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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on September 15, 2011, 10:20:31 AM
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The story is a day old, but I was wondering if the DUmmies got out the tin-foil hats on this one. And guess what, they did.
Ian David (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-14-11 02:50 PM
Original message
Justice Ginsburg aboard plane evacuated at Dulles International Airport (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4994549)
Edited on Wed Sep-14-11 02:51 PM by Ian David
Source: Washington Post
Posted at 01:01 PM ET, 09/14/2011
Justice Ginsburg aboard plane evacuated at Dulles International Airport
By Ashley Halsey III and Patricia Sullivan
{This post is being updated}
United Airlines Flight 586, scheduled to depart Dulles at 12:34 p.m. for San Francisco, was evacuated Wednesday afternoon after it reportedly experienced an engine problem.
The plane departed Gate C19 at 12:41 p.m. and the incident happened prior to takeoff. The plane had not made it to the runway.
“The pilot noticed something wrong with the engines and decided to evacuate the plane,†said Kim Gibbs, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. “The emergency chutes were deployed. Then the passengers boarded shuttles and returned to the terminal.â€
A report from Reuters quoted airports spokeswoman Tara Hamilton as saying there were reports of three injuries, with one person transported to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and the others refusing treatment.
SoapBox (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-14-11 03:14 PM
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2. Ok...so I would have questions...
"An" engine problem? Which engine?
And it could not be shut down? Extinguishers used? Yes, they were heavy fuel but...?
Pictures on the news just now, showed the right side of the aircraft, with ONLY the over wing exits open and slide...The A/C Right doors 1, 2, and 3 were not open (closed)...there was one slide on the ground under the wing tip (looked to be a door slide), so I don't know if that one had been detached and the door it came from closed.
SO...'splain please. Another "hair trigger" incident?
The reason I question all of this is...that it is "generally" more dangerous to evacuate an aircraft (various injuries when leaving the plane and using the slides) than it is to simply shut everything down and be towed to an area where stairs could be used. Yup, people get hurt in evacuations.
Inquiring minds!
Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-14-11 03:42 PM
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5. maybe (speculation on my part) the bleed air was putting fumes in the cabin?
It will be pretty simple for the NTSB to figure out
SoapBox (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-14-11 03:54 PM
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6. Could be...
In fact, now that you mention it...the B757 is horrible about fume intake, particularly in the back half of the a/c.
Of course, by time the NTSB issues it's findings, well, how much time will have passed? *snarkage about how long it takes*
meow mix (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-14-11 03:31 PM
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4. HAARP!
here we go again (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/images/tinfoil.gif)
Javaman (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-14-11 04:21 PM
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7. did thomas call in the threat? LOL nt
bongbong (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-14-11 07:16 PM
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8. Ruth
Good, she avoided being Wellstoned.
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Good, she avoided being Wellstoned...yes it is...first time she has not been stoned in years. Shame she does most of her high flying while on a supreme court bench.
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Wellstone was handsomer.
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Is Soap Box nadinbryszhnskzy's sock puppet? It sounds just like her.
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Is Soap Box nadinbryszhnskzy's sock puppet? It sounds just like her.
Could be, that's a lot of knowledge about fumes. She was probably burning up the google.
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Is Soap Box nadinbryszhnskzy's sock puppet? It sounds just like her.
Uh oh. You might be on to something, sir.
Good catch!
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Exactly how would it benefit us to have her Wellstoned when the teleprompter in chief would just give us a younger version of the same thing? The Wellstoning will commence after the 2012 elections DUmmy.
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Exactly how would it benefit us to have her Wellstoned when the teleprompter in chief would just give us a younger version of the same thing? The Wellstoning will commence after the 2012 elections DUmmy.
From the way things are, I'd say the democrats have spent the last 80+ years "wellstoned".
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Is Soap Box nadinbryszhnskzy's sock puppet? It sounds just like her.
Her "SO...'splain please" did sound like nadin. If she starts readying stuff it'll be a sure giveaway.
Or maybe nadin was impressed by the chris_ takeover the other night and is trying to do the same only slowly. One DUer at a time.
Just kidding CC powers that be.