Incident at CRW makes the news (must be a slow news day)

[Dont call me Shirley]

http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/eyewitness/100119_851.shtml

OK, dear readers: let's pretend you are the copy editor (do they have them in WV)?
Where do you red circle?



http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/eyewitness/100119_851.shtml

Passengers Say They Were Close to Death

Reported by: Elizabeth Noreika
Videographer: Troy Morgan/Bob Aaron
Web Producer: Elizabeth Noreika
Reported: Jan. 19, 2010 11:25 PM EST
Updated: Jan. 19, 2010 11:57 PM EST

EYEWITNESS ONLINE WEBCAST VIDEO
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Passengers aboard US Airways Flight 2495 are lucky to be alive.
The Canadair Regional Jet they were aboard came to a screeching halt just about 150 feet from the edge of a mountain.

 

[Dog Wonder]

Every day is a slow news day in CRW.

This follows an article about repeated delays from CRW-DCA because US Airways Express, Colgan, lacked functioning equipment (APUs) to keep aircraft ready to fly.

 

[DHG750R]

Not sure if you have ever flown into or out of CRW, but the runway sits atop a hill with a sharp dropoff at both ends. Had the EMAS not been there, the outcome could have been very different.


http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/...-at-yeager.html

 

[Kev3188]

You wanna see a slow newsday, check this out. It made the front page in my city. Yes, really.

Sure, it was below the fold, but still...

 

[700UW]

It was a PSA flight, not US Airways.

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

Even major papers/TV/radio don't know the difference between Express and mainline.

Headline was a bit over the top.

"Passengers aboard the plane said the plane accelerated but then the pilot slammed on the breaks."

Or is that how they spell it in WV? 🙂

 

[jimcfs]

Local media down here has been all over this. The WV State TV news that runs weeknights at 5:30 led off with this story last night, complete with pax interviews and lots of pics.

Supposedly the initial estimate to fix the E-Mas system (concrete/foam buffer at the end of the runway) was "over $1 million", but saw this morning in Ben's "Today in the Sky" Blog on USA Today, that reports are now saying "several millions". My question is who has to come up with that much change? Will PSA be responsible for some, as it was their flight?

Has anyone heard why they aborted takeoff? That's been one missing piece in this puzzle that no one seems to be talking about.

 

[BuffaloJoe]

It was a PSA flight, not US Airways.

Yes you are correct, but when US Airways owns PSA, its just legal hogwash.

 

[700UW]

They have their own operating certificate and are a separate company, they are owned by US Airways Group, the holding company, not US Airways the airline.

 

[FWAAA]

Supposedly the initial estimate to fix the E-Mas system (concrete/foam buffer at the end of the runway) was "over $1 million", but saw this morning in Ben's "Today in the Sky" Blog on USA Today, that reports are now saying "several millions". My question is who has to come up with that much change? Will PSA be responsible for some, as it was their flight?

Drivers who hit guardrails are responsible for fixing them - makes sense that if you break it, you fix it. Much cheaper than paying the estates of the charred bodies that might have resulted had the e-mas system not been there. Plus an RJ worth several million was saved.

 

[SparrowHawk]

They have their own operating certificate and are a separate company, they are owned by US Airways Group, the holding company, not US Airways the airline.

If EMAS wasn't there would the customers and flight crew be any less dead if it were a Mainline flight?

 

[Piedmontegheny]

Plus an RJ worth several million was saved.

They're saying that the plane hardly has any damage at all. They have to pull the gear for inspection and the engines ingested a little of the styrofoamy stuff. That's about all that's reported. I haven't heard why the takeoff was aborted yet.

 

[Pi brat]

Drivers who hit guardrails are responsible for fixing them - makes sense that if you break it, you fix it. Much cheaper than paying the estates of the charred bodies that might have resulted had the e-mas system not been there. Plus an RJ worth several million was saved.

The EMAS was probably worth more than the CRJ! Glad nobody was hurt. Just goes to show you that no matter who operates it, if it has US Airways in front of the express, as far as the public is concerned it's US Airways.

 

[Kev3188]

Drivers who hit guardrails are responsible for fixing them - makes sense that if you break it, you fix it.

They are? I'd never heard of that, though I don't exactly make hitting guardrails part of my daily routine. Does the city/state/county send you a bill?

 

[nethan]

They're saying that the plane hardly has any damage at all. They have to pull the gear for inspection and the engines ingested a little of the styrofoamy stuff. That's about all that's reported. I haven't heard why the takeoff was aborted yet.

It was already been ferried back to Clarksburg for work.