Continental 737 a iesit de pe pista la Denver

Titlu: Continental 737 a iesit de pe pista la Denver
Surse: http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20081220-0
http://www.realitatea.net/un-boeing-737-a-luat-foc--la-boston--in-timpul-manevrei-de-decolare_419196.html
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Data: 21 Decembrie 2008

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Status: Preliminary
Date: 20 DEC 2008
Time: 18:18
Type: Boeing 737-524
Operator: Continental Air Lines
Registration: N18611 ?
C/n / msn: 27324/2621
First flight: 1994
Crew: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 110
Total: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 115
Airplane damage: Substantial
Location: Denver International Airport, CO (DEN) (United States of America)
Phase: Takeoff (TOF)
Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Denver International Airport, CO (DEN/KDEN), United States of America
Destination airport: Houston-George Bush Intercontinental Airport, TX (IAH/KIAH), United States of America
Flightnumber: 1404
Narrative:
Went off runway 34R at taxiway WC and caught fire. Some 38 occupants were taken to hospitals.
Weather about the time of the accident (01:20 Z):
KDEN 210053Z 28011KT 10SM FEW040 SCT100 M06/M16 A2997 RMK AO2 PK WND 29027/0000 SLP202 T10561161=
KDEN 210153Z 30018G28KT 10SM FEW040 SCT100 M05/M17 A3000 RMK AO2 PK WND 28036/0123 SLP202 T10501172=

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Toţi cei 112 oameni aflaţi la bord, 107 pasageri şi 5 membri ai echipajului au fost evacuaţi din aeronavă în siguranţă.

36 de persoane au fost transportate preventiv la spital, dar niciuna nu au suferit răni grave.

Avionul trebuia să decoleze din Denver cu destinaţia Houston, Texas, dar a părăsit pista înainte de a se ridica de la sol. Motivul incidentului rămâne necunoscut.

DENVER – Passengers expecting a flight to Texas instead had to flee their burning airliner, sprawled in a smoke-filled ravine off a runway with the fuselage partially buckled and one engine and part of its landing gear ripped off.

There was no official word yet Sunday on the possible cause of the crash of Continental Flight 1404 at Denver International Airport.

The entire right side of the Boeing 737 was burned in the Saturday evening accident and melted plastic from overhead compartments dripped onto the seats.

Thirty-eight people suffered injuries including broken bones. The conditions of two people who had been in critical condition at the University of Colorado Hospital in Denver were upgraded Sunday, one to serious and one to fair, spokeswoman Tonya Ewers said.

Continental Airlines spokeswoman Julie King said fewer than seven of those injured were still in the hospital Sunday morning. She declined to comment on the types of injuries.

Five of the six airport's six runways had been reopened by late Sunday morning and airport officials didn't expect any delays related to airport operations, said airport spokesman Jeff Green.

Passenger Mike Wilson of Denver described the chaotic scramble to leave the burning plane on updates he posted on Twitter from the airport using his cell phone.

"By the time the plane stopped we were burning pretty well and I think I could feel the heat even through the bulkhead and window," he wrote. "I made for the exit door as quickly as I could, fearing the right wing might explode from the fire. Once out, I scrambled down the wing."

The 110 passengers and five crew members made it out on emergency slides, and firefighters extinguished the flames quickly, Green said.

The weather was cold but not snowy when the plane took off on a flight to Houston around 6:20 p.m.

The plane veered off course about 2,000 feet from the end of the runway and did not appear to have gotten airborne, city aviation manager Kim Day said. Debris was scattered on the runway, with the plane about 200 yards away.

The plane ended up in a ravine between runways.

Region National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration inspectors were on the scene and a team of senior NTSB investigators was en route, officials said.

Continental planned to provide a special flight Sunday for people who wanted to return to Houston. King said the airline also offered to fly family members from Houston to Denver. There was no immediate indication how many of the plane's passengers were still in Denver.

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Edi

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bine ca nu a ars cu pasageri cu tot... oricum, cred ca i-a zdruncinat serios la cat e de rupt avionu

Ouch...Nasol arata. Sunt curios cum de a reusit sa iasa de pe pista. O sa aflam dupa investigatie.

bine ca nu s-a repetat episodul de la Madrid......

Bine ca nu a fost mai rau!Da cum dracu de a putut sa se farame in halul asta?

cred ca s-a rupt trenu' cand a iesit de pe pista, a venit pe burta, a rupt motoarele si vad ca e si crapat la jumate. au avut noroc cu caru' cei dinauntru.

Fotografii din timpul intervenţiei pompierilor:
Slideshow KMGH-TV.


Edi

Parca am avut un DejaVu cu prima poza...