Emergency Landing At JFK
American Airlines plane makes emergency NY landing
NEW YORK – An American Airlines passenger plane made a safe emergency landing Wednesday after an engine failed, sending shards of metal into housing below, aviation officials said.
The plane, a McDonnell Douglas 80, landed safely at New York's JFK Airport on one engine, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman Jim Peters told AFP. No one aboard or on the ground was injured.
"After it departed from LaGuardia Airport for Chicago earlier today, the crew reported hearing a loud noise and the number two engine shutting down," Peters said.
The plane diverted to JFK and requested emergency response teams to be ready as a precaution.
Initially pieces of metal were thought to have shot from the stricken engine into the fuselage of the plane. However, "all the metal that was dislodged from the engine went out the rear of the engine" and plunged to the ground, Peters said.
The metal pieces "embedded themselves in a roof of a building" in New York's Queens neighborhood, he said.
In January a US Airways plane managed to make a safe splash landing in the Hudson River after losing power in both engines due to a collision with a flock of birds.
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Watch the FAA now say, “Safety was never compromised”.
On what birds are FAA and NTSB now going to blame THIS nonsense [instead of airline/FAA cronyism and uninspected and under-inspected plane defects] - Flying OSTRICHES? Maybe, EMUS?
Flight 1549’s defective engines were the subject of an EMERGENCY Airworthiness Directive dated 12/31/2008, two weeks before the plane’s 1/15/2009 Hudson River bath. The A.D. is re-published at:
http://indictsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/02/nick-sabatini-big-ex-faa-chic...
Friday, February 20, 2009
“Nick Sabatini, The Big Ex-FAA Chicken”
And then there is that matter of 50 innocent people killed on February 12, 2009 by FAA and airline malfeasance, in Clarence Center, NY, near Buffalo. If you serve a FOIA request on FAA asking for all documents reflecting the names of all FAA officials and employees who attended ANY of the memorial services of the 50 victims, you will likely receive a “No Records Response” from the FAA’s FOIA unit - marking the first time the FAA FOIA unit ever answered anything truthfully.
WATCH now, as the FAA enlists hack low-level FAA employees to anonymously blog-back to this very message-board in an effort to conceal the truth and cover-up the rank incompetence of their federal “agency”. All FAA is, is a bad P.R. firm. You will know the FAA employee-bloggers because they will be the ones too cowardly to identify themselves in the text of their message-posts by their real names and job descriptions.
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland
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