Worldflyboy
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US 1419 diverted to COS on 12/2. Anyone know why?
US 1419 Diverted to COS
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I think I loaded that one....
Oh crap... I didn't leave a 2" bin gap....
Oh crap... I didn't leave a 2" bin gap....
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A U.S. Airways jet with 198 people aboard made an emergency landing at the Colorado Springs Airport just after noon on Tuesday. No one was injured.
A spokesman for the airport, John McGinley, Assistant Director of Operations and Maintenance, said a mechanical problem in one of the plane's engines prompted the flight crew to shut down the engine. The plane landed safely and taxied to a gate under its own power. Flight 1417 was en route from Philadelphia to Los Angeles when it experienced the problem. The Airbus 319 has just two wing engines.
Another flew to Colorado Springs from Philadelphia with a fresh flight crew. The new plane picked up the passengers and continued on to Los Angeles. Mechanics with specialized tools also arrived in Colorado Springs on the new plane. They will repair the damaged engine.
The plane was carrying 191 passengers and 7 crew when it made the emergency landing at 12:05 p.m.
US 1419 is flown using an A321 ... http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE1419.
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Must be a REALLY cramped 319......
No it is actually a 321--wonder if it was one of the new ones though.......
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That's a "Crew Awareness" only ECAM message that would not call for an engine shutdown/diversion. Must be more to the story.
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OMG.....I would have been on that flight had I not switched to CO!!! (My CO flight left EWR at the exact same time as US 1419.)
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smoked the motor....eng change.
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As someone who - but for the fact that US took away my bonus miles and did not give them back in a timely manner - would have been on this flight.........I am very curious as to how US handled the manner with the pax. I can only speculate, although I hope that my assumptions are incorrect.
I would not have wanted a useless voucher (which cannot be redeemed online) shoved in my face upon stepping off the replacement aircraft at 9:45PM........or.......more likely......a month later. Hopefully US gave these customers frequent updates, fed them, not charged them for drinks on the COS-LAX flight, allowed those wishing to return home to do so without a change fee (or an extra baggage charge)........and made them feel like the airline cared that they scared them to death.
I would not have wanted a useless voucher (which cannot be redeemed online) shoved in my face upon stepping off the replacement aircraft at 9:45PM........or.......more likely......a month later. Hopefully US gave these customers frequent updates, fed them, not charged them for drinks on the COS-LAX flight, allowed those wishing to return home to do so without a change fee (or an extra baggage charge)........and made them feel like the airline cared that they scared them to death.
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I think your being a bit overdramatic here. Unless the crew specifically mentioned they shut the engine down, 99% of the passengers would not even notice.
The airplane flys just fine on one engine and USAirways crews, East or West, are well trained in handling this abnormal procedure.
Hopefully the customer service side responded as well as the pilots and flight attendants did to this event.
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Looking from the flight path, was DEN not a viable option being "just up the road" from COS.
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