Fun contest! Guess where NWA's next "incident" will be!

[GroundedBoricua]

Damn you guys are actually betting or predicting emergencies. Oh am I glad I don't work here. :blink:

 

[RobertD]

Damn you guys are actually betting or predicting emergencies. Oh am I glad I don't work here. :blink:

Well, we have the utmost confidence in NW maintenance that they will screw up often.

What you should be glad about is that you don't fly them!

 

[GroundedBoricua]

Well, we have the utmost confidence in NW maintenance that they will screw up often.

What you should be glad about is that you don't fly them!

You can say that again :unsure: Good luck to you guys

 

[groundcontrol]

Dam does this count? I didn't even get my pick in!

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) -- A Northwest Airlines flight from Minneapolis to St. Louis was diverted Friday afternoon to Rochester International Airport after experiencing engine problems.

Flight 1465 was in the air for only a few minutes when one of the DC-9's engines started giving a high temperature reading.

Northwest spokesman Darren Shannon said the two-engine DC-9 can operate with only one engine, so pilots shut down the problem engine and landed safely at the Rochester, Minn., airport.

The 106 passengers and five crew members did not report any problems.

The flight touched down at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport shortly after 10 p.m. Friday.

 

[PurduePete]

You're still good GC...that was last weeks' incident for NWA. Better hurry on getting you pick in though - the scabs could mess something up at any time!

 

[groundcontrol]

Oh cool, guess I gotta check in more often...
ok I'll go w/ mem, landing gear.

 

[flyJOE]

I'm going to head for SEA and a landing gear issue.

 

[CO738]

Wow! Time flies when you're making emergency landings!

MSP, DC9, flap problems.

On a side note, Mrs Peacock, in the study, with the rope.

 

[robbedagain]

allentown with little hydralics left

 

[flyJOE]

allentown with little hydralics left

Are you going to 'broadcast' it live for us?

 

[robbedagain]

i would except that nwa hasnt had mainline jets here for a yearif not more but i will post it if it were to happen

 

[CSAR GYRENE]

Hmm, how about "Oakland, with NLG retract problems".......OOPs, my bad...wrong airline

 

[PurduePete]

Hmm, how about "Oakland, with NLG retract problems".......OOPs, my bad...wrong airline

Funny that you mention another airlines' problem...

Is it just me, or does it seem that for every incident incurred by the rest of the US-based airlines , NW (with their scab-maintained fleet) manages to match them within a few days. Coincidence? :huh:

We should be expecting another NWA emergency landing soon...stay tuned!

 

[Kev3188]

We should be expecting another NWA emergency landing soon...stay tuned!

Here you go...Who had FAR in the pool?

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...ent...nose-wheel.html

Northwest A320 landing incident tied to cocked nose wheel
By John Croft
Flightglobal.com

In what appears on the surface to be a case of déjà vu, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating yet another Airbus A320 that has landed with its nose-wheel twisted at a 90-degree angle.

The incident occurred Saturday night (October 20) when Northwest Airlines Flight 1432, an A320 en route from Minneapolis/St Paul with 134 passengers and a crew of four, landed on Runway 36 at the Hector International Airport in Fargo, North Dakota, scraping its cocked nose-wheel tires as it decelerated to a stop. There were no reported injuries and the aircraft received “minor damageâ€￾ to the nose-gear assembly, according to the NTSB.

Though the US FAA incident report noted that the aircraft’s nose-gear “caught fireâ€￾ as the aircraft slid to stop on the runway, NTSB investigator-in-charge for the incident, Pam Sullivan, told ATI no fire retardant was needed. Sullivan however said there were “some sparks from the nose-wheel being ground down on the runwayâ€￾.

The incident bears striking resemblance to more than a dozen other A320 landing incidents, including the high-profile emergency landing of a JetBlue Airways A320 in September 2005. In that incident, the pilots received warning messages after departing Long Beach for a nonstop flight to JFK airport in New York.

The JetBlue crew ultimately decided to land at the Los Angeles International Airport with the “nose-wheels cocked 90 degrees,â€￾ according to the NTSB report on the incident. During the rollout, the NTSB noted that “both nose tires collapsed during the landing roll, and about half of the two wheels was ground offâ€￾. The investigation remains open.

An earlier JetBlue incident, in November 2002, was caused by an incorrect installation of the nose-gear cylinder’s upper cam, one of four different failure modes that US and international investigators have linked to the problems.

Sullivan says it’s too early to tell which of the four failure mechanisms, if any, could have caused Saturday’s incident.

The aircraft remains grounded in Fargo, she says, because there were no hangars large enough in which to park the aircraft to remove the nose-gear assembly, and winds had been too strong to accomplish the work outside until today.

In addition to inspecting the nose-gear, investigators will also listen to the cockpit voice recorder and review information on the flight deck recorder. Sullivan says the pilots had not yet been interviewed.

A Northwest spokesman says: “We’re waiting for a part to be shipped from the manufacturer. My understanding it will be a couple of days [before the aircraft returns to service], but certainly that will be determined by the arrival of the part.â€￾

He says Northwest is “working with the FAA on thisâ€￾, but that he has “not seen any results of that investigation at this pointâ€￾.

 

[jimntx]

Another reason to refer to it as the Scarebus.