side of the plane.


http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/28/us/ohare-aircraft-incident/





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Lot of airplane mishaps lately.


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20 minor injuries after American liner catches fire on O'Hare runway: 'Everybody started panicking' (Original Post) Liberal In Texas Oct 2016 OP
This could have easily been like the 1979 crash at O'Hare LeftInTX Oct 2016 #2
A Fed Ex plane also caught fire on landing in malaise Oct 2016 #4
This is the second catastrophic failure of a GE engine within the last couple of months. davidn3600 Oct 2016 #5
People exiting with bags need to be called out and publicly shamed. Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2016 #6
Wait so panicking is better? Egnever Oct 2016 #7
Maybe you could write a paper on how having people stop to get their bags would prevent panic. Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2016 #8
 

davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
5. This is the second catastrophic failure of a GE engine within the last couple of months.
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 08:45 AM
Oct 2016

GE needs to figure out if there is a defect causing these problems.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,272 posts)
6. People exiting with bags need to be called out and publicly shamed.
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 08:54 AM
Oct 2016

I'm serious.

I saw an interview with one passenger who said it was organized chaos and some people were stopping for bags.

How fucking selfish to you have to be to spend any amount of time to grab a bag, on a burning fucking plane, while you have a line behind you also trying to exit?

Maybe make it a federal crime and part of the safety briefing.

 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
7. Wait so panicking is better?
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 09:38 AM
Oct 2016

Going to have to disagree. People need to stop believing everything blows up like it does on the TV.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,272 posts)
8. Maybe you could write a paper on how having people stop to get their bags would prevent panic.
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 03:10 PM
Oct 2016

Maybe explain how a fully fueled jet is not really in danger of having a catastrophic failure of a wing tank that could lead to an inescapable aircraft.

Yeah, we should encourage people to take their time. Increase the amount of selfish assholes that retrieve their bags! Slow it down, I say! What's the rush?

What's a couple hundred thousand pounds of fuel going to do?

Panic? Have ever even seen a drill and how flight attendants are trained to rush people off?


Video in article. Tell me how you would feel if you were 30 people back from an exit and people were tying up the line grabbing luggage. It's likely someone upfront thinking, gee the exit is right there, this isn't so bad, maybe I can grab my bag. While people in back are thinking about burning alive.

In other words assholes.

Passengers Grabbed Bags While Rushing Off Plane That Caught Fire: Witness

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20161028/ohare/ohare-american-airlines-flight-383-fire-passengers-grab-bags


The crew halted the flight, and started telling people to exit. But as they started heading to the front of the plane, away from an engine that caught fire, some passengers opened overhead bins and grabbed luggage, a passenger said.

Passenger Gary Schiavone, of Indiana, said that happened even after a safety video had played just minutes before the flight was halted.

“Thirty seconds into the safety video they say, 'In the event of an emergency, don’t grab your luggage,'" he told reporters later. "Well, right when it happened, seven or eight people tried to grab their luggage. You’re not supposed to do that.”

In a chaotic video from inside the plane, taken by passenger Hector Cardenas and originally posted to Facebook, several people can be seen opening overhead bins— many are completely empty of any bags.

No one could be seen in the video grabbing bags from the bins, but numerous people could be heard screaming, "Let's go!" and "Go, go, go!."
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